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Amazing work! Very nice 🙂

Sad scene, great rendition though. Congrats!

This is rich!

Oh COME ON!!! That is RIDICULOUSLY GOOD!!

Went out getting some real life inspiration down at the Heath on Monday A couple of leds in the exhausts really doesn’t do full afterburner take off justice! Anyway few more bits on the Starfighter are done. Top tanks are ready to be painted, optional under wing second set or a pair of Aim-7s. Might fit the second tanks to the Dutch one if I fit the Aim-7s on this one. Also built the internal canopy frame although you can barely see it here In my on going quest for ground equipment I came across this item on ebay Quite like it but the price was more than I wanted to pay, plus it has import duty from China to pay. Anyway, I got a discount offer so got one. This is what you get thinking of using it like the Houchin as a template, casting wheel copies & building a few. Even get two bombs with it! Off on hols this week so no new progress for a week or so. If you are heading off on hols too have safe trips

excellent work

Funny fto hear that from you. I was consulting the pics of your diorama and talking about a model convention to come close to us and him to say "why don't you participate to competitions?" A bit too late for this year but he planted a seed there 😉

Thank you all so much! This was one heck of a project from beginning to end. I’m glad you all like it! I am starting a sister build to this one which will be an American counterpart. It will be displayed next to it on the shelf. Furthermore, both finished builds will be entered into the IPMS competition coming to my town in September. If interested, the new build can be found here -

Great diorama with lots to enjoy. Jeremy

My girlfriend didn't get why I was so excited to see it pass by on Reddit, I showed her pictures and she was astonished by the work. She was even wondering how the hell did you managed to do such realistic background trees. It is indeed a great work and definitely deserve all the shout-out it could have. Great accomplishment and I do love the busyness of the scene as a whole. Definitely an inspiration for future work, and very good photography work as well

For long dry grass natural paint brush bristles do the trick or sometimes I use plumbers hemp. It’s natural coloured, fine and cheap plus you can cut to any length you want. ATB Paul

I’d already decided that I’d need a bit more treatment for the roadway and concluded that pigments would play a part in this. I’ve an in-borne reluctance to resort to specific model-making products as they tend to be a bit pricey, so I’m always on the look-out for alternatives. I had a search on Fleabay for coloured tile grout and found a source of concrete/grout etc. pigments. These come in a wide variety of colours and various pack sizes – the smallest being 50g for only a handful of quids. I ordered some “cream” and “nut brown” – pretty good matches for sandy and earthy soil I think. Combined with grey or white tile grout (which I already have for err, tiling jobs around the home) I should be able to get all the tones I need. Here's my new palette – neatly decanted into little jam pots…. White grout, grey grout, cream and nut brown pigments. I dusted a mix of white grout and cream pigment onto the roadway and sprayed a dash of hairspray over it to fix it. It returned to a slightly too orange tone for my tastes, so I added some more neat white grout dry-dusted over areas and glued on some crushed up cat litter for rocks and stones which got diluted washes of acrylic browns and tan colours to tone down the rather harsh white litter. The mud/earth areas got a touch of the nut brown pigment. And so onto foliage – I painted a piece of greaseproof paper in a variety of green and brown acrylic colours on both sides. And once dry, stamped out a collection of leaves. I also applied some green wash paint to an old paintbrush. This lot, along with a few different static grasses were PVA’d onto the base. To be honest, I’m not that happy with the results. The static grass isn’t very “static” – I think the batteries in my homemade applicator might be a bit flat, and the long grass just looks rubbish. Ok for marsh reeds, but not very meadow-ish. I really can’t find a good way to get long, dry summer grass. Any tips out there? It also occurs to me that the plentiful leaves probably shouldn’t be as green as they are. I think I may revisit this one before I’m done.

Remember this kit well I believe I got it included with the Airfix hercules kit in about 1969 or 1970 .You have done them justice, looks great.

Great work thanks for sharing them 👍

Excellent realistic piece of modelling. Well done 👏

Excellent piece of work, looks great 👍

For many years I modelled the neighbouring Rhodesian campaign so understand the challenge of finding appropriate vehicles and figures. Normally it requires lots of repurposing and imagination.

Some very realistic pictures there. Excellent work and very impressive.

Outstanding work and a great result! I had to take my time scrolling through the pictures for fear of missing something .... so much detail! Keith 😁

That is outstanding!

Very nicely finished and presented - I like it a lot. 😎👍

Superb!

I'd say it looks pretty goood from where I'm sitting!

Great work! Paul

And that’s a wrap! This 1/48 Luftwaffe maintenance diorama was by far my largest undertaking to date. It has assets from roughly 17 different kits and various components that I made from scratch. The following brands and kits were used: •Eduard Fw 190 A-7 Kit •Eduard Brassin Fw 190A-7 Engine and Guns •Eduard Brassin Fw 190A landing flaps •Eduard Brassin Fw 190A Wingroot Gun Bays •Eduard Look Fw 190 A-7 •Eduard Fw 190 D-9 Kit •Eduard Brassin Fw 190 A-4 engine •Tamiya Kubelwagen Type 82 •Tamiya German aircraft power supply unit & Kettenkraftrad •Tamiya German tank crew & field maintenance set •Tamiya brick wall, sandbag, & barricade set •ICM Luftwaffe ground personnel •ICM Luftwaffe pilots & ground personnel •MiniArt German fuel drums •MiniArt German Jerry cans •MiniArt Field workshop •MiniArt Wooden barrels Thank you to everyone that followed and supported the build along the way! The WIP thread can be found here - Completed thread for Fw 190A-7 - Completed thread for Fw 190D-9 -