Model Contest! A builders battle!
Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:28 pm
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.
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.
Last edited by Warbird Kid on Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:20 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:26 pm
Nice job Chris!
I like the Debden diorama and I really like the Corsair on a stick!
Do you have any other photos of the Cosair diorama?
Jerry
I like the Debden diorama and I really like the Corsair on a stick!
Do you have any other photos of the Cosair diorama?
Jerry
Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:32 pm
Sadly not right now. But you can come and take a look at it when ever you want. 
I've been thinking of making a second diorama piece.
It would depict a beatifully restored Corsair sitting comfortably INSIDE, next to a few other equally important examples of CT avation!
I've been thinking of making a second diorama piece.
It would depict a beatifully restored Corsair sitting comfortably INSIDE, next to a few other equally important examples of CT avation!
Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:07 am
I also really like the Debden and Corsair dio's. Nice work.
Great idea having a restored Corsair next to the one on a stick.
Great idea having a restored Corsair next to the one on a stick.
Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:34 am
Yeah. Right now I haven't really done much work but i hope to return to the 927 project. Received more of a hiccup with that project. But I'll be back on it soon.
Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:25 am
Great example of scale weathering on the Debden model. Well done
Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:06 pm
west-front wrote:Great example of scale weathering on the Debden model. Well done
I didnt play around with acrylic paints for like 12 years for nothin!
Thanks!
Yeah, dry brushing and layering can do wonders!