Get everything placed time to take a step back refer to the photos and make any last adjustments or additions before priming out the entire diorama. I am using condensed foam in two grades that I trialed to see how they would react to cutting, compacting, tearing, solvents and adhesives. I found that super glue works the best and will not melt the foam for smaller piles of debris a spray adhesive common to craft stores or Mod-Podge works great and dries clear binding pieces. I need to make an iron gate that will be a final detail to the mosque entrance. troops FIBUA fighting in a built up area with light armored vehicles in support. I started with something that would bring the flavor of the region forward a "mosque entrance" then expanding outwards to create adjoined buildings. I consulted on my own photo references of (battle damage) as well as online to capture the architecture common to Fallujah and the effects/results of the many military campaigns. Being a modeller as well I find it therapeutic as I build this diorama I reflect on my time in country the good and bad experiences. I myself have served in the Infantry in Kosovo war and as Munitions Specialist in the Afghanistan war. Through photos, articles, memorials and even dioramas that often adorn war museums its a tribute to our brothers in arms. I do however think that we cannot let the past be forgotten. Many other memorable points in military history have been captured in diorama's it is hard and often too soon or raw to recreate a combat scene. The second battle was the bloodiest battle of the entire Iraq War, and is notable for being the first major engagement of the Iraq War fought solely against insurgents rather than the forces of the former Ba'athist Iraqi government, which was deposed in 2003. When coalition forces fought into the center of the city, the Iraqi government requested that the city's control be transferred to an Iraqi-run local security force, which then began stockpiling weapons and building complex defenses across the city through mid-2004. Earlier, in April 2004, coalition forces fought the First Battle of Fallujah in order to capture or eliminate insurgent elements considered responsible for the deaths of a Blackwater Security team. This operation was the second major operation in Fallujah. Marines and Soldiers have been involved in since the Battle of Huế City in Vietnam in 1968. military called it "some of the heaviest urban combat U.S. Marines and U.S Army against the Iraqi insurgency stronghold in the city of Fallujah and was authorized by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Interim Government. The Second Battle of Fallujah-code-named Operation Al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر "the dawn") and Operation Phantom Fury-was a joint American, Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004, considered the highest point of conflict in Fallujah during the Iraq War.
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