Jaws 2 inspired diorama - helicopter attack!
BELL HTL-4

I've been wanting for a long time to create this diorama, as I love this scene from jaws 2 when I was a kid. Its so over the top. So I bought an old MRC kit for the bell helicopter HTL-4 (1:35), I think its made by Academy now. I found the real helicopter from the movie (Hughes 269B) but it was too expensive and a bit out of scale. the MRC instructions are really weird and difficult to follow, its easy to forget pieces or skip some steps. I didnt use all the detail form the engine (too fragile) but add some wires in the cockpit. I found a shark figure and a vietnam helicopter pilot (better figure for the dio than the one in the kit). I saw a video from scale-a-thon "How to Make a Realistic Ocean Diorama Base" on youtube. Perfect technic, as I didnt want to waste a lot of resin to build the dio. I had some "water wave" effect from Woodland scenics. Really glad of the result.