best build I have seen all year, very nice!
Theuns
overall shots have been added
Mike
overall shots have been added Mike
Your composition of the figures and balance of color is fantastic.
O - U - T - S - T - A - N - D - I - N - G!!! [t$t] [t$t] [t$t]
I agree with GH. Your Dio is truly worthy of a feature article in FSM.
Jim [cptn]
All I can say is what has already been said WOW!!!
Beautiful work and also kudos for the discipline in building this to this level of quality. The figures are first rate.
THAT thing…is AMAZING. Just lovely…sharp and super tidy. A beautifull job. But the deck is too clean! Everything else…the figures, the vehicle, the aircraft…absolutely astounding.
Dang! You must be WAAAY happy with that!!!
Dude…that’s fantastic! Thanks for sharing the pics! That diorama is just beautiful. So impressive. You’re a master. HA!! I’m very, very impressed.
Thanks for showing the “big pics” Cham.
Even better !
Chris
Beautiful diorama!
While echoing the above comments, have to nitpick just a bit.
It costs a dime or two (the common expresion is “million bucs a minute”) to trun an enirer GTG into the wind at 30kts (every ship but one burning bunker fuel at prodigious rates).
So, if, say, six a/c are wanted for a strike package, those birds are shuffled on deck aft of the catapaults they are meant to use. The armamnets for the package are elevatored up and hung off the birds. If one of the a/c “downs” they will launch the other birds in the pacakage, but at some point they strip the down bird and get another bird up in its place.
This creats a great deal of drama and action.
So, there should be redshirts safing the weapons. There ought to be whiteshirts (saftey & final inspectors) on (elbow deep in) each of the opened compartments. There should be a green shirt nexts to each of those showing a fist, with fingers indicating minutes remaining, visible to the head yellow.
The head yellow ought to be shadowed by another yellow with a clipboard, and a green with a headset relaying profanity from the Air Boss & his deputy.
The PCs ('turdshirts" in the vernacular) should have chocks on the wheels and should be really have the birdy chained down in place.
Those figures are beatufilly sculpted. However, they are in the loose tops. Those were worn with OG 107 OD trousers. By the time the Navy was issuing Woodlands BDU trousers, the tops were tight-fitting jersey tops of nomex. One other subtle detail–before woodlands, the hearing protection muffs were painted to match the specialty; after nomex was issued, all muffs were a sort of radome tan (this was to show that they were wearing the upgraded SPF 28 muffs).
Still an outstanding mdel, though.
Mike, a real work of art!
I quit Photobucket because of lots of minor annoyances … now my monitor won’t show your full diorama - just part of it, so I checked the image out in PB and it’s full there … strange.
In any case your diorama is fabulous.
Lovely work. I’ll echo what someone else said that it is the best I have seen on the forums this year.
I served on the Carl Vinson CVN-70 VA-52 As a AQ (Avionics Fire Control tech), Westpac 84, The last cruise where the acft were painted both the new gray and the old seagull gray and white. Hated to see the new paint jobs, Ugly as hell! That bird was such a huge RADAR cross section that it could never hide in the sky,no matter what you painted it with. The replacement, A12 was even a bigger more expensive joke! Should have gone with the A6F, The NAVY knew better! (sarcasim). I love this rendition, Im building the same type of scenerio only will have two A6s one ugly one pretty! I hope my skills with the figures are as good as this. Awesome job! Chains on the Plane Captains a little big, I only opened the emergency generator once, hardly ever saw it open. Again, great job! ORCA, FTN,(just kidding guys)!