HOW TO BUILD AIRCRAFT DIORAMAS

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Ken' Camel!

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Jim Landon's modified kit.It doesn't get any better than this!

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Looking at the above pic,the Nieuport28 has to be the most beautiful designed airplane of its day!

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Originally Posted by PrzemoL

Thank you, John, for your comments on modelling and diorama making being an art. It is truly so! Your voice somehow fits to the general discussion we have on Polish modelling forum and modelling press concerning ideas behind modelling. There is still a great group of people who consider modelling as a play, a passtime only. But there is more to it, definitely, as your and many others work clearly show. Once more, thank you for sharing the results of your creation! I especially like the overall view you showed this weekend, though obviously the close ups on details are also very appealing!

As you can see above there are so many roads that you can take as a modeler.None is better than the other,just different.Ken is the best at what he does obviously.Jim enjoys seeking out problems and fixing them thereby creating his own unique style of modeling.And I enjoy storytelling.But above all ,we are having one hell of a lot of fun! Cheers! John.

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The full range of Ken and Jim's work can be viewed over on :
World War I Modeling Page Go to Galleries.

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Here is a prime example of looking at something so long that you fail to really see it anymore.
I was thinking of permanently fastening the Jenny down to the floor when I thought that I had better check her over one last time.Well look what I found! I had also forgotten the kingpost wiring and the drag wires not to mention the braces under the tail.Needless to say Jenny is now sitting back on the workbench!

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Now I remember why I didn't add the drag wires,it was because they would interfere with the pilot group of figures and besides they would probably be one of the last things to be rigged.Same thing with the kingposts,only after the covering.I trimmed and tightened all the wires and made up the wooden tail braces that connect the tailpost to the horiz. stab.Looks like I will have her back in the hangar tomorrow.

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These are the wires I left off!Please note: the Canucks kingpost arrangement is different from what is shown here!
None of the hard steel back brace wires for the control surfaces are installed ,nor were they ever intended to be for this build.