Diorama Ideas and Feedback please

With regard to the first idea, in the Tamiya Fieseler Fi 156 you can play the camouflage of the east front in 1942, but the unit is unknown. I also know that the FW189 was certainly used on the eastern front, in fact in 1942 was equipped with skis. So it is very probable that the two aircraft may have been encountered on the Eastern Front during 1942-1943.

As for the second idea, I do not think that bridge accurately reproduces the damage from a crashed plane, I would buy the Treadway bridge and I would put the plane fell to the side.

Thanks so much for the feedback.....the Great Wall Fw189 comes with skiis, as does the Tamiya Fieseler.  My hunch was that a plane could not do that much damage to a stone bridge....

But even if that were the case, the damage to the bridge is not compatible with a crash of a plane, it seems more of a damage caused by the explosion of a bomb. To cause damage like that the plane should have crashed exactly in a vertical line, and even if it did, the damage would have more a circular shape. The wings certainly did not have the strength to pierce a stone bridge.

definitely, aluminum wings and frame work vs. stone - my money is on the stone.  I can still incorporate the bridge, and use the treadway sections, and simply have the plane in water near the bridge???  Or is that getting too big and busy?

If you put in the diorama only the bridge, Treadway, the plane in the water and maybe a stationary vehicle on the bridge, I don't think the diorama would be crowded and big. Especially in 1/48 scale. Maybe before you make a sketch of what you want to represent, so you realize the space and proportions.

Sounds good, thank you so much for the feedback, it really helps....I am just getting back into this after being out for a good ten years....

So Welcome back, glad to have been of help.

Welcome back!

I like the second idea in particular. It's a big job, but could be spectacular. I recently saw a diorama from the London Docklands with a German bomber crashed in the water.

The first idea though seems to have a problem. Both of the A/C are very interesting in their own right, and might compete with each other. Either one conveys the time and place, in other words they don't depend on each other to tell the story. Lot's of airfield ground stuff, esp. if you researched how it was winterized, would be a good setting.

Looking forward to seeing those aircraft builds!

Do you have a link for the Docklands Diorama?

Another question.....

I am also looking at doing a maintenance scene diorama, and have looked at scratch building an engine hoist, but have also found a beautiful hoist made by Extratech:  The full title is:  Portal Crane - Airfield Maintenance1/48 B48007. It is available at Squadron, and it is an insane price, $86.00.

It looks like a bit too much for me to take on from scratch...for now at least.  I have found a "jib" crane at track48.com.  It is made by Gaso.line, and designed to fit to either a Panther or Tiger tank the product code is:   HLX48230.  I am curious, could that crane be modified to fit on the back of an Opel Truck?  If not any suggestions?  I have had people tell me that you really can't go wrong scratch building certain items, such as engine hoists, as a lot of stuff was put together on the fly in order to get the work done.