A new diorama

If I could make a small suggestion ( a very small one becuase everything is absolutly amazing on that plane and carrier deck base!)

Take the plane and angle it so that one of the main gear wheels is touching the deck, and compress the gear a little bit. Then elivate the other gear ever so slightly so its just a bit off the deck.  This gives a better visual of movement and how violent and sketchy WW2 carrier landings were.

VA

Freakin' awesome work---that blur prop really conveys movement...don't think I've ever seen this modeled before...outstanding...

By the way, I love your hometown of Salzburg, nice area.... 

Too cool!!! Good on ya, brother!

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Wow!! This is stunning! Great work!

May I ask who makes those nice PE propellors?

Again, awsome work! It's gorgeous! 

WOW!  Beautiful work!!

And you are right, that prop blur really elevates this one!  Nice job!

Hi there,

well I'm back with my current small and fast project a new diorama. I haven't been able to do what I would like to do....building models all day long, I had some other work to do, so I could only finish a few more bits and pieces. I almost lost a couple of pictures which I had taken during the painting process of the aircraftwhile I tried to document all the various stages of painting the aircraft and using that salt-technique but hopefully I was able to recover them so here they are. As you will see I have finally settled on just another of those bent-winged birds a Corsair. I can't help but this is simply my favourite and even though I have meanwhile build more than a dozen of them, I cannot resist.

I have used the Tamiya F4U-1A sacle is of course 1:72. This kit is perhaps the best Corsair available and I really hope that Tamiya will make it true and come up with another version of this beautiful kit. At the end you will see that I have already installed the aircraft to the flight deck and that I used one of those prop blurs, which I have ordererd a few days ago and received them today. Those tiny PE prop blur's are fantastic, very simple and the effect is stunning! The greatest invention since model kits. This is one aftermarket part which I can recommend easily and without any doubt. Next I will do all those additional details on that small dio and of course a couple of figures to make this dio come alive! Have fun with those pictures and as usual any comments and critiques are welcomed.

The finished Corsair (well almost) waiting dor some color!

The entire model is being painted with Alclad aluminum


add some salt........


and after that some more color in this case flat white


some more color:


Then, get rid of that salt:


a first attempt to see how this bird is going to look on that deck but without that special prop!


and here it is: what a difference:
















Keep on modeling
René
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Hi again,

today is a holiday here in Austria and so I'm able to spent another full day with my little diorama. The first thing I did today was finishing the base. I painted all the details and added some weathering too. The only thing left is the wood of the base itself which I will paint somewhat later. The floater net were added too, I made them from little pearls my daughter Nathalie gave me. So this is another nice detail, some more to follow.

After that I decided to start with the aircraft. I made the engine and added some details to it. I do not like to use any PE parts or a resin engine for this project, I just wanted to build an aircraft more or less striaght from the box, that is without the use of any after market parts except selfmade details. Currently I'm working on the wings and all the rudders, off course I will post some pictures of that too.

Hope you like it

Keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz

That is going to be awsome!!   What scale is it? How are you going to attach the corsair?

I got a little idea... How about turning the rudder of the corsair to the side, positioning the corsair in opposite direction, so it looks like it's going to land in sidewind?  Would perhaps add to the drama...

Awsome diorama though! Can't wait for the next update! 

Great deck , with great detail, I think will be a great dio.lol Great job

Pedro

Okay here I am back again. Today I spent some time on my new ongoing project. I almost finished the diorama base as you are about to see. You will also be able to see that I have changed the arrangement of the catrwalks once again. I did not like the idea of the whole catwalk at the same level. But my first attempt did not work out very well and so I attached all the catwalk that way, but as I simply did not like it very much. So today I chanegd the entire arrangement once again and this time the whole thing looks much better. I added some details and started to color some of them qas well. Additional I added the flight deck markings and one of the arrestor wirdes. the seciond one is still missing thisw will be attached to the aircraft. So here are the next pictures and I still hope you like them and I do not bore anyone with my explanation.

So please as usual if you have any comments, critiques or ideas, they are highly welcomed

Keep on modeling
René

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Hi there again, well today I was able to spent another2 hrs. on my new project and here are the pictures of what I have done today. After all the planking was in place I started to build the catwalk. My first intention was to build it in two slightly different levels. but when I had this installed this it turned out that the upper level was much to close to the flight deck, so I decided against this idea. The catwalk is made of plasticsheet and some selfmade PE floor. The stanchions came from Krick, a German company pretty expensive stuff but in this scale faaaar better than PE stanchions. I'm planing to add some additional bits and pieces on the catwalks like tools and fire xtinguishers and so on, so lets see what else I could to. I hope you will have as much fun with these pictures as I have and as usual any comments, critiques or ideas are highly appreciated.

On this first photot the catwalk is at two different levels, looks good, but is to close to the flight deck in my oppinion.

Finally a close up of the selfmade PE Tiedown tracks and the elevator frame, I'm planing to sell these PE parts anyone interested?

Keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz

A Corsair (your admitted favorite) is always a good subject for a carrier landing, or maybe a bolter even... But I like the way the Corsair looks with everything open and hangin' out, down & dirty, for a landing..

This's "my" -D from CFS2 in the pattern at Vella La Vella...

This got "me" put in hack....

Ok here I am back again. I thought that I would be able to post these new pictures a little bit sooner, but I had something else to do. So with a little delay, here they are.

All the wooden planks are in place and I also added the Tie down tracks, arrestor wire sheaves and the surrounding parts for the elevator. After that I was not sure if I should leave the deck in its natural brown colour or if I should perhaps camouflage it. I tried to do it with some pastel chalks and weathered the flight deck so that you can see. I will still be able to colour the deck and of course I will have to add some deck markings as well. Let me know what you think.

Next will be catwalk and some additional details, so let's see what kind of ideas come up.

As usual all comments, critiques and ideas are highly welcome.

I'm still not sure which aircraft it will choose.

Keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz
 

I really like the idea of individual planking. Most people would try to simulate the wood and you have upped the ante with real wood.

Look forward to more in progress pics.