While we're talking about models. Here's a little diorama I whipped up using some kits I got off eBay dirt cheap.
You'll have to excuse the poor photography. I'm still learning how to work my camera. I accidentally screwed up the exposure, hence the glare effect. I filmed it in my front yard on an overcast day.
A normal day of routine maintenance on a factory-fresh Ki-43 Hayabusa.
No activity goes unnoticed!
Overall look at the scene.The truck is a 1/72 Isuzu Gas Truck by Hasegawa.
The airplane is a 1/72 Ki-43 by Hasegawa.
The Japanese crew figures and bomb cart came with the truck.
The tree is a HO scale crappy plastic tree I painted with Model Master Sand Brown and SAC Bomber Green.
The shed is scratchbuilt using an awning that came with the crappy plastic tree, with Evergreen sprue rods for support and toothpicks glued together for the workbench.
The oil drum and ammo boxes came from a 1/72 Checkpoint scene by Hasegawa. The sandbag sitting on top of the drum is actually some spare sprue from a tank kit. The sprue was "filler" holding the tank's wheels together on the sprue frame. I sanded and shaped it to thin it a bit, and added the "Minicraft-Hasegawa" logo from the Ki-43's decal sheet just to give it a label.
The GI figure is from a set that came with a Revell M-16 halftrack kit I got for Christmas. Its hard to see, but he's holding binoculars and a walkie-talkie.
The runway is tile mortar, the dirt is from my front yard, the grass is modeling grass from a model train store and the tall weeds are from an old paintbrush. The woodchips were bought through eBay as "landscaping material". Its all glued onto a 1:18 model car display case. I removed the clear plastic cover for the purpose of photographing the scene. Its all safely under plastic again.
