Hi gents!

I´d like to show you my first diorama ever. It began as a lonely MH-47E kit with some PE parts, but as I was going on with it, I asked myself: Let´s try a diorama, a new challenge. I have never done any before, so I tried to make a pinnacle landing. But as I was talking to a friend about the project, he told me to make something special, not a pinnacle landing, many pictures found on the web. So he messed me up and it was finally a water extraction. The diorama took me 4 months an was finished on June 2015.

The helicopter is an Italeri MH-47E SOA. I tried to make a Night Stalkers unit. I added some Eduard PE and extra stuff on the bay. The Zodiac is a F470 and it´s scratch made. Soldiers are from 2 Caesar´s kits. Water was so difficult to make and I had to do and undo some times.

I hope you like it

Some pics of the bay




I also added some leds and optic fiber lo light up the cockpit and nav lights.


This is the final result









Best wishes for the new year!!

Nice idea and cool concept ! This is a nice dio for sure. Did you consider leaving the rotors off to show them in motion ?
J

Hi, Jerry!!

Thanks for your comments. I did, but once the helo was completely fixed and I didn´t dare to move rotors again. I also considered to apply some movement effects, as seen is some tutorials, but finally, I didn´t do that.

Thanks again!

First dio ever?? Can't wait to seethe next because thisone is very well done!

Hi Hans!! Thank you very much. The next one I made is also showed in the forum, it's called The Golden Hour. But this time it was on the desert.

Thanks again, mate!

Looks great overall. Excellent details on the interior of the helo. One issue with the helo though, MH-47Es are black overall w/OD green markings, not green with black markings.

excellent concept and well executed, nice work!

Hi HeavyArty! Thanks for your comments!! As fas as I know, 169th SOAR helicopters are not black. As I could read on many posts over the net, they are a mixture on a Helo drab with black. The final color on my MH is due to the weathering, pigments, oils.... This picture shows you what the original color was before weathering.



It's true that it finally looked more greenish than I wanted.

Thanks again for your words!!

David, I'm glad you like it.

Cheers!

Right, there is a bit of Helo Drab Green in the mix, but they are mostly black and appear black, especially in small scale. Your initial paint job looked much closer to the actual color. As you say though, the weathering made it appear too green.

Thanks again for your info. It´s very appreciated. I guess that this MH won´t be the only 160th helicopter I´ll make, so I´ll try to match the painting as you say.

Best regards!

If you decide to build any more 160th SOAR helos in the future, Werner's Wings has a few great decal sets for them that include the correct OD Green markings, and other markings for them.

Werner's Wings SOAR decals.

Night Stalkers Part 1
Night Stalkers Part 2
Night Stalkers Late Additions

I know, Gino. I was thinking about get some decals for the Chinook, but finally I decided to go on with the kit´s ones. There is where I got many ideas, including the painting, for the MH. He has a very very very good tutorial building one 47E, but 1/35 instead 1/72. Werner made an amazing work with that helo.

Thanks anyway for the links!!

Yes, Floyd's MH-47E came out awesome. I have seen it in person. Good luck on your future builds.