This past weekend I again entered the local model contest held by the IPMS of Stratford. Here I’ve posted pics of the 4 separate dioramas I entered.
Some of you may have remembered a couple of them from last year. But the shots are way better than last years! Kudos to the photographer!
1st A CBI. P-51A pilot gettin’ his first kill on a Zero without killing the worthy adversary.
I call it: "Merciful Victory" or "Merciful Opponent"
Next is my B.O.B. setup. I love this one and ended up gettin’ second place in the "diorama division” for this one. Competition wasn’t as fierce in dioramas as in the “1/72nd and smaller prop”. This category I would have had to enter into. I really tried to make this one authentic.
I call it: “Hurricanes at Tangmere Aerodrome”
Ok, new one, and a lovely one at that! Of course many of you nuts out there are Don Gentile fans and I thought this ended up being a pretty cool little setup. Though cutting the canopy and adding new sections was annoying. But now it looks like Gentile just shut down in a muddy portion of the field and is sitting on the wing.
I call it: “Muddy Mustang” or “Muddy Debden” (not sure on which one. What do you guys think?)
And last but not least I decided to do something different. So far I haven’t really seen too many dioramas depicting planes on poles (except for a 1/48th diorama of the B-17 gas station) So I decided to do the local bird that’s been the center of so much debate.
I call it “Birds of a feather”
Also: This is what beat me for 1st in dioramas! A guy named John Yeager if not mistaken from Long Island.
