"Midnight Raid in Mosul" Dio & Write-up....

yeah ok, let's move on.

Quickly! Ahh the memories!

But yeah, that sounds great! 2 primed and ready, out of how many? And I know you had that one finished right? Or was that an old stand in. It’s coming together, don’t worry, the last few steps of a project are really the hardest and the longest for me, so I know the feeling, it’s almost like busy work. The details make the scene but can really be a PITA sometimes.

Yikes!!! haha yeah, good memories, but glad to be moving on

And I'm sure it was the 62!

Hey!! At least you can tell the spec ops are American and the enemy is Russian- very nice Cold War piece. A few things one could pick at- but we all know how nice yours look now, so I'll say nice starting point!

So! My first dio (no pictures- never took any- thank god) had- get this set up. A T-62A and a WWII Russian “Jeep” vs an M3 Half Track and a Walker Bulldog.

Grass? Ground? Nah- Spray paint over plaster mesh, a few HO scale trees... gravel, didn’t paint anything, except the skin tones (real heavy) and some silver scratches over anything metal...

Cold War meets WWII and uhh... yeah I’ll end with that I was a kid, my dad was into Model Railroads, it was a strange mix... haha

alright p.o. remember i promised to show ya pics from my very first dio...lol...well, here they are...dont laugh too much!!!

this is just some random made up special forces scene!

please ignore all the dust it has been sitting in my basement for a few years now!!

hope ya like it...haha...i know model's gonna come back and go "what the ^&$#^

oh well, gotta learn by doing so...i learned alot with this one...lol.

I still cannot see any photos.

 Probably because they are blocked on my gov computer here at my duty station.

Will attach photos of a recent street projec,t you can see the buildings along side it.

Let me know if you can see or not.

 If not I can email them to you.

btw mao, here is my NON finished dio...still much more work to be done.

ignore the hmmwv in the pic as well, i may put one in but not with a tow launcher (thanks model/p.o.!!) .

Ok I see.

If you need any pictures of real streets in Mosul or buildings to help out your projects, I have tons. We have several road projects and the QA pictures of before during and after are pretty interesting. I would be interested to see if your dio's include the poor wiring and construction as a touch of realism.

This has given me an idea of doing one on my own to show a before and after project. We have been relying on pictures, but I think our CG and even the press would get a better idea if they saw it in 3D.

No opsec violations as the projects are complete and we have moved on to others.

Where can I find photos of this build? The military I work with want to see how authentic it looks, compared to how it really looks here in Mosul.

Cant wait to see this, how can I?

camo junkie wrote:

what exactly is a peq-4? sounds like a weapon but not sure?!?!

It's the little rectangular IR laser aiming devise thinger that’s mounted to the Picatinny rails on the handguard. I think it’s a little higher tech than that because it’s huge compared to a reagular laser... It can probably blink and do all kindsa fun stuff. Actually- here ya go! It’s on Wiki

That’s a PEQ-2 dunno bout the 4... probably just a different model name for the same basic thing. From what I can tell, it’s two lasers, one like an IR flashlight, the other like a high power beam to aim...

Let me know how your casting goes! Always wanted to get into that, now that I picked up some nice OOP Dragon figures I'm going to have to learn