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Hey, I have never tried anything like this before, but three obvious ideas came to mind, Im sure you already thought of them butjust in case, here are my thought. 

1.First would be to hang it from something with clear fishing line or something even less noticable.  You could hang it from the ceiling, or better would be hanging it from a higher point on the diorama, for example if it was flying under a bridge or something, although thats not likely.

2.  I personally dont like this idea, but you could make a thin hardly noticable clear stand out of plastic that the plane would rest on top of.

3.  In my opinion this would look the most realistic.  I would position the aircraft so that some tiny part of it, like a wingtip, is touching the tip of a tall tree or something, then glue it.  Still it wouldnt look perfectly realistic, but much better than hanging it.

Hope this helped, Ian

Clear plastic rod is the way I would go...

Good luck!

Another optionis to have the aircraft close to the ground on a strafing run and hide the prop rod in some brush or in a tree that the aircraft is flying by.  The angle of the rod will help hide it as well, such as from the rear and under a wing.  That way, when it is looked at from the desired angle, the rod is hidden.  That is how I did a similar dio with a flying Huey.

The best way to do this is forced perspective in  boxed diorama.

Choose your point of view, pilot or ground.

If it's the pilot, use the largest interior you can find and build from the controls forward. Discard the rest of the plane. For figures, use 1/72 or 1/144 stuff. You will then build a box with an opening. The nose will be attached inside the opening so you're loong form the pilot's perspective. Build up you ground ork and add full scenery for what the pilot would see.

Target's perspective. Use 1/35 figures in the foreground. The aopening can be larger here. Use 1/144 and smaller planes. These can be attached directly to the side or back of your box whkch has scenery to include whatever the soldires on the ground would see.

For your straffing run, I wouldn't use same scale models, you'd need way too much room to get a realistic effect. Guns are typically aimed about a thousand yards out for maximum effect. To maintain guns on target you need have a pretty steep angle. To get an idea of how far away a plane has to be before it overshoots its target or has to regain altitude, watch some gun camera videos, such as those involving trains in Europe or ships in the Pacific.

Would a 1/72 airplane go good with 1/35 armor

 

Tankluver wrote:

Would a 1/72 airplane go good with 1/35 armor

I think that would still look really close.

Look at he picture in my sig. The captain is about 6-10 feet in front of me (on national colors). He's my height, but  in that short distance, I'm no more than 2/3 his height.

Hi Tank lover.The Idea really would be useful on helicopters.I cannot call it my idea,as I saw it in 1 of the Gallery's [ don't remember which gallery ],but it doesn't matter.You can figure out the w's,ya know,who what when Etc.What the moddeller did, was mostly for vietnam era choppers.He had several tall trees in the dio,and he used the tree.It was how he used a heavy stiff wire hidden attached to the trees& attached it to the the skid that won't be seen When looking from the front or sides.It really did look like he was landing,or departing or a strafing at treetop level.That's my 10 cents on the topic.    Hope it helped out,    Rudedog