1/48 scale Revell B17-G Crash Landing Diorama

[Fighter Jock]

I got an old 1/48 scale Revell B-17G for Christmas this year and I've always wanted to build my own version of Shepard Paine's crash landing diorama. I have a book in my collection called "Strangers in a Strange Land" it's about allied aircraft captured by the Germans in WW2. It has a lot of pictures of crashed B-17s with Luftwaffe personnel and vehicles. I'm planning to do a diorama like that I will post some pictures as soon as I can.

This is the diorama by Shepard Paine

I'm thinking about getting this to use as the vehicle in the diorama, that way I get both the car and some figures.

 

[fubar57]

This should be very cool. Good luck.

Geo

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool idea, looking forward to it.

 

[Tony Hill]

Sounds great. Good luck with it!

 

[Fighter Jock]

I have a few pictures to post of the plane I don't have the staff car and figures yet and I need them to start on the base. I'm planning to have the plane crashed in a farmers plowed field somewhere in occupied France. Having just torn the starboard outer wing panel off in a stand of trees. I still need to do a little more weathering to the plane yet but it's just about done. Now all I need is the car and figures so I can finish this project up.

I'm thinking about making the base look like this picture.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Great work. Very convincing damage.

 

[Catch22]

That looks pretty darn cool!

 

[Tony Hill]

Nice one!

 

[Lucky13]

Awesome!!

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nicely done so far!

 

[Westfield Charlie]

Looking good! And I built that 1/48th Citroen a while back. It's a beautiful little model. Should make a fine addition to the diorama.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff so far. And I agree, the little Citroen is a nice kit.

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice!

 

[Fighter Jock]

Thanks for the comments guys, I'm still waiting for the 1/48th scale Citroen kit to arrive at my LHS I have started on the ground work though adding a couple of intact trees and some torn up ones. I will try to post more pictures next week of what I have done on the base.