Autobahn Einsatz 1945

Dear all,

Greetings from the Netherlands! My first post on this forum, I had been looking for a nice mkb forum  for quite some time and  managed to miss the obvious.....

Great magazine, not subscribed yet,  but it's also great to look forward to buying it on airports before flights, most of my copies therefore come from Vienna Airport

Here'smy first  topic then , currently on the workbench. Scale 72

It represents the last of the Luftwaffe jets  gathered under a autobahn viaduct for operations against advancing US Army units across the Rhine bridges. You can se I use mostly domestic stuff for diorama's, bbq sticks, buttercups,  cardboard boxes , sandingpaper, etc. I actually have a soda bottle under reconstruction as  Shuttle Enterprise's Main Fuel tank..

The models are quite old; from the very early eighties when I was a teenager. I never threw anything I built away, lots of it sits in boxes, and I call this 'deep storage' . Apart from the buying of new to create my stack as I read about elsewhere, I can have lots of joy from disassembly of old models that I built rather crudley as a kid, and try to do better in a second  shot, with years of experience and more patience under the belt. With all the aftermarket stuff around , it´s a lot of fun.

back to the dio...  The Me 262´s are matchbox, but most of the UC is scratch built, having lost the originals. The cammo is a  long drybrush of green over a greyspot cammo typical for 262´s. Still needs some cleaning up, I´ll redo the bombs,  and tone down the arado rivets....that´s really neccesary.

Viaduct is cardboard covered with railroad application brickwall printing.I have cut out some parts along the bricks to create depth. Road is sandpaper. Just put all on to figure out final setup. Still looking for pics of german  roadsigns and roadmarkings. I´ll put a conrete slab pattern on the road and go for weathering.

Now for the pics...I see i need a mod´s or admin´s permit to add attachments..meanwhile look here

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/scale-modelling/1091-autobahn-einsatz.html

Hope to post directly here soon...

regards

Skybert