60 Year Tribute

[Paul821]

60 years ago the Remembrance service at Little Maplestead church in Essex had a special guest. who had also dropped in a few weeks earlier:

 

This is from an copyright free US newspaper

 

 

At the service Pilot Major Douglas D. Steward was presented with a framed print of the church.

 

To mark this anniversary I have used an OOB Testor's T33 as the basis for this simple diorama. I realise this is a different livery to the crashed example but it ads a bit of colour. It is in WIP as I still have to add decals and some hedges and on lookers,

 

 

 

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Slight pause while I waited for the onlookers to arrive.

 

 

 

25 figures from GM Models for under £4 including postage. I found them via a commonly used search engine.

 

This is what you get

 

 

 

They are 1:50th scale but they should not look too out of scale when in one corner of the diorama.

 

I selected these as being those that looked more of the period - late 1950's. I will not use all six.

 

 

 

 

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Now complete so pictures in ready for inspection.