RAF Linton-on-Ouse, smaller diorama
I was quite pleased with my first diorama effort. This diorama remained at the Montreal Aviation Museum, on loan, from Ronald C. Loucks; it was displayed for nearly one year in the museum's Art Gallery.
1/76 Airfix Bedford tanker. I added a fire extinguisher fashioned for sprue material, and 3/64" shrink electronic tubing to one of the un-tanglers.
Ron: "What brand of cigarettes is he smoking?"; June: "Should he be smoking there at all?"
1/72 Airfix Bedford water tender, without the ugly (in my view) spare tire.
1/76 Airfix Matador 2 500 gallon tanker. Note the purple steering wheel. Why purple? Amusing but true answer further in this album.
1/72 Airfix Tilly utility truck.
1/72 Bedford utility truck.
1/72 oil bowser.
1/72 Airfix David Brown tractor. There is one of those 0purple steering wheels again!
1/72 Airfix bomb troleey and 500 pounders.
1/72 Airfix trolley bomb trolley with 500 pounders.
1/72 Airfix bomb trolley with 250 pounders.
1/72 bomb trolley with 4 000 pound cookie.
1/72 Airfix trolley with 8 000 pound cookie (flash glare on rear right tyre). Why "MAT", you say? Explanation later.
1/72 trolley with incendiaries.
Other side of "MATH"
1/72 Airfix bomb trolley.
1/72 Airfix maintenance scaffolding.
1/72 Airfix maintenance scaffolding.
1/72 500cc motorcycle. Ahh, purple tank.
1/72 bicycle, faded purple seat.
Cast of supporting actors.
Same cast.
Same cast.
Main star with the cast of supporting actors.
Ditto.
Cast.
Helen Back fictional nose art created by Wiliam Burns of CanMilAir custom decals (London, Ontario).
Ditto.
Ditto.
Cow with smeared lipstick. A satisfied purple bull going for his next conquest.
On loan and displayed in the Art Gallery of the Montreal Aviation Museum.
With Airfix 1/76 Queen Mary, tractor, crane, fire truck, and that purple bull AGAIN!
I use black and white filters to create photographs as they most likely appeared during WWII.
Detail of port landing gear.
General view of lower surfaces.
Close-up.
Imagine 1 000 of these on one mission!
More details.
Ditto.
Hedgehog exhaust and wheel well (port) details.
Detail, dorsal turret
A teaser: the second RAF Linton-on-Ouse diorama getting there; 6 months in building, 3'6" x 2'. Currently on permanent display in the Art Gallery of the Montreal Aviation Museum. Much more in its own album later.
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23 February 2017, 15:01
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This diorama was commissioned by my university hall-mate to commemorate his Father's wartime contributions as Senior Flying Control Officer at RAF Linton-on-Ouse (Yorkshire) from 1942 to 1945.