A Snowy Hurricane

[Motley]

Ive been wanting to do alittle dio for ages, recently it was my birthday and my mum made me a card that had a picture of a Hurricane in a wintery scene and it was then i decided i was going to recreate that scene in model form. Soo recently ive been making the bits and today finally got round to finishing it. Its a Airfix Hurricane Mk.1a with Xtradecal decals and the little figure comes from the Airfix Raf Personel set.













Any critisms or comments are welcome,

Enjoy

[Dirkpitt289]

Nice. I have a Russian Hurricane that I'm planning on placing on a snowy base. Thanks for the inspiration

[JamesPerrin]

1. Looks excellent
2. What did you use? Look like loads of table salt
3. Cut the base off the figure

[Motley]

Thanks for the comments, and i used bicarbonate of soda for the snow James, im really pleased with it seeing its my first dio, might have to try more sooon

[DH-Drover]

One small point. You need some footprints between the figure and the cart.
But a good first effort:-)

Dai

[spitfire31]

Nice idea and quite effective – it definitely sets a mood.

I agree with James and Dai that some more work on the figure. No telltale base – attach him using a cut off clothespin or similar. That will also make it easier to fix the absent footsteps.

Good work!

/Joachim

[shangos70]

Looks great , very effective .

[Dazzled]

Very nice. I do like snow dios. I'm working my way (slowly) towards a 1/35th armour dio set in the Russian winter of '42-'43. (see my Hanomag build in the armour section).

I do feel sorry for the poor 'erk'. He looks in desperate need of an overcoat!

How about a few more details on how you achieved the impressive snow effect.

[migdriver]

looks great, try talcom powder i find it looks very fine (scale)it also stays white ,over time stuff like baking soda ,flour,gose brown(takes a while).talc stays white and it makes the room smell nice

[MerlinJones]

I was wondering about the longevity of the bicarb. The whole scene looks very nice, although I'd agree with losing the erks stand and adding footprints.

Regards,
Bruce

[Brickie]

By the way, it's been bugging me for ages every time I see the RAF Personnel kit - what actually is that little cart?

[harrybennett]

how did you get the bicarb to stay?

[Beowulf Shaeffer]

nice dio. i wouldnt know where to start!, hope you are going to do more sometime

By the way, it's been bugging me for ages every time I see the RAF Personnel kit - what actually is that little cart?

its a starter trolly....basically a big battery to plug into aircraft to jump start them

[Ian]

Very pleasing. Well done! Only build would be to not have so much snow under the aircraft. Maybe a little grass poking through?

[Motley]

Thank you again for all the nice comments

how did you get the bicarb to stay?

I havent used anything on it its just laying on the base and on the plane, although some of the snow has now fallen off the plane abit might have to get it back out and play with it

nice dio. i wouldnt know where to start!, hope you are going to do more sometime

I have a few ideas for little scenes like this so have to wait and see if i can get my back side in gear and make some of my ideas