Finish this diorama on early today. Helicopter and jeep from my friend Mr.Kamphanat and diorama by me. Thank you for visit and welcome to every suggests and comments.

Hi Prasert,

Nice little diorama! Really well done this Loach. The jeep is of a later type than used in Vietnam but nevertheless very well executed!

Keep up this work!

Best regards,
Mark

Nice Layout and good idea!

Claude

Hey Prasert, I have an affection for V.N. dios and I do like this one. Ground work came out very nice. Are you going to add a few figures yet? My only thought is the rotor blades, solid or the honey comb type for this bird, if honey comb type, they would shatter instead of bending. I'm not anywhere near an expert on them but the pics I have seen are mostly stubs, anyone know for sure. Asking because I have 8 choppers from the V.N. era to do down the road and this is one of them.

Looks pretty good. The M151A2 is an issue for me though. The A2 never made it to Vietnam. In Vietnam, the M151A1 was present. Academy does a really nice M151A1 kit.

The OH-6A rotors were metal. They tended to twist up and deform in a crash.


UH-1 Huey blades tended to break apart and have pieces fly off in a crash.

Very well done diorama.
I love the set-up. I work on choppers as a flight Engineer and have seen photos (thankfully nothing in person!) of lots of helo crashes. Because of the tight landing area I would suggest breaking off some of the trees or branches around the helo. They would have been easily chopped by the blades.
Also, if the crasgh was bad enough to knock off the tail then the landing gear should possibly be splayed out or damaged more.
ther than that, very excellent work!

Thanks Gino, just wasn't sure which was which. Still a great peice