Hmm, might be fun to “tinker” with that one a bit–(like adding the contra-rotating rotors that design would need to have), or just upgrading the “sky soldier” to have an M-14 [:)]
Oh, I think many of us already have tried! [;)]
How about this one: 737 fuselages that have fallen off a train?
Have a nice day!
Paweł
Somewhere there is a picture of my dad taken somewhere in the South Pacific during WW2. He and a couple of his fellow aircraft mechanics are kneeling in front of a Corsair. I haven’t seen the pic in years, but I’d like to find it and build a simple dio to honor my old man.
Hope you do build it.
Going to have a go at scratch building this:
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Something that just popped into my head. My diorama would be based on an actual recorded action in which a military man or unit would’ve performed an act that would’ve received that Nations highest award. It could be from any service era; any country; any service branch: Congressional Medal of Honor, Victoria Cross; Medal of Lenin, Iron Cross, Blue Max, the list goes on…
Has anyone done a scale model for something like this before and shown it on-line?
Ben
Hello!
I believe it has been done before, although I don’t have any specific diorama in mind now. I’m sure there have been aircraft and tank models made, that were crewed by Medal of Honor recipients. The trouble here would be to get the critical references - because I think such a serious subject deserves through research.
I, for myself, have been thinking about building the Seasprite on which Clyde Lassen got his Medal of Honor while performing a SAR rescue over North Vietnam. But while there are a few photos of his machine available, the early Seasprites are very obscure types as the references go. So this will have to wait until something shows up online or as a book.
Good luck with your modelling projects and have a nice day
Paweł
Pawel’s point is well made.
There have been models built to do this–Butch O’Hare’s last plane comes to mind, as do the planes of a couple of “blue max” winners.
For things like the VC or the MOH, there’s not usually enough information on the circumstances to pin down enough to model in a logical way.
For example, SSgt Geo. Keathley (Texas A&M '37), he earned the MOH for actions on Mount Altuzzo, Italy, 1944. he organized two remaining platoons of his company and stood off 3 determined German counter-attcks in Company strength. One of the many actions noted in his citation include crawling among the dead and wounded to get ammunition for his beleagured platoons. Despite having a mortal grenade wound, and being in the middle of a firefight, he stood up and shot back at the enemy. Reads dramaitc, but, visually–maybe bit grim. Lost of mud, dead and wounded bodies.
Lt Turney Leonard ('42) was assigned to a Tank Destroyer Battallion, but had been seconded to the 112th IR when that unit went int0 the Hürtgen Forest. After the Company lost all its officers, Lt Leonard took charge and led the holding action against the Germans. He had been wounded in the left arm on the first day. On the scond day, a mortar round severed it entire. He asked to be left behind in a foxhole with a sidearm rather than be captured when the 112th withdrew.
Dramatic, but, visualy grim.
Oh, and the German who found Leonard’s Aggie ring brought it back to Germany afterwards. His son, eventually a Bundeswehr Oberst, went to the trouble in the preinternet days of contacting the University and returning Leonard’s Ring. The Colonel’s son attended A&M on an engineering scholarship and graduated with honors, and now wears Ring of his own. Stirring stuff–but really hard to build into a diorama.
The skipper of USS West Virginia earned an MOH at Peral Harbor–again, dramatic, but complicted visually. John Basilone–similar issue.
Someone beat you to it.
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Hello fotofrank. So some did, but this thread is not about being the first to do so. It’s about what we would like to build. Besides, the above model is not a scratchbuilt, it’s a kit.
To Ben’s thoughts, I got curious and did some quick research into the US MOH.
Half of all recepients were from the Civil War, followed by another 15% from Indian Wars and 15% from WW2. Non-combat, Vietnam and Korea are the other significant categories.
70 % of recipients were in the Army, 29% in the Navy/ USMC, 17 in the Air Force (didn’t exist in any of the big conflicts) and 1 USCG.
18% were posthumous.
I was always of the impression that Higgins built his bridge on the River Kwai from matchsticks. Hardly a kit involved in that. It was something of an ongoing sub plot running for several episodes if I remember right…
Audie Murphy’s would not be too hard to do. Dutch Cota’s or Teddy Roosevelt Jr’s D-Day exploits would be a bit more involved. Leo Thoseness or Merlin Dethlefsin’s Wild Weasel exploits are simply too dynamic to easily convey in a diorama due to the scope of their actions.
He may have done so, but it looks awfully similar to the kits, which suffer similar scale propblems. Here are some old kits I discovered on the Internet:
CORRECTION. I made an error!
Here is a link that tells us that there were more than one version of this build and it was not built by Higgins. Secondly, they are actually scratchbuild models.
Sorry for any misleadings.
http://magnumdecorator.blogspot.com/2011/06/omg-blog-post.html
I’ve got a lot to learn before making a diorama, but there are a couple of things I can think of that might be my goals.
I have an interest in nuclear power, so a model and diorama of a Russian nuclear icebreaker would be cool. I found an outline of someone making a diorama of the icebreaker Arktika, so I could do something similar by altering the Arktika kit that’s out there and making one of Yamal. I think you’ll agree the Yamal is a distinctive vessel:
On a more personal note, and something I might make way, way down the line as I’m not sure where to start: A diorama of the SS Central America disaster:
I dont think a kit of the ship exists (I couldnt find one). But I have a unique experience with the ship - I’ve photographed a lot of its recovered treasures.
Very impressive choices for a diorama(s).
Hope you bite the bullet and just get into it. Do lots of experiments, of the stuff you neeed to learn, before actual application. Your model will have a better chance of become more than you realize.
That breaker would be a great diorama.
Came accross this pic - I may actually try this one. Need to do a bit of research. Caption said: German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft at Frankfurt, Germany, 1945.
Any of you railway folks know what that cargo rail car is called specifically. I imagine it can be found in O scale ( 1/48 )
Actually O scale is hard because it isn’t a popular European model railroad scale. HO is easier, but there are a number that PIKO or LGB make/ made in G scale that look pretty much just like that one. A 1/24 airplane would look pretty good in it. Find an old Airfix glue bomb.
EDIT: and…we have a winner!