Japanese airbase references

Have you checked out Osprey Publishing? If any one has a book in print on that, it'd be them

Revetments are pretty standard.. Only real difference is size.. Wha exactly are you looking for?

I am doing a dio with a japanese plane, and so far all the pictures I have seen are long distance, and flat lifeless piles. I want to do something, for that I might just use chopsticks to form a 3 sided revetment with dirt/sand just up on the outside maybe include sandbags as a top layer.

I was wondering about a building of some type. We used the Quonset Huts but they did not so....

  any thoughts?

Revetments in the forward Jap areas were just piles of dirt...  Bulldozed into three-sided affairs that were wide at the bottom, norrow on the top, and about 10-20 feet tall, depending on the aircraft .being used primarily..  These are in New Guinea...

 Note that they've been overgrown with foliage..

Here' a link that shows a permanent revetment on Okinawa.. (Posting the image is a no-no from this site)

http://www.pbase.com/ac40/image/52842286

Other were more elaborate and permanant, being made from stone..

These revetments are at Rabaul..

The buildings that the Japs used were generally constructed from local materials by Korean laborers...

thanks, I was kinda hoping for more stuff around, BUT I can build a revetment I might also go US base with a Nissen hut US plane maybe some pilots lounging around and the Frank as a junked plane airfield being repaired by a Japanese dozer driven by US and add some palm trees {more a baa baa black sheep setting}

Well, reevtments are pretty well-maintained.... You can put all kinds of junk behind them, but they're pretty bare where the aircraft is parked...

I might also go US base with a Nissen hut US plane maybe some pilots lounging around and the Frank as a junked plane airfield being repaired by a Japanese dozer driven by US and add some palm trees {more a baa baa black sheep setting}

Well, you can compress some stuff on dioramas to include things that are a ways away, but you have to keep it to a mnimum....

Even on TV, the Black Sheep Corsairs weren't parked next to the Sheep's Pen...  Nissen Huts were around, but that was later in the war, circa late 1943...  Most buildings were the wooden Japanese ones (they weren't torn down if they were usable), and the rest of the "Quarters" were tentage, consisting the four-sided "Pyramid" tents that slept ten (or four Officers)...   The mess hall (not the kitchen tents though, they were a special design) operations, and armorers/avionics shops were in GP Mediums...  The rest of the maintenance was done outside, in the open...

That said, I really like the idea of a shot-up Frank getting moved outta the way by a 'dozer...  You can add a ot of stuff laying around then..