Diorama HMS Warspite get's a few scars

[kpnuts]

Hi all I made a start on what is going to be a massive project in which HMS Warspite is involved in an air attack by the Germans.

I will be using Academy's 1/350 Warspite and several other scales of model aircraft also will be using led's for the explosions and lighting the water spurts from near misses with bombs.

I wont be getting the Warspite till my birthday in roughly a fortnight but have made a start on the base and some of the planes I will be using.

Here are some picks of where I am at, at the moment.

























































the smallest bombers are 1/350 scale kindly donated to this project the 1/144 stuka's are zevada

the 1/72 Stuka in the process of being built is Academy and I have a 1/72 Airfix FW190 to go on the Dio too.

as you can see it will be a long term project.

[kpnuts]

Hi all here is a little update on the Stuka
I have realised from the pic on the box I have bought the wrong version, the one I've bought is the anti tank one, which, apparently has no dive brakes and no bomb cradle.
I have tried to make the air brakes (I could only find one decent pic of them and that was on a model) I have no idea what they really look like so this is my best attempt at what I could seen. as for the bomb cradle would that have swung back up after dropping its payload as I obviously dont have a bomb so I want to do it as if its just got rid of it.
I have glued the windscreen on before it says so in the instructions as I got tired of rescuing them from the CM after breaking them off, seemingly every single time i picked it up, Hope that decision dosent end up biteing me in the bum





Also made a start on the FW190

[kpnuts]

Look what I got today
















Not allowed to start it till my birthday though(mind you I wasn't allowed to open it before my birthday)

[wylee]

looking forward to seeing more pics......

[kpnuts]

Well I don't know why this Stuka is still in one piece, I was doing the undercarriage and the canopy came off as did the rear guns(I stuck the canopy on to stop that happening ) so after half an hour wrestling with CM I won and glued the guns back on put it on the bench for the glue to set went to pick up the FW190 snagged the Ju87 with my sleeve it fell on the floor upside down, guess what came off, so 20 mins later wrestled them from the clutches of the CM went to glue them back on an ping off they went just found them after over an hour chucked them and the model back in the box. That's me done for tonight @@!!.

[kpnuts]

Well here is a progress report of todays work the guns are back on the Ju87 and have done a bit more work on that and the FW190.

[kpnuts]

Hi all done some work on the FW190

[kpnuts]

Here is tonights bit on the planes

[fordrodnkustom]

I'm liking this most very ambitious project of yours. Thanks for sharing it with us!

[kpnuts]

Hi all got some paints for this dio delivered today



Its amazing how much paint you need for something like this, as far as I can work out I still need another 11 colours.
and did some work on the stuka

[geezerman35]

Nice project.
Happy B'day and good luck

[kpnuts]

Hi all an update on the the planes



did a bit of work to try and make this look like a He 111





did some work on the FW 190



and here is a shot of all the attacking planes I will be using

[fordrodnkustom]

Looks good so far. I'm curious about all the different scales though. Forced perspective?

[kpnuts]

Yep forced perspective(hope it works, lot of money wasted otherwise)
Anyway here is quite a big update, I have tried my first attempt at panel lines and weathering of a plane, also I have been experimenting with the explosion on the Fw 190 wing





























the explosion is a bit too orange so will have to either add some brown or blue to it then a bit more black to the smoke, still got to add the suspension strutt and the cover thingy that goes over the wheel will have to buckle that a bit and bend the suspension strutt but I think the explosion should work ok.

[geezerman35]

Wow! What a clever idea. The explosion looks great !!