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Shepard Paine did a diorama of the Lady B Good crash site many years ago. It was a big prodject because the plane had broken into two pieces when it hit the ground unmaned. All of the fabric had rotted of the control surfaced. Are you giong to build it before or after the crash? I see if I can find the pictures of the diorama.

 

                                                                              Soulcrusher

                                                             

 Soulcrusher, if you can find some pics that would be great, thanks

As for the model, i'm planing on ultimatly doing a dio with an airstrip scene with the intact bomber ready for take off , then sort of fading out to the crash scene, thats why i chose to buy two 1/72nd scale Liberators instead of a 1/48 sclae plane, but thats pretty far off and i'm still planning on how exactly to pull it off, first i want to complete the fully intact Lady Be Good

Crazygerman;

                    I have a book written years ago all abouut the Lady eb Good.Some good black and white photos.Yeras ago the History Channel did a show on the Lady.It was a good show.They announced about two or three years ago that they were going to do a follow up show on the Lady.I do not know if they have aever done so.The Libyan govt moved the remains of the Lady Be Good to a military airbase of theirs.They have not let anyone have access to her for some reason.I saw a 1/48 Monogram diorama under glass of the Lady Be Good at March AFB back when it was an active duty base.Being a Marine when we flew overseas we had to go thru March AFB.As usuall sometimes there could be long "hurry up and wait" periods.I would go to the displays.Today my daughter lives 5 miles from March AFRB .I go over to the static display area all the time. 

I think i have that book, is it "Ladys Men" or "The Lady Be Good, Mystery Bomber of WWII"?, i have both, both great sources, if yours is different than theres a book i don't know about and i might have to make you an offer  i also have the history channel DVD, like i said, i'm obsessed with this story, lol, i don't know if they did a follow up on the history channel though, its a shame the libians won't give anyone access, to me its a valuble peice of american history and a monument to her crew, but i guess the U.S. government gave her up long ago.

Wow, that dio is very,very cool.

Great Idea.

I have a book called Log of the Liberators that has about ten pages on her.

David

 Got a few pics, most of which I obtained doing some Google surfing.  Hope they're of some use with your dio.

 

 

 

Hey Crazy...

One of our fellow forumites "Vintage Aircraft" did a dio of the same subject.  Here's the link:

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Chris

From memory, she was found by oil workers in the 1960s.

Is Shepherd Paine still around?  Dragged out his diorama book last night and had a good read.

Cheers

Andy

 Thanks for the pics keyworth, theres 2 i didn't have that'll be very useful, and thanks for the link bossman, She was first sighted in may 16th, 58' by british oil workers who were flying over to map out a road, if i remember correctly, funny how fate works, anyway my model is comming along pretty well, i'll probably post some pics as soon as i finish the cockpit, thanks for all the help and encouragment 

I've finaly got around to doing an update on this project, and i managed to snap a pic of the interior work i've done on the co-pilots side of the cockpit...

its not done yet and its taken me around 6 hours of actually working to do, sadly a lot won't be visible when its done but its good practice for when i do the crash seen with the open fuselage. I didn't run any wires yet and i still need to add the navigators equipment and the radiomans equipment. comments and crits welcome. I hope to have better/more numerous pics up soon to show the rest of the work i've done in the cockpit.

I am responding to crazy german about the "lady BeGood" crash display of April 1943. I havce been following this story since 1959. I recently found a copy of the book written by Dennis E. McClendon pub. 1982. I am interested in building a scale modle of the crash site. I saw an article some time ago in a scale model magazine with all the details on how to do it, but I never followed up on it . Do you have any information about this article.