RAF ww2 airfield diorama scratch build progress

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RAF ww2 airfield diorama scratch build progress

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Interesting ! Was the hangar from plans, or did you sort of eye-ball it ?
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The hanger was eyeballed. I had a nose at a few war era hanger pics to get the basics, found some balsa wood the right size ish for the dimension that I wanted and it went from there :)
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Nice work it looks good.
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
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Cheers splash, will post pics when it's all done :)
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Hangar looks great!
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Cheers Paul :) and agreed, never can you have too many spitfires!!!! :)
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OllieSmith wrote:Cheers Paul :) and agreed, never can you have too many spitfires!!!! :)
Unless they're Italeri mkVbs :shock:

Nice diorama work Ollie.
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Haha, I'm guessing the italeri isn't that's great then daz? Cheers daz :)
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OllieSmith wrote:Haha, I'm guessing the italeri isn't that's great then daz? Cheers daz :)
It's a nightmare. No wonder they sell so cheap on eBay. :roll:

Are you having issues with photos Ollie?
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Yes big issues daz, my photo bucket has messed up and all my photos have gone!!!! I've emails them about it, waiting on a reply :/ not a happy bunny lol
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