Well, this must be my fastest project ever... 19 hours from start to finish. The kit is Dragons M2A3 Bradley and the figures are Modern US Army from Caesar Miniatures. They are not very good molded but have the right equipment for Iraq or A-stan. The Bradley and soldiers are OOB but the rest of the scene is scratch built , with resized water- and MRE boxes which I downloaded from this site a long time ago. I'm thinking of calling this dio simply "Contact!" since I tried to display a Bradley with dismounts fighting insurgents somewhere in Iraq. More pictures in my Photobucket .









Erik

I BOW DOWN TO THE 1/72 DIORAMA GOD!!!!!!

Outstanding work there Erik. The figures didn't turn out that bad from what you say. I need to get a couple of those sets. Do you have any close ups of the figs?

Thanks Pete. I don't consider myself a God though...
I have only some pics of the figures without paint.





There are all in all 42 figures in the set including a couple of .50 snipers and soldiers patrolling. The set has potensial, but the moldings are not very good.

Erik

Just a pic to give an impression of the actual seize of the diorama.



Erik

Hey, in 1/72 you really can't tell as long as they look the part. All I have for 1/72 modern figures are the two sets from Prieser, but they are not wearing current stuff.

Here is the rest of the guys Pete. There is about 3 or 4 of each type in the set. Bent weapons are easily fixed after a few seconds in boiling water.



Erik

Yup, gonna have to get a set or two of those.

excellent work!

its quite embarrassing to see your accomplishment on the 1/72 scale bradley when i failed at the 1/35

Really an excellent job on such an obviously small model I'd need some thick glasses to work something like that , my hats off to you Bob

Hi Erik
How did you find the build (i bought this kit it had 2 upper hulls and no bottoms returned/ swaped for a challenger 2 with BAR I had hoped to build as a M2?? involved in the 1st thunder run.

Regards
Chris

Hello Chris.
The build was straight forward with no real issues at all. The parts fit excellent and it was basically just fun to build it.

Erik

Excellent work... especially in that small scale!

Did you buy that street sign or did you just print it yourself? Those Arabic letters don't mean anything. It's just like writing in English.. "AXYZBM". I'd hate to think something like this would be sold commercially

Hisham

The sign is from a download on my computer. Nice of you to translate it Hisham

Erik

Excellent scene, Erik! You've captured the urgency and danger of the moment. Well done! 19 hours? Man, that's gotta be a record. Again, well done. Best regards, Dave

nice job on the dio. the scale and the time it took awsome

Looks great! I couldn't do that in 19 days, let alone 19 hours! Very well done!

Very nicely done. I always prefer simple dios, they draw more attention to the vehicle, which looks great.

If you ever want to update your Mosul sign to an actual one, feel free...

Thanks, but I guess it will stay the way it is. As mentioned this was a not very well researched oob quick build to pass some time. However, when I come around to build a 1/35 scale Bradley those signes will be usefull.

Erik

yeah not bad for 1/35...OMG IT 1/72 .....one word NICE! weathering on brad is very good too.

very nice