Westfield Charlie
Airman 1st Class
New to the site, and nowhere near as fine a scale modeller as many if not most of the folks who have shown their models, but I do have fun! I posted a diorama a while ago and someone suggested that a few photos of my "shrinking diorama space" would be fun to see. So, warts and all, here it is.
The hobby room is in the basement, with the entrance guarded by a couple of Russians (Photo) using the furnace as cover. I added the skis to the Sturmovik (1/48 Accurate Miniatures Kit) the Lavochkin La-7 (Academy 1/48) is flying cover.
Walking in, you're greeted by a Battle of Britain overhead all 1/48 scale (Douglas Bader's Spitfire Revell) and a Hurricane (1/48 Hasegawa) in tight formation chasing a FW 190 chasing a (Monogram) all blue aerial recon P-38 (You can just see one prop) also being chased by a (Revell) Me109. In the middle distance a 1/32 Hasegawa Storch, then a Ju-52 (Pro-Modeler) escorted by a Macchi 202 and a Reggianne (all 1/48) center right has an Me410 diving out of the full spectrum sunlamps at a (Monogram) Mosquito about to drop its bombs on my desk.
Photo 3: Closing on the far wall, we get a better view of the Ju-52 gruppa, with several AFV dioramas on the black shelving left, a couple more ahead, and the B-17-G over the camoflaged Messershmidt hanger. Below that a crash landed B-25.
Photo 4: The B-17G (1/48, Revell/Monogram) diving over the bunker with the Me 262, Me 163, and Me 108 and a couple of intrepid pilots playing chess.
Photo 5: Banking right to avoid the B-17 which looks like it might be coming our way, we spot another AFV diorama, an outscaled corvette engine (and a large number of Avalon Hill wargames)
Photo 6: Hard right we spot the B-17's target--Anzio Annie in 1/35 scale, four feet long. Just come out of its tunnel. Below and left is an Acaemy Type IX Submarine 1/150th scale, to the right, three more AFV dioramas.
Photo 7: Close up of the Leopold railroad gun and the music center. CD's (mostly jazz) held in place by two Napoleonic cavalry troopers (Photo 8)
Photo 8: We get a low-level fly-by of the 18 ton FAMO tank transporter carrying a STug II (both 1/35 Tamiya) through a pass in the Monastir Gap. They've stopped by a hmule-drawn field kitchen for lunch.
Photo 9: We're banking hard right on our way out of here, in time to spot a C-47 (Monogram) dropping its paratoopers (see the parachutes), escorted by a P-47(Testors) of the famous Red Tails (all 1/48).
The 1/16 scale Academy 1928 Mercedes is probably safe, as are the rows of 1/25th scale sports cars, hot rods and classics. But we have to run the gauntlet one more time past the Russkies to get out.
Photo 10: And lest we forget, General Winter is the most fearsome enemy anyone entering Russia will face.
Hope you liked the tour. Please forgive the thin blue line in some of the photos: I'm still learning to use the equipment.
The hobby room is in the basement, with the entrance guarded by a couple of Russians (Photo) using the furnace as cover. I added the skis to the Sturmovik (1/48 Accurate Miniatures Kit) the Lavochkin La-7 (Academy 1/48) is flying cover.
Walking in, you're greeted by a Battle of Britain overhead all 1/48 scale (Douglas Bader's Spitfire Revell) and a Hurricane (1/48 Hasegawa) in tight formation chasing a FW 190 chasing a (Monogram) all blue aerial recon P-38 (You can just see one prop) also being chased by a (Revell) Me109. In the middle distance a 1/32 Hasegawa Storch, then a Ju-52 (Pro-Modeler) escorted by a Macchi 202 and a Reggianne (all 1/48) center right has an Me410 diving out of the full spectrum sunlamps at a (Monogram) Mosquito about to drop its bombs on my desk.
Photo 3: Closing on the far wall, we get a better view of the Ju-52 gruppa, with several AFV dioramas on the black shelving left, a couple more ahead, and the B-17-G over the camoflaged Messershmidt hanger. Below that a crash landed B-25.
Photo 4: The B-17G (1/48, Revell/Monogram) diving over the bunker with the Me 262, Me 163, and Me 108 and a couple of intrepid pilots playing chess.
Photo 5: Banking right to avoid the B-17 which looks like it might be coming our way, we spot another AFV diorama, an outscaled corvette engine (and a large number of Avalon Hill wargames)
Photo 6: Hard right we spot the B-17's target--Anzio Annie in 1/35 scale, four feet long. Just come out of its tunnel. Below and left is an Acaemy Type IX Submarine 1/150th scale, to the right, three more AFV dioramas.
Photo 7: Close up of the Leopold railroad gun and the music center. CD's (mostly jazz) held in place by two Napoleonic cavalry troopers (Photo 8)
Photo 8: We get a low-level fly-by of the 18 ton FAMO tank transporter carrying a STug II (both 1/35 Tamiya) through a pass in the Monastir Gap. They've stopped by a hmule-drawn field kitchen for lunch.
Photo 9: We're banking hard right on our way out of here, in time to spot a C-47 (Monogram) dropping its paratoopers (see the parachutes), escorted by a P-47(Testors) of the famous Red Tails (all 1/48).
The 1/16 scale Academy 1928 Mercedes is probably safe, as are the rows of 1/25th scale sports cars, hot rods and classics. But we have to run the gauntlet one more time past the Russkies to get out.
Photo 10: And lest we forget, General Winter is the most fearsome enemy anyone entering Russia will face.
Hope you liked the tour. Please forgive the thin blue line in some of the photos: I'm still learning to use the equipment.
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