This is a good diorama, and demonstrates exceptional modelling skills, but I am afraid it fails for me as so many dioramas do on the story it tells. So many times This failiure is in the planning stage, to put it quite simply when you plan a diorama you should look at the logic of the scene. I realise as someone who has many years experience working on flight lines I have an advantage on this, but most of these things are common sense.
For example on this diorama Consider the following points:
Still doing maintenance /refuelling tasks when the pilot arrives?
Believe me a RAF Aircraft Then and now, would be signed up as Servicable and ready to fly long before the "driver" appeared.
Doing maintenance on an armed aircraft?
When a Military aircraft is declared servicable and fully fuelled, Then and only then is it armed. Maintenance is forbidden on armed aircraft. (I can assure you that this was true as far back as in WW1, where no doubt sombody found out the hard way).
A tilly loaded with jerricans of fuel parked in front of an armed aircraft?
I think not! In real life somebody might find himself on a fizzer and spending some time in a warm guardroom cell if he did this.
When the pilot arrives the trolley Acc WILL be connected to the aircraft, and the trolley placed in such a way that the aircraft would have no chance of striking it when taxying out .(especially at dusk!).
I apologise in advance to the maker and imply no personal slight. I mean this as constructive criticism, I am just using this diorama as a convenient example.
But I honestly think i will go mad if I see yet another Diorama with jet aircraft loaded with live missiles in a hangar scenario!
Exasperated Selwyn!
Senior Editor
