Oh and for those of you who like to diorama, a friend of mine has begun selling some Rasensteine pavers (in 1:48) that the Luftwaffe used to pave/camo Taxiways and Revetments, from 1943 onwards; most notably in dispersals set up for 'Silber' (Me 262), such as those at Grove. Both of us were a bit sick of seeing the 'parked on planks' type Diorama (of which when we started looking we could find little photographic evidence of, spare a Bf 109G in the east and some Fw 190D's TAXIING over some boards), however the Rasensteine was used all over the place! Even today, ppl dig them up from old airbases and use them to pave things!
For those that dont know, these things were hexagonal concrete pavers, with holes molded into them - they were laid on a base of (normally) gravel (for drainage) and then 'backfilled' with earth, allowing grasses to grow up through the holes, eventually almost obliterating any visible concrete in many areas, but still providing a solid, non-boggy taxiway/hardstand area... Slioghtly more over grown that luftwaffe would have let the go, the following shows how easily grasses camouflaged the taxiways and revetments (from an awesome web site, run by a great guy I know called Michäel -
http://www.gyges.dk/):
And this is what my buddy is making:
Initially he is selling packs of 6 sprues (72 pavers, which will cover about a 15 x 18cm area, unless you get tricky and use some cunning to model more over-grown areas), and currently modelling some 28 x 28cm diorama bases (which will be the cheaper way to go I'd say) in the near future (see pic of prototype below). His stuff isn't cheap, but the resin used is incredibly good (denser and nicer to work with than Verlinden or even the CMK or Aires stuff in my opinion) and of the test shots (and even the rejects) that he gave me the other day, I cant find a single, visible air bubble!
Prototype Rasensteine base:
Rasensteine can be found here -->
Scale Solutions ; the aforementioned 'diorama bases' can be found here -->
Scale Solutions
Dan