I did some work on the resin hardstand for my Focke-Wulf Red 1–it’s a “Just Plane Stuff” hardstand. The ground is an uneven airbrushing of alternating Pollyscale Mud, Pollyscale Dirt, and Tamiya Flat Earth Acrylic, the wooden planks were painted with ModelMaster enamel in several colors: Wood, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, a little RLM02 Grau, and a little Flat Black. I subsequently gave the planks a dilute wash of burnt umber and lamp black oil paint, applied various weathering powders and pastels (dirt, earth, dust, soot, etc.), applied some streaking with dark gray pastels to represent tire marks, added some drips and stains with Gunze Sangyo “oil” acrylic (great stuff!), and, well, just generally weathered the heck out of it. I plan on adding various shades of mixed Woodland Scenic coarse turf to the earthen areas–going for yellowish green, burnt yellow, essentially a mixture so it doesn’t look like a golf course, with grass growing up between the planks. It is supposed to be Germany in the spring, so the climate is likely to be damp. How does it look? Critique is more than welcome!
Looks excellent, but how did they burn the plane? If they used a bomb or gas, there should be char marks on the stand- try taking a butane lighter with a long tip, and burn a vague outline into the wood. I did it once, although I used pine strips which burn fast, for a burnt out Iraqi T-72 model. Also, how did you make your bullet holes? I use different sized cut-off fork tynes that I warm up on a candle, then I puncture the plastic.
No one is really sure how the cockpit fire on the Red 1 was set, or even if it was a cockpit fire, and it is actually only conjecture that it was set deliberately, to prevent capture…if that is what happened, then apparently they must have changed their minds! Certainly they could have done a much more satisfactory job of disabling the aircraft if they really wanted to–that is what grenades are for (actually, that is exactly what the JV44 did to the Me262’s when the Allies were approaching–a grenade in each jet engine!). It seems that the plane was still flyable (or at least could taxi) after the cockpit fire, as the photographs all show the fire damage, but show the plane in various locations on the airfield. Also, I really didn’t depict any battle damage or bullet holes–there are no reports that the Focke-Wulfs of the JV44 actually engaged any enemy aircraft during their assignment, so no battle damage (the cause of the prop blade damage is uncertain, but it is apparent in the photographs). There are some oil stains and drips on the hardstand, which might look a bit like bulletholes.
