Looks good to me. Should come out nicely. Are you going to have the MG position hidden in some brush or something. If not, I would assume the OH-6 would be engaging it as opposed to the guys running. Looking forward to seeing it develop. Keep us posted.

The palm fronds are really good. I would offer that you do a filter of a darker green to give them a tint variation. Maybe add a bit of brown on the ends of a few to make them look older.
Composition is solid and spacing very well done.

The palm trees look great.the dio looks very promising!keep up the good work .Btw you might want to change the position of the brances of the palm tree a bit due to the air flow of the helo.How large is it going to be?

Coming along nicely Csago. I think Scott has covered the coconut fronds (leaves) so I have just a small comment on the trunks. It might just be the photos but the trunks appear a bit too smooth. Coconut trunks have rings throughout the whole trunk which are quite visible. This is rings are a result of what's left after the coconut frond drops off due to old age. I have some closeup pics in an article I wrote in the Feature forum under Dioramas (Jungle section) if you need some reference.

I assuming the trunks are not painted as well as trunks tend to vary between light brown and flat earth colors. I guess you will be bending the fronds downwards more to simulate the downwash from the heli.

The layout looks interesting thus far.

Looks good!
How did you do the palm trees?
Where are the viet figs from?

Very nice already!! Great trees, great figures, great loach, great layout; I just love it!

Keep us posted please
Mark

hi there, i like everything in your project. just one nitpick. paint the ridges of your leaves(coconut) light green and darker green on the leaves. add some dried palm leaves just under the coconuts..out there in the jungle..coconut trees are alittle messy. the ones you seen on resorts were tended by farmers or gardeners. that's why they're clean underneath.



your's by far is convincing.. if you like i'll post some more pictures for reference.

they look pretty convincing from what i can remember from my last trip there, so keep up the good workand i loko forward too seeing the finished feature soon !

One quick point - having jumped out of helicopters in the past, I can tell you that the air stream of the craft would be whipping the palm fronds all over the place if the helicopter were that close to the tree.

Even at 30 feet above the ground, the grass and weeds below will be swirling around and beaten flat from the air blast.

Your palm fronds look wonderful... but if you are going for realism, then they shouldn't be so "still".... perhaps one or two palm trees in the distance with a normal appearance, while the one supporting the actual helicopter model would show the fronds beat down against the tree itself...? Just a matter of symantics... your work looks quite good!

This is going to be an AWESOME dio. You have barely started and it already looks great.

How long does it take to do a dio like this?

I can't wait to see it.