P51B Mustang :Turning an old aquarium into a diorama

[Night Fighter Nut]

Greetings all,
I have been thinking on this for some time and decided to finally go with it... First off the stats...
Night Fighter Nut
Academy's P-51B
1:72nd scale
One old six sided plastic aquarium... Prior occupants have long since been deceased and turned to ashes.
Assorted ground work put together from stuff found from a model railway show in Plano Texas... You should see what they have there every year. simply amazing.
2yr old imagination. i.e. what do you mean I can't do that? watch me.

 

[Wurger]

Looking good.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Here are some accompanying photos. Sorry for the quality, used my phone's camera.

 

[Wurger]

I like it. A very nice idea.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Added information for intellectuals:
USAAF P-51B-1-NA, F/O Fred Glover
336th FS/ 4th FG, England, 1944

Oh, almost forgot. I found that I can stack these things which, for some, is a great space saving commodity.

 

[mikewint]

Agreed...very chool idea

 

[hal bregg]

Looks good !

 

[N4521U]

Now why the H3!! didn't I think of that for a Lancaster I have??????????

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

I'm going to use the other half for a mig 3. I'll record the process here if its agreeable?

 

[N4521U]

I'm going to use the other half for a mig 3. I'll record the process here if its agreeable?

well of course!

 

[Tieleader]

Let her rip!

 

[Babaganoosh]

Beautiful build and display idea.

 

[mikewint]

Aber Naturlich!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Noice!

 

[Crimea_River]

Neat idea.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work!

 

[ptraney]

That is a really great idea and presentation!

 

[fubar57]

Interesting and space saving at the same time

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Alright then, I'm back. Time to get this little tutorial started. Maybe I should put this in another area? I don't know.

Some time ago, I acquired a hexagonal 1gal aquarium. I looked at it and thought, "I could do something with this."

This is about what it looked like but an older version minus the occupants.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

At first I wanted to cut it into three segments and make three dioramas. I changed my mind when I considered adding trees. The smaller half became what you see above. The other half, which is 2/3rds taller, I decided to use with a 72nd scale Mig 3 I had built for my father-in-law who passed away a couple of years ago. This decision was made because of a cat I have that has destroyed the plane twice. Time for more drastic measures. As a side note, our cat is black and nicknamed, "Dark Matter."

This should give you an idea of the size compared to the plane inside.