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The gear on the EA-18G Growler is pretty top notch and covers about everything at its time of release. One thing that would be interesting, aside from holding an unplugged Fluro tube in your hand and having it light up like a lightsaber near a Growler, would be to see just how much radiation the crew is absorbing while its in use. The Black Box I carry when working on IEDs is pretty scary in its output. Glad I have all the kids I want already. Good article on the Job of a Warfare Officer http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/confessions-of-a-us-navy-ea-18g-growler-electronic-warf-1694954599 Love the comments on trying to keep up with Brit Tornados and being left in the dust at 200ft and 1000kph or so...

next logical step... adding sound...

How about a Reaction missile at the moment of detonation... Or a Phalanx unleashing

http://miniscaping.com/art/15/diorama Found a ton of them here!!!

The how to guide for it all... http://dioramas-and-models.com/how%20to%20do%20it.html

http://www.gundamkitscollection.com/2014/09/custom-build-with-led-and-diorama-hggt.html http://gundamguy.blogspot.co.nz/2014/10/hg-1144-gm-thunderbolt-ver-explosion.html http://dioramas-and-models.com/Hans%20Ulrich%20Rudel%20and%20his%20Stuka.html

The full article including the how too on the Carrier strike diorama http://dioramas-and-models.com/cutlass%20ramp%20strike%20(1955).html

You just need the Google Translate app in a smart phone and it reads it as the camara looks at it. Point your phones camera at the image on the PC screen and tell it to look for Russian. Then just highlight each line of text the app picks up for an instant and surprisingly accurate translation! The results will be identical to whats been posted above. Useful for our model instructions too. Wish they had this built into an EoTech unit, would have been useful in Afghanistan! To wire one up there are two wires going from small poles/posts to each end of the "flashtube" or bulb (actually a gas chamber). These are the ignitor wires. Extend these wires from the circuit board to the tube and you're good to go. Just remember its 240v/110v you're messing with. Also there is no plastic sheath that hes built. He means the actual bulb, guessing in Russia the bulbs are plastic, in NZ they are glass. Smallest Bulb size I've found so far... http://lapintop.en.ec21.com/G9_Micro_Full_Spiral_Micro--3774744_3916384.html

Dont forget all ground based military models are most common in 1/35... yet another scale! Atleast in 1/35 we could add Battroids and Gerwalks and even parked or crashed Fighters to our displays with ground forces! but no.... I've been having a nightmare time sourcing civilians in 1/72 - 20mm scale for mt city scenes to go with the Hasegawa and Wave kits. There is plenty of HO and OO scale train stuff but thats actually 1/87 and 1/76 scale!!! And NOOOOOO one makes 1/72 running, panicing and fleeing civilians! Not even Shapeways.

That was the plan... Everyone here makes brilliant models... now to see what you all can do with a total display, something you dont see often with Macross stuff.

ahh... saving that for the UN Airforce Special Ops Team, Dual wielding Super Pack Valks

remember, NONE of these are mine, these are ideas I've found on pinterest that got me thinking about my own dioramas I'm doing.

I had a photo of an actual Swedish CV9040 under the panel and layed it on a light box to trace out the patterns. I chose the GtK for the fact it WAS different looking and because at minimum its armed with a Mk19. To pods and 10m troops I figured the more bang for buck the better. MK19 Hi Velocity HEDP seems a better option to 12.7mm ball rounds from an M2 for knocking them down so thats my thinking for the City Scenes and how everything will be armed. Mostly Mk19s, M203s, Barretts, Autocannons and ATGMs. Not so much main tank guns as they firstly wouldnt be able to track a hi speed target with one and second hitting a soft organic body would not initiate the fuse although airbursting Proximity would be messy, but thats useless within a friendly urban area, as even firing one past a building or ridge sets them off. Seen one fail and detonate a round 68m down range of a 105 field gun because of a ridge radar shadow. That was a fun day seaching a 1km grid square with metal detectors looking for the pieces and the fuze to conduct the investigation!

the grey?

haha my thread has achieved its goal... Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Instead of wire use a clear acrylic rod hidden within the "dust" to hold the model but spray it matt so it doesnt reflect light to help it disappear within the cotton. Gerwalk jetting over the desert? Or over the water? Actually.... an awesome display would be a VF-0 Gerwalk racing low over the water with two F/A18s or F14s in chase formation evaluating the Phoenix. All 3 kicking up spray tails. Another would be an SV-51 emerging from the sea abit like the image below...

More progress on the Street scenes. Final base layer down on the first of the M90 camo'd Boxers. Think it looks good. Now to try it on a Destroid. ​

Gives you something to think about doesnt it... all well and good doing a static model display but what if you could do it in such away the viewer is mentally filling in the next few moments of whats happening... Displays should tell a story or a moment in time. An interesting one that makes you start thinking and going off on tangents. That desert Recon scene has me reliving my days on a deployment and having to design a crash course in off road riding to the Recon elements of 1RNZIR when we were issued KLR350s and Quads to use. A couple of Irish Rangers came along with us and they had DR400s which is that bike in the image. My only qualification for do this being I was an A grade Motocross Racer... probably the worst person to be teaching anyone SAFE riding techniques. Definitely alot of airtime on the course and thats a bad thing with all the extra gear we carry on them!

Amazing what you can do with some cotton wool and Steelo pads!.

yep... thats what I'm thinking... Impacts on a wall... a collapsing wall caught the moment of detonation... a burning building interior... A beam cannon scar along a roadway up to the feet of a destroid with still glowing edges?.... so many ideas forming. That White Phos one is pretty dynamic too!

Other examples...

Stumbled across this during lunch looking for ideas for the street scenes Wow... Interesting idea!

Those things are great for stacking and burying underground in sets to make large (1000L - 5000L) hidden water storage units. I use them to supply my ponds and streams. Bread trays and Milk bottle crates. Random bit of info for the day. Breaks over, back to your SDF1 project.

I've had to use Elhiem 20mm figures for my UM Spacy and UN Marine ground Troops They are a good fit next to the 1/72 LAV

ahhh if only the Gunpla stuff was 1/72!

if you end up doing extra drop a line, I'll grab a 1/72, I'm in no rush, take a year if you need too.