I've just acquired a 1/72 scale PZL P.11 off eBay, and am thinking about producing a diorama of it attacking a Stuka head-on over Poland in September '39.
Has anyone any thoughts on this - in terms of damage to the Stuka but also of how to actually mount the aircraft in the right poses - would one of those two-kit Airfix bases do the trick or would I be looking at manufacturing something?
And if anyone knows of any pics of something similar knocking around, I'll be glad to see them...
Dogfight dio
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The problem with a head-on attack is that the two models will be so close that everyone will think they will crash head-on; if the PZL comes at it from any other angle, it's not so critical a problem.
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They had that effect on the Germans, toojRatz wrote:The problem with a head-on attack is that the two models will be so close that everyone will think they will crash head-on
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But I'm more thinking of it diving in from a steep angle, raking the Stuka before diving past behind it.
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The unfortunate Pole was just taking off from the base under attack, AFAIK, so odds-on he was either hit by bomb-blast or strafed by the five forward-facing MGs those things packed...Brews wrote:Historically, Stukas and PZL-11cs did face off. The first aerial victory of the war was a Polish fighter that fell to the guns of a Ju 87B. I don't know if the Stuka shot it down in a head-on attack or whether it caught the PZL from another aspect. Your mission, should you choose to accept it ...
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