A Malta diorama....

Lucky13 · Mar 23, 2014

Just found this while snooping around....

just-bases

fubar57 · Mar 23, 2014

Cool, and here's some bricks and sandbags...Scale Model Bricks - Scenics And those are your basic needs, time to get or be committed. :twisted:

Geo

Airframes · Mar 23, 2014

You do realise old chap, that for roughly the cost of one of those plain bases, you could make around four from a single sheet of MDF?

Lucky13 · Mar 23, 2014

I wouldn't know old boy, is 400mm x 400mm x 12mm, MDF, for £6.50, expensive? I see that there's a 50% deposit for orders over £20, seriously doubt it'll be over that, £20 or so, is probably what it would cost to get around town here, to find and then bring home the blasted things, which in the end would be easier with a taxi...

:lol:

Lucky13 · Mar 23, 2014

Also found these....

Lucky13 · Apr 3, 2014

12mm Plain MDF – 400mm x 400mm and at £6.50, but would it be big enough for a 1/48 bird in a blast pen...?

Wurger · Apr 3, 2014

Measure the wingspan of the model you'll know.

Lucky13 · Apr 3, 2014

Wingspan 234mm and the fuselage 193.3mm.....

Wurger · Apr 3, 2014

Well.. there shouldn't be any trouble with making the diorama.

fubar57 · Apr 3, 2014

Looks like four feet on either side of the wing tips give or take,= 25mm in scale, give or take.

Geo

Lucky13 · Apr 3, 2014

Maybe add a few mm, as a blast pen is to be made, mounted at an angle....
Question is though, were different blast pens used at the same airfield, old empty cans (filled with sand), sandbags, limestone and corrugated sheeting....

In this case No. 185 Squadron at Hal Far (Stenborg) and No. 249 Squadron at Ta' Qali (Beurling)..

Lucky13 · Apr 3, 2014

Never mind, just remembered, realised, callitwhatyawant, that the base is 400 x 400 mm, should be plenty of space!

Lucky13 · May 3, 2014

Where is da place to get the appropriate sand for this?

fubar57 · May 3, 2014

Malta?

Geo

Wurger · May 3, 2014

Wurger · May 3, 2014

Lucky13 said:
Where is da place to get the appropriate sand for this?

However here you are a close up shot of the Malta soil. It is brick-coloured , often almost red. So you will have to paint your sand , unless you can find a red one.