WIP Attempting to suggest flight

Good call on the Hase figs... Those helmets will convert nicely..

Thanks  Hans for the kind offer.  However, spurred by your previous suggestions I dragged out and dusted off my old Haswaga box of flight deck personnel and I reckon I can do something with them.  Infact I have made a start and will post pics I think as I go along.  Thanks again for the offer but no need to disturb the dust .... I already did that!

rangie wrote:

Hans I am quite comfortable with figure conversion ... what figures had you in mind?

I've got a couple figures, one's a Monogram Camel pilot, and another a WW1 German from a kit I don't  remember anymore... The German needs a head with a flight helmet.  They're yours if ya want them AND I can find them...

As Promised the A1 Skyraider low over water

 

 

Hans I am quite comfortable with figure conversion ... what figures had you in mind? 

 

Biggles..There is a steel pin set into the tyre of the camel and this is glued into the top of the "tree".  I may yet push this further into the branch so that it appears as if the tyre is just brushing the tree top.  For inspiration I often look at those ceramic models people do of birds in flight  you can quite often get decent mounting ideas from them.  I did one a while back where the wing tip appears to brush a wave and another steel rod again took all the load.  Will take a pic and post it up as I think it worked quite well!

Very nice work, Rangie.  I have often thought that there are too few aircraft dioramas for my taste.  I appreciate that ground-based (ie armor) subjects lend themselves more readily to dioramas, but as an aircraft modeller, I am always hopeful that someone will be braver than me and try an air-dio.  I'm afraid I have no ideas to offer on WW1 figures - good luck with that - but I like what you have done.  What did you use to hold the Camel, and how did you fasten the model?

 

Cheers,

 Biggles

How are ya at figure conversions?