Main impetus for this
diorama was to finally use up the Airwaves white metal Spanish Republican
figures which I must have originally bought about thirty years ago. They are
very fine castings. Also excellent is the fuel bowser - another long-ago
purchase whose manufacturer I can now no longer recall.
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Alas, I cannot use
the same positive adjectives for the ICM kit. I don't believe I've ever had such
a small model give me such a huge amount of problems. It's like a typical
limited run model - ie with a complete lack of locating points yet the thing
includes a high level of detail (especially in the cockpit). With such a lack of
location points and mediocre instructions squeezing all the supplied parts into
the cockpit pretty much defeated me.
Even getting the seat in the right position was really difficult.
Then there's that one-piece upper wing. Get this wrong and the model will never
look right. Aargh. And only butt-mountings for wing and undercarriage
struts. Stick, check, pull apart. Stick, check . . . you get the idea.
Finish utilized my normal Tamiya acrylics,
brushed on.
Wanting to make this diorama typical for time and place, a little internet
research brought up pictures of dusty, sunny places often with some kind of bomb
shelters. Thus my inspiration for the part-structure on the right. It's just
made from expanded polystyrene covered in white glue-soaked tissue with front façade
and steps from plastic card.
Greg
Kerry
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