Oliver Hyett Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Help pleasei need help designing an airfield diorama for the following models:1x bristol blehnim mk1 being repaired1x bristol blehnim mk1 engine on fire 1x RAF bommber re supply set preferably with the blehnim being repaired1x airfield controll towerplease help me as even though i am an experienced moddeler i have never made an airfield diorama before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 If I was to do this I'd find out if there was an old airfield nearby that the Blenheim flew from. As it happens I know that they flew from RAF Collyweston, which was a relief landing ground for (and was later incorporated into) RAF Wittering. I'd then do a Google Image Search to find out what the airfield looked like. Did it use dispersal pens, the type of hangars on site, what the Watch Office (control tower) looked like etc. Best to look for images on line for inspiration because only you know what appeals to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Incidentally the Airfix Control Tower is typical of (but not specific to) a bomber airfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJC Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I've never done a diorama myself but I would like to and have been turning it over in my mind for some months. I bought several Airfix 1/48 'accessory' kits like the refueller, the Bedford truck and the crews, all of which I am yet to do anything with. I did complete the 1/48 Hurricane which I was going to use as the starting point but I don't think it good enough to justify the diorama; this will be a project for the future when I fully intend to do the new Spitire and/or new Hurricane again. Whilst I do strive for accuracy and perfection, at least as far as the kit itself will let me, I'd be more inclined to 'artistic licence' as far as the diorama goes. I would certainly look at web images to get the overall flavour, but if no airfield ever had the layout my diorama ended up with, I would not worry too much. At the same time, I'd not let myself depict an airfield that was clearly of the 1950s onwards because it would be historically inaccurate. But that's personal taste. If one wished absolute accuracy the only way is to recreate airfields known to have operated the type and as Ratch suggests, that means visiting known bases or finding specific images. My own justification to myself would be that nobody could really tell what airfield it was meant to be anyway (is anyone really going to go 'ahhhh that can't be RAF Burnleasefoldingham, they had two adjacent dispersal areas and only ever flew MkIV Blenheims'?). Further to that (whether historically accurate or not and to justify it to myself only), during WW2 any aircraft would have landed anywhere due to the state of some airfields after a bombing raid. I'd love to see some photos of the finished item so that I might get some inspiration myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJC Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I should have said, I also bought some 'grass' used for model railways. It is therefore at a smaller scale than 1/48 but I wonder if it will look more accurate for my purposes in 1/48. It's the foam, scatter, type. I also got some 'earth' at the same time so with careful laying, I will have some muddy grass. If there was ever any concrete or hardstaning areas, I will look at proper 1/48 scale commercially available bases which I know exist. That, wtih the scatter material, should produce something. I hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Here are various airfield elements I've put together.My first attempt.http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/10048213/142535681.jpgAnd another.http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/10048213/193424770.jpgThis was inspired by Grafton Underwood.http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL761/13303934/24438612/407602021.jpghttp://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL761/13303934/24438612/407602024.jpghttp://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL761/13303934/24438612/407602028.jpghttp://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL761/13303934/24438612/407602035.jpghttp://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL761/13303934/24438612/407602038.jpghttp://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/16163162/283961803.jpghttp://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/18877177/409847061.jpgBased on King's Cliffe. Originally known as Wansford, it was RAF Wittering's second relief landing ground. The Air Ministry renamed the airfield RAF Kingscliffe, contracting the name of the nearby village. It served both the RAF and USAAF.http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/20071953/410714809.jpgThese aircraft are from the 77th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, USAAF.http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/20071953/410714811.jpgTwo Airfix 40mm Bofors guns (02314) and various Airfix figures on a Bellona (?) vac-formed base.http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1312/4776356/19793783/410293965.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Hyett Posted November 30, 2015 Author Share Posted November 30, 2015 thanks guys ill show you when i finnish itit wont be as good as yours though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Keep practicing, my first one wasn't any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJC Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Ratch, there's probably too much to go into too much detail, but are you able to explain, even if broadly, what materials you used and how you constructed your diorama? For instance, though not limited to, what did you use for grass and how you got the bunkers shaped? I'm also interested in the hardstanding: my guess it is a commercially avaiable base? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 The grass is railway scatter. Bunkers! I presume you mean the E-shaped blast pens, that's a vac-form set by Amera, and the hardstanding is hardboard, scored with an Olfa P-Cutter and airbrushed. Most of my methods are described in this linkhttp://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=43603 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJC Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Thanks Ratch, that's useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Hyett Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 thanks guys for all your efforthere is proably the worst diorama ever even with great advice!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Hyett Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 hang on forgot the pics/media/tinymce_upload/93d961e459b927b558edb6826be6e024.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/20a5a1363906fb34fd30657721907a8b.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/5a96bc337367d980ff4fba25f7054934.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/0ab064aeb8ceec408ccf7c4aa6e66d6b.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vimal_indrasoma Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Ooh - that's a big one ... she said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJC Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 here is proably the worst diorama ever even with great advice!!Whatever is wrong with it? Granted I am not a great modeller, but in all other respects it looks fine to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Looks fine, except the Watch Office wants taking out of the Blast Pen - aircraft were re-armed in the pens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Hyett Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 okluckly i have not glued anything down yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty Mediocre Modeller Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Nice looking scene. I think I spotted that someones been at the mince pies in the background on the first pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Hyett Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 oops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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