I´m engaged in a Iraki Freedom diorama, displaying a Bradley, and two Hummers in an urban environment, but I need some scenery, mainly advertisements or shops signs, and I would like to know if there is any commercial kit covering this subject.

For a lot of the Japanese electronic goods, you can just cut their ads out of magazines, and glue them to signs, coat with a flat finish, and weather. For signs in Arabic, I'll have to look through my pics later (it's 4:47 am right now) and see what I have. Of course, someone will find some on Google for you as well.

Stormovik,

Check out Verlinden's web sit in the super value section. They have stuff for WW II but can't remember if there is stuff for Iraq or not. If not just google a search for the stuff you need.

Hope this helps you out some.

there is an Belgian firm making sheets with all sorts of pictures in 1/35 scale, but I'm at work now, and I don't have my trusted "fav" with me lol
Pm me so I don't forget ,:)

DioArt and Echelon stuff should be useful for such a project.

Echelon/Spearheads Frontier website
DioArt sets

HTH
Frenchy

Mig productions do some very nice modern accesoreis Check them out in the Tamiya Model Mag.

Thanks to all. I know Mig Productions, in fact I bought its burned car and lampost to add some scenery to the dio, and I also made with plaster of Paris some Jersey barriers, but the problem is that it´s a little bit difficult to make a sign saying Grocery or Pharmacy or anything else if you don´t know arabic, with those horrible twisted letters. And having in mind that the dio is dated in 2003 I have to suppose that actual pics of Bagdad, for example, couldn´t be too acurate because when the war went off, Iraq has been under UN embargo for more than 10 years, so they couldn´t have available many goods that know are.

As promised:


The above pic also works for Matt's question: Do people in Iraq eat ice cream?

A lot of signage appears to be homemade:



As usual, there are many more. It just takes a REEAAALLY long time.

Of course, if you want to head into the "suburbs" then most shops simply say...shop.
The writing in white says Dukan, or "shop."



Some are a little more imaginative. I have no idea what this says...

Another "dukan."

Note how the letter "kaf" differs from the first one.



These are literally everywhere. I've got some of mud huts somewhere...

Anyone who wants to use these, you're welcome to them.

Ah. The Mud Brick Dukan. Be sure each wall is labeled at least three times...

Thanks to all, the photos will be very useful. It´s easy to get photos of vehicles in Irak or anywhere else, but those pics are centered, of course, in the vehicles, so usually you don´t get good details from the scenery.

Some good ideas in there, Can you get any more. Thanks again for the photos there great.

Happy Modeling
Tom

Yes, I can.

Anything in particular?