What about the L-4 Cub pilot and observer shooting down a Storch with .45’s in April 1945 Germany. Or the C-47 “Missbehaving” losing both engines over the Bastogne dropzone, and coming in for a crashlanding when it hits a deuce and a half on a road and flips it around.
DAM BUSTERS
I’d like to do something along these lines…
I would love to do this, given the figures
Or something like this from the Marianas Turkey Shoot using different scales to force perspective
I love this imagery. What an awesome artwork.
I started working on one years ago. Lt. Baldomero Lopez going over the seawall at Inchon. Soon after he was killed after jumping on a grenade and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
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Great story. I hope you get back into it and share your progress with us on it. Would like to see it come together.
This would be cooll–although, to be fair, it would just be a Lanc over a water base.
IIRC, the bombs were released rather a distance back from the dam. And, after release, the triangulation lights were turned off and the a/c climbed away from the AAA on the dam. (Reality can spoil box art is such rude ways . . . [:)])
That is not necessarily so.
First of all, I see nothing wrong with the bomb bouncing along towards the dam wall, as it is shown. The lancasters have already ascended a fair way in such a short distance. The fire below the dam is a bomb that bounced over the wall from the previous attempt. The triangulation lamps ought to be off, but out of all the excitement the bombardier was delayed in switching it off.
Besides, it does not have to be precise as in reality. For a diorama, it needs to convey some story and drama. All the elements for a drama is there in the above image. Even you said it looked cool, and that is all that matters. An image that holds in mind as to what happened at that time of busting the dams.
This is a doable diorama. It could look exactly how it is portrayed in the paining. IMHO
The maximum release point calculated by Barnes Wallis was 3/4 mile, the minimum 3/8 mile.
His notes show that it was anticipated the bomb would skip at least three times and pretty much hit the dam wall.
Thats the Mohne Dam in the painting.
Both AJ-A and AJ-J scored direct hits, with both Gibson and Martin flying alongside to draw fire.
Apparently the painting is of AJ-A with Gibson beyond.
The fire is from AJ-M’s mine, which bounced over the dam and hit the power house.
The question I would pose to myself would be how do so more than recreate the painting and a lot like it, while bringing a fresh perspective to the event. And doing a nightime diorama means a controlled display.
But a pretty cool subject.
I have actually been working on this scene for the past year, and have just completed it. I will make a new post, and refrain from posting a picture here, as was requested in the original post…
I am also kicking round a few other ideas in my head, in the planning stages are a follows:
A scene. (Similar to the Dambusters raid, seeing as though George Lucas took the final scene in starwars right from the movie Dambusters!) With luke’s x wing bombing the exhaust port of the deathstar…
A forced perspective scene with an American Helldiver beginning his dive on the Japanese fleet
Also, the USS Constitution in rough seas…I may practice that one on revell’s pirate ship first…
I may also do a mid air refuel scene (as a ceiling hanger in my son’s bedroom) between a KC135 and another aircraft…
Wow, Justinryan215, I am looking forward to seeing your diorama.
Please lets us know, and provide a hyperlink, when it is posted in a new thread.
OH, I just found it. For those that are wondering about this, here is the link to this wonderful diorama:
For some reason the hyperlink does not work. Try copy and paste in address window.
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/19/p/178308/2006275.aspx#2006275
Like you other ideas too.
I’ve found that building a model, and then just putting it on a shelf is somewhat boring, and lacking context. Even if it is just putting it on a small base with some groundwork, or in the case of,my Tamiya Zero WIP , a small base with a small sliver of flight deck, gives it that context that it needs to make it a bit more interesting.
Many years ago there was a diorama just like that in a hobby shop that I used to visit. It was with the old Monogram kit that had been dressed up, and had a 1/700 IJN ship, a destroyer if I remember right…
One other diorama idea that I have had in my head for many years is based off a bit of combat footage that was shown in Victory at Sea, during the battle for Manila in 1945. US tanks and infantry are shown fighting in the baseball field clearing out the Japanese in the dugouts and stands.
I forgot to add that I am also planning a pinewood derby car for next year’s derby with my son’s pack for the “outlaw” class -for parents and siblings-it will be the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware river, but as a derby car…
Re a Dambusters diorama: When I was working in Iran I ran into a modeler who wanted to build a diorama. His plan was to use 2 transparent glass/plastic rods to support the model positioned where the lights were installed meeting on the water base with a light to replicate the two beams meeting on the water. He also planned to have the bomb just entering the water (partialy visible with appropriate splash.) in the immediate background. Neat concept …never found out if he competed the project.
He had a son with moderate mental/physical challenges who helped with all his projects. Apparently his son was an artist with an airbrush.
Thanks for sharing sharkbait, that is a neat idea. Even using clear plastic rod / tubing will fill with light.
