I’m building a diorama with a 1/35th scale UH-60 blackhawk crashed on its left side. What would be the best way to show this. 1-Cut the left front from the model or 2-cut a wedge out of the base.The base will be covered by celluclay.
You could try heating the crashed side with something called a Hairdryer?(haven’t needed one in a long time!), and then ‘crashing’ it onto the base to achieve that ‘just crashed look’.
I would think it’d be easier and quicker to cut out an area in the base.
Those are tough birds…I’m assuming that it went down at a low level?
I would study as many real crash pics as possible…it’s better if you are working from a real situation.
I would thin the plastic on the body where it would bend and crunch and try to get as many ‘sharp’ bends and twists as possible, then cut the interior parts to fit or bend with it.
At a low level impact there really would not be that much damage and you could also rough up the dirt or building materials to help hide some of the helo damage.
The thing that makes or breaks a ‘downed’ helo dio is the blade damage…its hard to get ‘modern’ blades to look just right.
Oh yeah…don’t forget…loose or seperated panels always looks very cool too!
Good luck!
I would go with Oggy4624’s recommendation. It would look more realistic to have the aircraft crushed than to bury the nose in the groung or cut a portion of the nose away. If you look at crach photos, you can get an idea how it looks. I have never seen a crashed helo that looks like it has buried itself to the point where the aircraft is under the ground’s surface, it may create a hollowed out area ro hole, but not have the ground fill back in a around it.
Here is one over at Armorama, by Pablo Sanchez:
More here: http://www.armorama.com/modules/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=12507&password=
Good luck.
It may be some work, but I think that somewhere between oggy and papa is the way to go. Cutting it off would just not look right. Simply heating the plastic and “crashing” it may make the bends too smooth. If all you did was thin the plastic and crush it you would get alot of the sharp angles that you want but probably not much bend. Time for some hands on research on this one.
Mac
When I was stationed in Korea in 1996, I actually saw one of these bad-boys go down at the airfield! The tail rotor caught on a large netting that surrounded the airfield to keep any debris from flying into the field from the buit-up congested areas.
The body and most of the boom landed intact on the airfield with minor damage. The tail rotor assembly flew through the netting and landed in some Ota-shi’s backyard after cracking his roof and broke a bunch of kim-chi jars he had back there. He was pretty pissed off at first until a neighbor ran over and told him how much he stood to make off of this accident.
The crew was just fine with no injuries at all though.
Papa-echo-64, Are far as I know their is no photograph of super 61’s crash scene(I wish there was).My dio is based on the book “the Battle of Mogadishu”,a book written by 6 TFR members.Sgt. Wilkinson describes the crash scene as super 61 crashing in a small alley not far from the target building.When she went down(Low Level) she crashed on her left side resting up near the far alley wall.Thanks all of you for your input on my post.I’ll post the pictures when I’m done! Thanks guys!
You welcome!
Sounds like you on your way…keep us updated and ask if you have any questions!
I always enjoy building something from history or things with meaning / story more than just any aircraft, car, sci-fi or what ever.