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Over in the GB section, as part of the De Havilland Mega GB, I built Tamiya's 1/72 De Havilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI. I decided to make it as if it were in flight so I purchased a couple of motors so it could have working propellers. Because it would need a base to house the batteries and switches I decided to use a small Wilkos picture frame on which I decided to create a small scene. I decided to use Zvezda's Snap-fit German Howitzer kit as the focal point of the base and the result can be seen below.

 

Aircraft Kit: 1/72 Tamiya De Havilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI/NF Mk.II

Howitzer Kit and figures: 1/72 Zvezda Snap-fit German Howitzer

Paints: Humbrol, Revell, Citadel and Railmatch Acrylics - all applied by brush

Base: Wilko's picture frame

 

A lot of photos of the Mosquito can be found here

The WIP for the whole project can be found here

A rather shaky YouTube video of the scene can be found here

 

The whole scene:

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The Howitzer and crew on the base:

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And finally a few from low down to try to give an impression of the aircraft flying overhead:

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4 hours ago, Rodders154 said:

Superb well done

Rodders 

Thank you very much Rodders! Most kind! :thumbsup:

Kind regards,

Stix

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1 hour ago, Vince1159 said:

Beautiful job Stix...

Thank you very much Vince. You are very kind. :thumbsup:

Knd regards,

Stix

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21 hours ago, speedy said:

Great imagination and looks really cool.

 

steve.

Hi Steve and thank you very much! :thumbsup:

Kind regards,

Stix

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I've said similar elsewhere, but this is stunningly, superb, especially at that scale.  As usual your photos do it justice. You know I love groundwork in particular and I'm thinking you've nailed this one on the head. And talking of heads, I've ducked a couple of times viewing this wonderfully evocative diorama!

 

Rearguards,

Badder.

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I really like this! The cherry-on-the-cake for me is the bomb falling towards the PAK. You can see how fast the Mossie was...the gun-crew have not even had time to react yet!

 

Thanks for sharing with us. 

 

Chris. 

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On 08/05/2017 at 10:42 PM, Rob 1 said:

That's amazing, the ground scene and the Mosquito, excellent work.

Hi Rob and thank you very much. :thumbsup:

Kind regards,

Stix

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On 5/9/2017 at 0:02 AM, Tony C said:

Have to agree with all of the above, a nicely detailed presented vignette  :thumbsup:

Hi Tony. Thank you very much for your kind comments. :thumbsup:

Kind regards,

Stix

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On 5/9/2017 at 11:19 AM, HL-10 said:

Great looking diorama!

Nicely finished, especially like the spinning props :goodjob:

Thank you very much for your kind comments. I have been quite pleased with how the props look although I have to take the photos in a certain way to make sure they show up in the images - in some of the photos I took it looked like there's nothing there! I think it depends on the direction of the light and what the background is behind them. 

Kind regards,

Stix 

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On 5/9/2017 at 7:58 PM, goggsy said:

Excellent work, probably the best brush painting I've ever seen. 

Hi goggsy. That really is very kind of you to say, thank you.

 

Kind regards,

Stix

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