Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, depicting the US Marines’ struggle for the city of Hue in Vietnam, the Davies brothers endeavored to create a similar enormous battle sequence. Accomplished in record time and working mostly during the hours of midnight to 4:00 AM, something unique emerged: a 1/35th scale, four-square city block area with more equipment, buildings, rubble-strewn streets, and minute detail than one could imagine. Countless hours of sanding, gluing, painting, weathering, washing, dry-brushing, swearing, scratch-building, rethinking and watching GlenGarry GlenRoss over and over again, resulted in "Battle For A Block--Marines In Hue 1968."

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