Airfix 1:76 Bofors 40mm

[IvanV22]

I remember building this as a kid, so it was really fun building it again, especially as I in the military was a computer operator on a later model of the Bofors the L-70.
The kit was built right out of the box , I just added some gun sights made from copper wire ( which could have been in a smaller diameter!).








The base is made from play clay , sandbags also play clay and wood is match sticks, everything is painted with Vallejo and hobby acryl paints. The doors for the bunkers are made from plastic card with handles from staples. The camouflage nets are made from the wrapping found around vegetables. The ammo boxes are made from wooden ice cream sticks. To add a little life I added some Heller figures. The frame around the base is the bottom of a sweet box , so when I put the top on it’s dust proof!









Hope you like it! I feel like I’ve spent an eternity on this kit, but once I finish a kit I have to start one or two more…

[iggie]

Excellent diorama and a great build

[IvanV22]

Thanks Iggie!

[AndrewR]

Superb diorama, Ivan. I think this is one of Airfix's best 1/76 kits. I added a turned brass gun barrel to the Bofors, which made a difference.

[JohnRatzenberger]

That's excellent. I assume that is a desert diorama, but I've seen some photos of emplacements along the Channel hat look very much like that, you have captured a gun emplacement very well.

[nashorn]

A brilliant diorama.

Rich

[TobyC]

I can reiterate what others have said. Great result

[ShaunW]

That is a really excellent diorama Ivan, very well done

[ntrocket88]

That looks the business!

[IvanV22]

Thank you very much for all your kind comments!!
Yes John it’s a dessert setting, but the gun emplacement is an in-between from what I remember from my military service as a computer operator on the later L-70 and what I image it would be in WW2.
Looking over my post one more time I realise that I don’t have a photo from above…Sorry…




The setting is that in front of the gun is a hatch to the gun crew bunkers, on the left is the ammo bunker and one the right is the tunnel to the gun commanders dugout . Outside one the right are the cannons wheels under a camo net. ( the hatches are made from plastic card and handles for staples cut in two.

The idea of the diorama is that the gun commander spots unidentified aircraft and sounds guns alert, the gun crew rush to there places, while the lorry and its crew who are delivering ammo rushes to get away.

[madmike]

Very nice!