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This is the reason I haven't been around much for the last couple of weeks (what do you mean you hadn't noticed!) I've been trying to get this done before the end of the year. I've been itching to scratch build something for quite some time now. I thoroughly enjoyed building my RAF hut last year. And as a cross section through a building shows more of it's contents, I wanted to try something similar, but on a grander scale. As I build quite a few Luftwaffe subjects I decided to build some sort of rough and ready field hangar based on a barn like structure that most competent chippies at the time would be able to cobble together relatively easily and quite quickly. After I'd already come to this decision I found something similar online which helped. http://www.rlm.at/cont/gal28_e.htm#Anfang If some of the models look familiar, that's because this is more of a photo prop rather than a finished diorama. The models are all old builds and they will change over time. So you will be seeing this again in the future. It's 1/48 scale and it took four months in total to build, but I was doing quite a lot of other, non modelling stuff at the time so this isn't four months work. It was done on quite a tight budget and cost about £50, but £17 of that was two sets of figures plus some equipment. Not all the figures have been used because I didn't want to over-crowd the scene (also, I'm crap at doing figures and some had to be sent home early after failing to make the grade). The only other things I bought, are the balsa for the hanger frame, three bags of static grass and a tiny metal chain for the engine hoist. PLEASE NOTE: I'm more interested in visual appeal rather than historical accuracy, I tend to channel my inner six-year-old, (I want dat and dat and dat, coooooooool) so if anyone points out that one bit shouldn't be with another bit, or that bits the wrong shade of vermilion, I'll scweem and scweem until I'm sick. So that should be pretty entertaining. I apologise for the large number of photos. It's just that I'm quite please how it turned out. Thanks for all the help I received along the way. 1. Some of the bits I scratch built. Most of the contents of the table and bench aren't scratched (I did do the paint tins and the mugs), likewise I didn't scratch the engine (although I improved it). Spot the joke. 2. If it came down to putting a picture of Hitler anywhere it would have to be the loo. I couldn't bring myself to use one in the end, and substituted Charlie Chaplin. 3. The base is 24” x 18”. The soil is real soil from my garden. 4. The roofing is made from takeaway meal foil containers (sometimes you have to suffer for your art) shaped with my home-made corrugation die. That's about a weeks work for just the roof. 6. The blackboard picture is the most obvious joke. It's the assembly instructions for the Starfix Bf 109. Messerschmitt maintenance made easy. 7. I did wonder why an able bodied man would be painting, so put a double amputee to the task, with the steps holding his tin. 8. Being a reasonably competent carpenter, the frame of the hanger is as accurate as I believe it would have been. Even though it's only balsa, it's surprisingly strong. Spot the birds nest. 9. There are four different colours/lengths of static grass. The flowers are made with tiny bits of coloured foam. 10. This is the 1/48 Fuman 88mm Flak (not an easy kit). 12. The concrete floor of the hanger is made with (used) 80 grit sandpaper, over individual squares of cardboard to give it more of a 3D effect. 13. Tamiya's 3 ton truck (Opel Blitz). 14. Tamiya's Kubelwagen Type 82 (on the left) 18. Italeri Ju 87G-2 20. I carved the axe from a single piece of 1mm thick plastic card. Junk pile courtesy of the spares box. 23. Dragon Ba 349A Natter (much improved) with scratch built stand. 24. Italeri Kfz. 385 Tankwagen (Opel Blitz) – much altered. Thanks for taking the time to take a ganders. Comments will be very welcome (unless they're from rivet- trolls or colour-fascists or humourless history nazis etc.) Gorby