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1/72 Modern Afghanistan War Diorama 2011
Scoonesy
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: April 12, 2011
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Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 12:38 AM UTC
I have spent a year making this diorama, it features a fictional battle in the Afghanistan war between the Taliban and joint uk/us troops. In the middle is a USAF f-22 Raptor, shot down by the Taliban somehow. Every structure in the diorama is made from kits except from the tanks and the corrugated iron which I made from cardboard then painted. The f-22 was an airfix kit which i messed up whilst making so I decided to put it in the diorama. Now bearing in mind I'm only 15 and this is my first ever diorama, please leave any comments and please give advice on how to improve it. Thanks!








































parrot
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Ontario, Canada
Joined: March 01, 2002
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Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 10:43 AM UTC
Hey Matt,

For your age and being your first dio I think you have done a great job.
Also welcome to Armorama,if you like models and dios there's not a better place to learn and get advise.There's a lot of info to gather over a long period of time to do amazing dios.My first suggestion to you to work on and it will be a little time consuming is to carefully cut the bases of your figures and then glue them.A dio should be as close to real life as it can be and nobody has a platform under them.
You'll find info overload as you go on so I'll just leave you with that to start.
Keep up the great work and keep us posted on your progress.
To see what years of learning can do,scroll down to"That Aussie's in Iraq Diorama, 2006'.
nathan51
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Joined: April 11, 2011
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Posted: Sunday, May 01, 2011 - 06:08 AM UTC
cool dio matt i hope my first one turns out as good
where did you get your taliban figs from???
Scoonesy
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Posted: Sunday, May 01, 2011 - 09:31 PM UTC

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cool dio matt i hope my first one turns out as good
where did you get your taliban figs from???



http://www.modelhobbies.co.uk/shop/mars-mujahideen-72002-p-21318.html

:)) At the time i thought it was really good but now i'm building another diorama which is a lot better and much more realistic, it's being posted on the SAS counter-terrorism in england topic on this forum, check it out if you want
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