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  • Member since
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  • From: Seattle, WA
BF109 Diorama
Posted by Kiwi on Monday, July 18, 2016 10:45 AM

Hi all,

I've been working on a Tamiya 1/48 BF-109 "Galland". I kind of rushed the plane a bit as I've been away from modelling for about six months and was just excited to be building again. It came out okay...

BUT, the fun part, is the diorama that I've been wanting to build forever. I'm about 1/3 of the way through it. Have some grass down, and a nice tree in the corner. The part I spent most of my Sunday working on though, is the cobblestone road running through the corner. Being an avid cyclist I am obsessed with the cobblestone roads of Belgium and France. A few years ago I picked up a box of 1/48 plaster cobblestones. I glued them to a plastic base with extremely liberal amounts of Tamiya glue and big wads of Gorilla glue - probably explains my headache this morning - and think it came up pretty well. The rest of the base will be grass, mud and the typical wooden planking often seen under German planes in occupied Europe.

I still need to weather the stones, drag some oil and dirt through them and pack some mud in the gaps but was excited to share the start!

Would love any tips and tricks/feedback for dioramas like this!

Tim

 

 

 

 

 

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Monday, July 18, 2016 12:56 PM

I like this, nice setting for the dio, might have to pinch that idea, i have been looking for new ways to improve aircrfta bases which can be rather boring. Would be nice to see some wider pics of the whole thing. Be nice to get a good idea of the composition of the whole scene.

 

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  • Member since
    November 2004
  • From: Cat Central, NC
Posted by Bronto on Monday, July 18, 2016 2:25 PM

You might want to reconsider using the PSP under the 109.  The Germans did not use PSP for runways / airfields.

  • Member since
    June 2013
  • From: Seattle, WA
Posted by Kiwi on Monday, July 18, 2016 2:54 PM

Indeed - It's just a plastic base that I am using for this purpose, that will all be covered up with wooden planks, grass and mud. I like the PSP base because it holds glue so well and makes it really easy to stick other surfaces on top.

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Monday, July 18, 2016 8:01 PM

This would be better if it was posted in the Diorama thread.

  • Member since
    June 2013
  • From: Seattle, WA
Posted by Kiwi on Monday, July 18, 2016 10:31 PM

Few updated pics from this evenings work:

  • Member since
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  • From: Ipswich, Massachsetts
Posted by Johnny Reb on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 9:09 AM

Beautiful job, Kiwi. You really nailed it with detail and a general sense of a 'moment in time'. In regards to any possible comments as to what types of materials were used in any situation in regards to WW2, it might be considered that the war was so huge, any situation was possible and plauseable; specific materials that may have been used primarily by the Americans in say, the South Pacific could have been used on the European front as well, then could have been captured by the Axis forces and therefore used accordingly. There is so much that we can never really know for certain, and therefore ones imagination could technically become reality. Anything was, and probably is, possible.

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