Thanks very much chaps, and thank you all for your interest and encouragement during the course of this project.
From start to finish, not including time on research and photography, the build took a total of 173 hours to complete, of which 26 hours were spent on the diorama base. Kit used was the old Airfix example, originally released in the early 1960s, with my example dating from 1991. The bomb trollies came from the spares box, left over from an Airfix Stirling from around 30 years ago, figures are mainly converted Luftwaffe personnel from Revell, with a couple from the Airfix Fire Trucks set, bombs from the Revell Lancaster kit, SBCs from 'Belcher bits', hut and bicycles from the Willis Finecast model railways range, and other items scratch-built.
The presentation took place on Friday, 7th September, at the Newark Air Museum at Winthorpe, which is the site of a former WW2 HCU, and was arranged and conducted by Howard Heeley (from the Museum), who swears he had nothing to do with the very low, extremely fast fly-past by two Torndao GR4s, directly overhead and disturbing the trees, moments after the presentation!
I apologise for the colour cast in some of the pictures, and the lack of depth of field in others, as I was in a real rush at 08.00 on Friday morning, and didn't have time to set-up a proper lighting system.
The first shot shows Mike and I in front of a fuselage section from the well-known 9 Sqn Lancaster 'WS-J', which bore the 'Johhny Walker' nose art, and is preserved at the Museum.
I've also included an amended copy (in PDF format) of the background to the diorama, and I would like to thank Mike Harrison for all his help and info during the course of this project, and also Howard Heeley of NAM for arranging facilities for the presentation, and allowing access to photograph the Jaguar (for another project).
Thanks, of course, are also due to Andy (Crimea River), for introducing me to Mike, and being able to finally complete a project originally planned around 30 years ago!