Man, you guys are being bombarded with the Nam topics as of late huh? :-) Ok, I'm making a Hue city street corner for a Tet Offensive diorama. It's gonna have a destroyed 2-story building made from concrete block looking things like the one shownhere only not as rustic looking. It's probably going to have stucco over it and look more like this only with more battle damage and the blocks showing through. I've got quite a number of pictures to get a good idea of what buildings look like from the outside, but what about inside? The main question is what would they use to make a floor in a building like this? Since the entire back of this building has collapsed, I'll have to make a cross section of the roof and second story floor. Would it be made from wood beams, concrete, or what? Would it be a good idea to see what French interiors look like to see what a building like this would look like? This is going to be something like a hotel, or restaurant. Something high class and not a local beer joint.

You've got some Great referenc photos, I like those. Consider that you're doing a very urban setting one in which a pretty 'upscale' type of setting will be (a restaurant). I would imagine that the building would be fairly modern, wooden beams, with wooden floor, for a second story. Potentially even metal beams. With only a two story building wood may suffice.
This is conjecture and I'm only using related personal experience so... it's not totally accurate or unbiased.

Short but efficient solution : go to your local video rental company, find a copy of "Full Metal Jacket" and watch part II of the movie.
Lots of Hue, lots of ruins, inside and outside. I never was in Hue, but it all feels pretty realistic to me. Watch building details. Same concrete bricks, some ornaments, lotsa rubble.

A lot of Hue, had a French influence in the buildings. The interiors are much like the western world. Parts of the city had a strong Chinese influence, ie. large open rooms with tall ceilings etc. The movie Full Metal Jacket will help you a lot as Jan has stated.

Ahem, Full Metal Jacket was filmed on an abandoned industrial estate in London... Though there was a lot of very clever design work went into the film.... This apart, I think you have hit on an interesting point Jan, the amount of time and effort the set designers put into designing a film is worth our study as modellers as we are working on representation of a scene their techniques can (and should) be taken into consideration... JIm

No point argueing that. But Full Metal Jacket may be easier to find than a half hour documentary showing original images of Hue during the war...

Full Metal Jacket is a good film for reference, but there is a docromentry that i have, called Vietanm: the unknown images, and it is EXCELLENT, its made up of color film that was declassified a couple of years ago, its by the bbc, but over here it goes under the company of sbs, its weel worth a look for anyone who is interested in vietnam, it goes through everything, all the vehicles, the weapons, the battles and the background, everything, check it out

You might try this site: www.popasmoke.com

has some galleries of vietnam city scenes.

kglack

Hey Brad,

Drop me a line and I will see if I can help out with some photos.
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Bill

This series from the BBC had an excellent episode on Hue and it may be available on DVD

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/twentiethcenturybattlefields/

Brad,

I've been working my Hue Dio for over 10yrs now off and on, had the same questions as you. So, what I found was the History Channel videos and American Legion DVD's on the Tet Offensive had the answers. Might be hard to find them, but there are tons of sites where the vets may be able to answer your question if you ask them. I started by googling Hue City, Tet Offensive and found tons of stuff.

I'm using tile sheets and some wood flooring, bepending on the situation. You photo looks most likely to be wood flooring. Doesn't look like the house is upper scale, so it prpbably wouldn't be concrete. Wood was subject to rot and rodents, termites, etc, but more affordable than concrete.

Hope this helps, Ski.

LOL,
you guys are answering a 7 year old thread (probably a new record) of a guy not present anymore on this board since 5 years!

I doubt that there is still any interest.

Have a nice day

Claude

Minor detail!