WWII aircraft plant

I seem to remember a diorama how to book that did a bomber line... I'll look and see if I can find anything for you on that.

First of all, 5.0Lady Your're gonna find that there are a lot of friendly and extremely helpful folks on this forum.
As far as the civilian figures in 1/48? Try one of the scale railroad sites or catalogs. "O" or .027 railroad models are 1/48 scale. The better accessory companies have LOTS of figures to chose from. Men AND women.
I have seen them in plastic and pewter.
Great modeling to you.

Randie

Thank you Randie, I feel like I should have known that after all I buy plastruct and etc from train shops. Oh Im from Ohio and I can also cook a mean bowl of red.

Adam, I think the book you are refering to is Shep Paine's Diorama book. This was the one with A Half-assembled B-26 Marauder, parts strewn about, work tables, and a couple of workers relaxing and cleaning up. I don't think it mentioned what scale it was, though.

What bomber do you want to depict, 5.0Lady?

QUOTE: Originally posted by AJACKETSFAN I seem to remember a diorama how to book that did a bomber line... I'll look and see if I can find anything for you on that.

FSM ran an article on Shep Paine and his dioramas. He had one of a B-26 Marauder production line. These were featured in one of the recent FSM annuals, I believe. Can't lay my hands on it just now, but i'll look again and let you know..

'Twas in 'FSM's Great Scale Modeling 2001'

I don't think they'd mind if I post some scans from that ish:










The Shep Paine book that some fellas mentioned above would be very helpful to 'ya as it has some very detailed explanations as to how he made this diorama.

There's also a few books on the subject of aircraft production in WWII. Two really good titles are:

Forge of Freedom - American Aircraft Production in World War II by V.Dennis Wrynn, published by Motorbooks International

Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production by Joshua Stoff, published by Dover Books

If you need any help finding photos or such, give a hollar...


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Thanks Steve-O... my wife has been "straightening up" my reference library again I couldn't find anything... I kid 'cause I love. One interesting thing... he put mirrors in the ends to simulate a long production line... he's good, real good!

P.S. I didn't forget about you 5.0lady... just wanted you to know that... I just couldn't find the book.

WOW, that is an awesome diorama!!!! Can't wait to see your dio 5.0lady!!!

You may want to try:
www.redlancers.com
its a figure shop for all scales and any subject you can think of.

best of luck
bhkable

We're doing the same thing at my museum right now, a diorama of the General Motors plant in Trenton, NJ, cerca 1944 (TBMs).

We're using O gauge model railroad figures from Walthers... www.walthers.com, as well as a variety of scrounged figures from Monogram's P-61 and B-17 kits.

Jeff Herne
Director, NJAHOF
www.njahof.org

Thank you Jeff, I too have a collection of 1/48 figures some are generic enough to use ,some have clipboards,some kneeling etc. I will check out Walthers though,I should have known I could find them at train stores and if memory serves me right most should be 40's 50's era.....I believe I need a larger ratio of women to men to be accurate. but I apreciate the tip . thank's Colleen