1/48 WWII Airfield Diorama - Somewhere in the South Pacific

[30sqnatc]

Jul 31, 2019 18:01:18 GMT 12 Dave Homewood said:

If you are creating a beach you should add some of the little yachts and droptank canoes that the RNZAF coastal island stations all had for recreation.

Darn I must talk to the little voices in my head about blabbering the ideas we have. That was supposed to be a secret

[Dave Homewood]

So does that mean you are looking for details of the yachts too?

[30sqnatc]

Sure all I have seen are some pictures in Without Reserve by Alain Paisey.

[30sqnatc]

After days in bed with horrible cough I'm finally starting to feel human again and do some modelling focusing on the rear bodywork.

[johnnyfalcon]

Hurry up and get better!

[30sqnatc]

Working on the two hose reels from plastic and brass bent into rings. After I took the photo I realised that the spokes are on the outside of the centre hub - wrong, they should be on the inside so the hose is retained by the spokes. A wee bit of deconstruction is required.



Almost done.

[30sqnatc]

With a coat of paint it is starting to look the part and hide its mixed origins.

IMG_3405 by tankienz, on Flickr

[30sqnatc]

I'm trying to get it finished before heading overseas for work trip.

IMG_3407 by tankienz, on Flickr

IMG_3408 by tankienz, on Flickr

[30sqnatc]

Some bigwig from Wellington visiting today wanted to inspect our MT.



So we lined it all up and away he went inspecting wheel nuts or something. I'm not sure what he made of the Japanese dozer or roller at the back.



Luckily one of the Yank photographers was around at the time so we managed to get him to take a colour photo as well.

[johnnyfalcon]

Nice progress, it's looking very realistic. Well done! I'm enjoying the updates, thanks.

[baz62]

Wow this is going to look fantastic when she's all done.

[30sqnatc]

Travelling with work this week so back to cutting out coconut palm tree fronds in hotel rooms. Now do I declare them as plant materiel when reentering NZ - haha

[saratoga]

Yes,apparently on the card and verbally...or its of to the slammer for you!

[axelford]

Cool project, I’m assuming you will weather all the vehicles? Especially ones like that Jap roller.

[30sqnatc]

Yes the two Jeeps and the Clarktor already have several washes of white coral dust. The rest will follow.

[30sqnatc]

Now adding final bits and pieces but still to figure out what the pump looked on the rear of the body/step

[30sqnatc]

Another couple of weeks of overseas hotel rooms produced lots of coconut fronds so 20 trees now finished and planted with enough fronds for several more trees still to paint.

[30sqnatc]

I started this one ages ago but it has finally got to the top of the 'to do' list, a Chev C8AC 8 cwt CMP. The donor chassis is an Airfix Bedford MWD.

ww2db.com/ by tankienz, on Flickr


I plan to make two more No 13 cabs in parallel to enable models of C30 ambulance and C60 machinery trucks to follow.

[30sqnatc]

I do need to sort out the sit of the cab but otherwise going well.

[30sqnatc]

As its a sunny day I took the opportunity to move the garage contents around so I could play around with the baseboards and track layout. The wharf baseboard may yet be orientated East West.

Beach scene with two wharfs, one built with local materials and the other Seabee, a floating dock sections.



RNZAF sawmill on the back rail siding, stores area with quonset huts on foreground siding.



The control tower will move to the far knoll with jungle trees on the sole in front. Stripped Lightening to be added to the wreck dump.