Hi everyone
This is the beginnings of my forest diorama for the FW 190 A8 I completed in the GB. I decided not to bore everyone with the process of making 7 pine trees, and so I've started the thread with only 2 more to complete.
The idea for the diorama came from the Group build when I was kindly sent some terrific reference photos from Steve (Stona). These pics showed various German aircraft in various stages of camouflage and then one with a forest cropped up. I'd had a vague idea to have a scene with camouflage netting and from this first idea the idea for the forest kinda grew (excuse the pun).
The plan is to have a camouflage net stretched between the 4 central trees which will housing something of a workshop and of course the aircraft. The floor of the workshop will comprise of the wooden decking used in other dios I've seen with perhaps a work bench and i few guys grafting away. I have a kubelwagen and a Citreon staff car (pictured) to fill out the scene further plus a few other pilot and luftwaffe figures. The aircraft will be viewed leaving the safety of their 'nest' and getting ready to take off from the adjoining Autobahn a legacy of Hitler's civil development projects in the 30's. The autobahn will be seen in the left hand corner of the dio (in front of the 190).
I plan to take pics of not 1 but 3 aircraft here; the 190 built in the GB plus a 190 Dora and a 262 1a Schwalbe yet to be built. I have to say that my present fixation with late war German aircraft can be directly attributed to the GB! - you know who you are!!!
BTW - anyone thinking of joining future GBs should do so as they are superb fun.
This gives an overview of what I have planned and I'll try to take pics of the build as I go along. For anyone interested in knowing how I built the trees I'm going to do a step by step on the last one.
I hope you all like the dio...
Cheers
Paul
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This is the beginnings of my forest diorama for the FW 190 A8 I completed in the GB. I decided not to bore everyone with the process of making 7 pine trees, and so I've started the thread with only 2 more to complete.
The idea for the diorama came from the Group build when I was kindly sent some terrific reference photos from Steve (Stona). These pics showed various German aircraft in various stages of camouflage and then one with a forest cropped up. I'd had a vague idea to have a scene with camouflage netting and from this first idea the idea for the forest kinda grew (excuse the pun).
The plan is to have a camouflage net stretched between the 4 central trees which will housing something of a workshop and of course the aircraft. The floor of the workshop will comprise of the wooden decking used in other dios I've seen with perhaps a work bench and i few guys grafting away. I have a kubelwagen and a Citreon staff car (pictured) to fill out the scene further plus a few other pilot and luftwaffe figures. The aircraft will be viewed leaving the safety of their 'nest' and getting ready to take off from the adjoining Autobahn a legacy of Hitler's civil development projects in the 30's. The autobahn will be seen in the left hand corner of the dio (in front of the 190).
I plan to take pics of not 1 but 3 aircraft here; the 190 built in the GB plus a 190 Dora and a 262 1a Schwalbe yet to be built. I have to say that my present fixation with late war German aircraft can be directly attributed to the GB! - you know who you are!!!
BTW - anyone thinking of joining future GBs should do so as they are superb fun.
This gives an overview of what I have planned and I'll try to take pics of the build as I go along. For anyone interested in knowing how I built the trees I'm going to do a step by step on the last one.
I hope you all like the dio...
Cheers
Paul
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