'Fallen Armor' Junkyard Dio

[CharlesKing]

I thought I'd put together a small dio that somewhat depicts armor fallen to IED's or heavy attacks which left them totally destroyed and unusable. I ad seen quite a few pics of badly damaged vehicles, beyond repairs just put into a heap or collected together and placed into a 'Junkyard' type for damaged vehicles. So this is my representation of such yards during the Iraqi War...

Many pics. This dio also shows my first attempts to model figures. Not the best but I am learning.

 

[CharlesKing]

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[Atwater]

schweet!

 

[Recovry4x4]

That is so cool. There's alot of stuff going on in that diorama. Would love to see your modeling room/basement!

 

[73m819]

wow

 

[bratpackdad]

Amazing detail, even a bottle of Grey Goose in an ice chest! Add a fuel truck and it looks just like the toilet bowl we used to refuel at.

 

[duffman1993]

Absolutely fantastic. I have a dumb question, where did you find the models or did you make em from scratch??

 

[m816Buch]

Looks good........i need those welding tanks for my wrecker, but they aren't real are they

 

[54reo]

Very nice!!

 

[CharlesKing]

Absolutely fantastic. I have a dumb question, where did you find the models or did you make em from scratch??

Thanks duffman. The truck up in front is an Italeri m923 which I modified and added the armor. The container to the side is also Italeri. The scrapped M977 is another Italeri modefied model. The flatbed on the ground was scratch built and so was the back engine compartment bay, which I built for the M1075 PLS Hemtt truck. The humvee is from Tamiya. Everything else is more or less odds and ends or small parts i got from my scrapbox.

 

[srodocker]

wow

 

[suggsdr]

WOW! great job.Looks so real.

 

[PaulbusMax]

You've gotta be kidding me. I was halfway thru the pics before i realized they were models.

 

[fuzzytoaster]

Looks great. Makes my "army-man" figure pictures from long ago look like crap! Hah!

 

[Blood_of_Tyrants]

My only criticism is the lack of fire damage, and bent/broken parts. Fire will initially be seen as smoke damage, burned paint, and then metal burned clean and heavily rusted. Also look at how tires burn (usually top down with lots of wires showing through black particles of burned rubber).

 

[CharlesKing]

My only criticism is the lack of fire damage, and bent/broken parts. Fire will initially be seen as smoke damage, burned paint, and then metal burned clean and heavily rusted. Also look at how tires burn (usually top down with lots of wires showing through black particles of burned rubber).

Thanks for your critism. Appreciate it. Although the vehicles were not meant to be represented as heavy fire damaged vehicles, I do understand your point. I'll probably incoporate it into my next dio or make a few modifications to this one. The vehicles were just meant to represent moderate damaged to the bodies. Also, most parts when removed from the point of orgin loss some of the burnt attributes.

Thanks again and I will take note of what you said.

 

[maddawg308]

Great job, IMHO. I think I made one model in my life, it was a Spitfire airplane, when I was 11 years old. Looked like a glob of glue and mis-assembled parts when it was done. I think I ended up using it as an ashtray, like most of my other shop projects in middle school.

Keep up the good work!

 

[CharlesKing]

Great job, IMHO. I think I made one model in my life, it was a Spitfire airplane, when I was 11 years old. Looked like a glob of glue and mis-assembled parts when it was done. I think I ended up using it as an ashtray, like most of my other shop projects in middle school.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks. Appreciate the comments.

 

[gunboy1656]

Man is that some good work, I work with 1/87th scale and it looks nothing like that.