G'day everyone, well i just went looking in the incoming campaign, and apparently, i am signed up to it i didnt sign up myself thats for sure, but anyway i thought hey, what the heck, might as well participate!
I have decided to do a diorama of the FSB coral, an aussie fire support base in the vietnam war, that was attacked by NVA and VC over and over again, and was nearly over run once.
The dio will have a 105mm howitzer of the 102 field artillery, and some soldiers from the 1st and 3rd RAR.
as the main assault on this base was at night, i was thinking it would be good to make this a Forced Perspective dio, this way i could even have some LED's in the 105mm's barrels, that could flash every now and then to simulate the firing of the guns, and if i could figure out how to rig up some smaller ones, i could even get the troops firing their SLR's(rifles)
i would have some NVA running towards the guns.
This should be some good fun, i have included a sketch of what it will hopefully looks like
Cheers!
If possible i will have sound effects to, lol, no not the ones in the pic, explosions and the crack crack of small arms, any ideas of how i could achieve this?
Cheers again!

damn, ok try again. if the pic dont work heres the link as well


My concept
Cheers!

Ola Dave

You sketch isn`t visible but I have sorted out why......... You had Http:// twice
Here is your sketch

Heheh, thanks bob, well theres the basic idea, entrecnhed fellas are aussies, the foxhole with the m60 fella shooting has a camo net over it, little thing behind the 105mm is a tent, and in the other dugout, one of the blokes is calling in support, which came to us on that night in the form of artillery from nearby fire bases, spooky gunships, and other light aircraft, the troops were given the order to get below ground level at one stage of the night, as they called in artillery fire onto the base itself, as the enemy had overrun a part of the base and captured a 105mm, but we soon took it back. cheers!

Ola Dave

It looks like an interesting dio mate. Keep us Updated on the progress.
I like the fact that Steve Irwin is manning the 105 Howitzer. Are we going to See any crocs in this dio???. I like the fact that you are thinking of a forced perspective dio. Might be really interesting.

Again Keep us updated.

thats a very good idea.DML's NVA sapper team can be a good choice for attacking units.

Cheers guy thanks!
Graywolf i am 1 step ahead mate, got 2 packs lying ready to use! great minds think alike!
cheers

Engin not only seems to know but really knows by heart every single figure set that DML has released....You see good friends care ...

Hey David! The simplest way I can think of to include sound effects would be to have a wav file playing on continuous loop from a laptop loudspeaker. Battlesounds can be picked up easily from a google search?

Vinnie

I did something similar for Cover-up Campaign. I had a mortar pit instead of 105s. BTW I think if you could get a Crocodile Hunter Crikey soud effect that would be hilarious!!!

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/photos/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=3663

only if it goes bang and crikey!

Thanks guys, hmmm, i dont think i will go and get a laptop, but thanks anyway.
I was hinking put the sound on a cd, then copy that onto cassette, then put it into a lil cheap walkman?
Cheers guys, thanks

That sounds ok. Might be a bit much asking people to put your headphones on though? Lol

Vinnie

Howdy lestweforget,

Hmmmm, .....don't know what to say about you're being 'signed-up'. Your name is indeed in the Official Campaign sign-up page, but the only way for that to happen is for you to click on the little yellow 'enlist' button, hmmm.......
Anyway, for the record, I'm darn glad you decided to continue on with the Campaign instead of opting out! Just another testament to your courage and tenacity. And, if I read your story right, obviously part of your personality. Thank you sir for your service!

Now, onto your "Incoming!!" project.
Your diagram looks good (although your stick people need to eat more. I know that 'John Wayne' is a pain to operate sometimes, but get the can open and feed those people! ). And tackling a night setting is a difficult task. I know, I have a 'Nam dio sitting unfinished on the shelf because of the difficulty factor (a night laager with two M577's parked back to back sharing a tarp, and two M113's facing the other points of the compass and the tree-line, with perimeter chainlink set up).
So, many kudos to you for taking it on.
Just please keep us all posted, O.K.?

TreadMeister.

Will attach the walkman to speakers teacher!
Thanks for your encouragment treadhead, i think it will make the "night scene" part alot easier seings this is going to be a shadow box type diorama, thats another thing i wanetd to correct, i said forced perspective, i meant shadowbox, there will be no differnt scale kits in this one maybe in 10 years time
But anyway im glad you guys are looking forward to it, will keep you posted as soon as i begin, cheers!

I don't know how available these are in Australia, but here in the states, my 8 year old daughter loves going to a store called "Build A Bear" where children are able to design their own teddy bears, bear style, clothes, etc... And I believe they have sound chips that can be installed in the bear's paws... They have many pre made sounds, songs, sayings... But I think they may have one that you can record 5 seconds or so of your own voice (or sounds)... Just give it a squeeze and they play back... Find something like that and you have a very cheap ($5 or so) and easy sound effect... No need to tie up an expensive walkman... And no headphones either... If this sounds interesting to you, let me know and I will research it more for you... :-)

I have to admit I'm looking forward to this since I'm a devoted Aussie fan and have some ties to "down" there.

As for the sound, if you have a portable CD player at hand you could create a disc with a few tracks of gunfire and whatnot and then make it loop. That way no buttons would have to be pushed once it's set up. I'm prolly going overboard here but I couldn't help suggesting.

Keep us posted mate.