I have been having this ridiculous idea in my head for one or two weeks and just wanted to let it out of my head.
I love WWII US carrier borne aircrafts and some modern ones as well. Since they are all in 1/48 scale (cept for a tiny Tamiya 1/72 corsair, good kit though) and up, I am thinking about converting an entire display shelf just for them. getting wood strips and lay them right over the shelf and try to figure out a way to do those metal strips for tie downs out of body filler. the thing is that shelf is pretty darn big at at least 2 1/2 by 4 feet. should I try to do the deck in 1/48 scale, which would take me a year, or to save some work and do it in 1/32 scale. The only modern ones I got are F-14As in 1/32, 48, 72, and 144, but am thinking about getting that trumpeter A-7 and another Tamiya phantom II (shouldn’t but i want to…) so now the debate comes to whether I should be laying out the deck modern style or wwII style.
I will leave that off till summer I guess, but there is at least one thing I am sure about, most of the wings are to be built folded.
I’ve had a similar thought to this myself. I’ve got a 6-foot by about 18 inch shelf with most of my latest builds on it. I try to stick to 1/48 for aircraft, but I’ve got a few 1/35 helos as well. My plan is to make the whole shelf into a tarmac flightline to display all my builds.
I like the carrier deck idea. Maybe I’ll eventually make another shelf like that, with the tie-downs.
That’s why I’d like to see some new plastic molds of airfield/carrier deck equipment in 1/48. Then I’d just make the shelf one big dio.
verlinden actually makes resin one for the airfields and decks that goes for pretty low price, you can probably get one of those and try to duplicate them yourself i guess.
I could go that route and buy something, but I’d rather try and do it myself and see what results. I’m looking at someday turning a six foot long shelf into a modern carrier deck or the apron of a flightline for my 1/48 planes and helos as well as my 1/35 helos. I’d get more satisfaction from doing it myself, though the PE cat-eyes and tie downs would work for me.
Does anyone know of a site with diagrams for the correct tie down of aircraft?