Looking promising. I like seeing Vietnam dioramas.

Some suggestions, if you prime the groundwork and then paint/airbrush it, it generally blends in a lot better. At the moment it is a touch out of scale (kinda looks like you have just taken the dirt from the garden...). The figures look good and the anti tank obstacles are a nice addition.

Are you planning on doing some jungle vegetation, or is it a cleared area? As you can see from those photos, most of the bunkers were in heavy jungle.

Make sure you don't leave any open areas on the diorama (called dead space) where nothing is happening.

Keep it up,
Chas

you need to open an account to photobucket.com and upload your pics there.
Better now, the ground work is promising
keep working for a 16 year teen you should be proud of your work

Cheers
Seb

chas yes i m going to camm up thos bunkers and add lots of vegitation i need to give it a few more shades of brown i think then should be ok!

dead ground is being filled in my brain with ideas i will keep you posted

seb thanks i am still doing the ground work i am using banzai leaves they are small and look like jungle plats i am collecting them to add soon!

sorry about no progress today i have been at my girlfriends!

lucky for some eh.

thanks jimmy more work today i think might do figures

hi,

the groundwork is looking good

what materials have you used?

Rob

Looking good Martyn, your groundwork looks very good, id fill it up with a bit more jungle litter though, some leaves and such on the ground. You could also consider adding some kind of booby trap as a little point of interest.

Good to see more young guys on the site! I feel old now and im only 20 haha, still got some of my projects from when i was 16, not as good as this!

Rob the ground work is dried mud with static grass chopped up leaves and leachi its still on goin! so many more plants to add!

thanks for commenting!

Rob Harvey thanks yes i am going to add so much more jungle plants and thanks for the idea about the trap i might add a trip wire or a weapon or something like that any pictures to help me with?

thanks for the comments

Martyn, check out Csago's dio with Navy seals leading a VC captive towards a booby trap...



In fact, for the master on Vietnam special forces and VC/NVA dios, look at his kitmaker album...

hth

R

thank you Rich!
i have done a small bamboo spike patch thats has been uncovered need to add some red ink to them i will check kitmaker out thank you!

ok progress is coming along nice but there was a prbolem with my camera and il try it today to show you what ive done!

its photo time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yaaay!
the bunker is still being built im adding the walls and making the "window" out of logs once complete it will be cammed so it will look like a bunker!
ok heres a small booby trap that has been uncovered by a grunt but the grunt did not survived so i made a makeshift war grave!

Your idea is nice. The dio also looks nice.
Three things:
1. The soldiers are just there, so I don't think the Grunt would be burried allready.
2. When the soldier dies and the boobytrap is uncovered it will be removed.
3. A US war grave during the Nam war mostly was a stick with his helmet on it and his rifle next to it.

Lars

hey martyn

i noticed the tree stump are bit to clean for being in an area just shelled if thats your idea?
you need to rough up the top of the tree stump to make it look like shrapnel ripped through itl... that would give a splintered look on top
but the booby trap looks gud tho mayb make another so its not alone but a different kind and abit bigger maybe

hope to see more

Tony

lars i only used the grunt as an example could be any one .
and i no that but if you have a peice of ground where the boboytrap was you cant put a sign booby trap was here so i left it to show it thanks very much for the comments

tony i have only placed it not glued it and the area is not supose to be shelled vietnamese cut the trees down to get a better view of incomming troops so i might add more
thanks budd!

i have done a grenade post which you cant see!

well my twin brother i think your bunker is quiter good i cant wait too see it finsihed
only a few things....

you should add more junglie stuff to the base and weather the base

im reli impressed with your painting

thnaks s yer i need 2 get some plants so when ur in scottland pick me some up =D

We always evacuated both our wounded and our dead when we could get to them. If the area was secure enough to dig a grave, it was secure enough to bring in a dust off bird......so the wounded and the dead got a ride out of the area. I am sure there may have been graves dug over the course of the decade or so that we fought there, but I don't know of any examples.

If a guy bought the farm, we put him in a body bag and sent him home for proper burial.

Semper Fi,
Dave

Hi Mate! ace dio mate if you can get some mixed herbs from the local supermarket use them and scattter them eveywhere as it looks like crushed leaves and then you can add a load of jungle plants!

thanks nick il do tht!

Hi
looks good but the didnt use anti tank osbtacles like this in Vietnam it taks time and practise
you will get it
Lee

great job so far good luck with the build

ok sorry about the long pause school is on and im a busy bee i will get back to it right away with figures and ground work!

Ok I feel like I should finish this so I am trying to build the jungle.

Pictures soon