I have been working on my new project. A diorama combining figures and a helicopter flying. About to land on a rooftop to reinforce some troops holding the building. Or something like that.

These are the kits I am working with:



Figures are from YuFan.

Looks like some good choices. How about posting in the Aeroscale Rotary Wing Forum, the helo side of Armorama? It would get more looks from those interested in helicopters.

Aeroscale Rotary Wing Forum

The concept is something like this:



Where that is supposed to be the top floor of a 3 story building. Now I am thinking of just doing the roof area of the building. We will see.

I must say that the Kitty Hawk kit left me very dissatisfied. lots of problems with the build: warped parts, bad molding, confusing instructions; the whole lot! definitely not a model for beginners!
Anyways here are some pictures of the build:

This is the modification I did to stick the wire to hold the helo in the "air":










Some of the tricks I had to use to correct the warping:

Black base coat:












With the figures in place:

I will try to get some good pictures of the finished helo and post them there also. Thanks Gino.

Outstanding build my friend. Very eye catching. Need to keep an eye out for your updates.

Hi Marcos,

I always enjoy seeing your builds - looks like you’ve got another (complicated) great build under way! Keep up the good work -

Cheers
Nick

Thank you Clayton and Nick. Hopefully it will be a cool diorama-

Almost done with the last two figures.

Marcos,
This looks very nice. I especially like the subtle weathering on the bird. One note-I might darken the blood on the wounded troop. Im on blood thinners and spend a lot of time in the brush and bleed like a stuck pig. Other than where it is "flowing" it turns blackish almost immediately. Up to you though
Jeff

I agree with you Jeff. I will fix that shortly.

Very cool subject, and nicely done. Small niggle - neither the diamond shaped NOD mount nor the Ops Core were in use back then.

Yeah, I guess I was just waiting for that. Nor are the webbing, fatigues, or the combat boots, because everybody assumes it goes back to Gothic Serpent. So I am not trying to date my dio, but the yufan figures looked so cool that I said what the hell.

All done with the soldiers.






And decided to add this casualty, modified to the correct ethnicity. It is a Paracel figure with a Hornet head:

I saw this idea to represent a rooftop without having to do the hole building. I think I am going to go with something like it.



And I still have to work on darkening the blood. I didn't darken it enough.

outstanding work there Marcos. i ike the idea of the black raised base to represent rooftops

Looks fantastic Marcos, nice job!

Cheers
Dave

Cool, but youfan figures and parts is all stolen by me

Thank you Colin and Dave.
Yaroslav, I guess you meant stolen "FROM" you. I was not aware of that. The poses are different from what I see you offer, but I guess parts could have been used in modeling the figures and accessories. Since several "reputable" Hobby shops offer them on the web I never thought there was copyright infringement.

All done with the last figure:

Fantasyic scene,realy love it,figures look great.

Thank you anthony.

I have been working on the base for a couple of days.



The roof stair enclosure will serve as the base for the helo. I did a small canal on one of the corners of the enclosure where I will embed the tube that will receive the support shaft of the helo.