Can anyone help me get some ideas on a South Pacific airplane Diorama? The planes are in 1/48, and don't mind the plane, I probably have it anyway.

Let me know, Thanks!

-Chip

How about a plane dropping a torpedo into the water?

Yeah, Penny, Good idea. Fiddled with tat i the past. Still don't know how to prop plane above water though. Could you help me out? It would make good dio!

Excellan Idea

-Chip

You could use a piece of acrylic rod to set the plane on. Then have a smaller piece to prop the end of the torpedo onto, so it looks like its half in the water....Hope this gives you a good idea

That sounds suspiciously like an entry in this years Old Dominion Open, Penny. #:-)

:-) Well, that one also had a big splash of water. I guess the rod was hidden in it.

It was a good dio too.

i remember a dio with 1/48 VP figures maintaining a P-47 under a few palm trees

How about tree level dog fight between a Zero and a Buffalo? call it defender of the Corrigador? or something.

How bout a plane on the dirt runway ready for takoff on some Island ( Midway or one Marshalls, Iwo ). This could show some of the Maintaince Tents and some of the .50 cal implacements for the defence of the island from Air raids. Maybe if room enough have one waiting on the taxiway for takeoff as well.
Could call it "Meeting the threat"??

When old japanese runways were taken y the americans, they were quickly put back to use, so here is one :
have a marine's corsair taxying on a sand or dirt taxi while a damaged zero or Ki 43 is rusting in the high grass nearby !

I've always wanted to build a corsair dio with the plane in the maintenance area and the plane in different stages of disarray from maintenance on the engine, guns, gear, etc.

Well, you could force yourself to watch Black Sheep Sqaudron or Baa Baa Black Sheep or whatever they call that show on cable. Ignore the acting and the disco era haircuts on the pilots and look for some ideas there.

While it's not island based and if you're really adventurous, you could try for the famous shot of the Hellcat crash landing and breaking in two on the carrier deck. The scene is copped in Midway at the end of the action as Charlton Heston crashes his dive bomber back home. (One of those magical transformer planes!)

Saw a dio once on the internet, a seaplane half in the water and half on a beack, the pane had some battledamage. That would be interesting.

Penny!!

I'm surprised that a fellow P-38 lover wouldn't say there needs to be be a P-38 in that dio. Heck the South Pacific theatre was the only theatre they worked well in!! Have a P-38 going after a Zero or something!! I've got a Hasegawa P-38 waiting for me to do something with it. It'll be a while before I finish it though...

This has been done, but I think it was pretty neat....
At my local hobby shop, there is a diorama of a zero circling a corsair that was just shot down and all you can see of the corsair is the tail of the plane and the pilot bobbing in the water.. It looks good anyways..

One thing I've seen in old new reels are F4's dropping incidiaries on hills of destroyed jungle. The F4 is flying in low (I mean seriously low too) and the bombs are tumpling off and explosing if a firery blaze.

Hard elements are the flying and the burning. You could use a back ground hill as a base support and run an angled (90 degrees) rod from the hill up and over to the backside wing. Another method would be to provide a backdrop image, in essence forcing a view to look at it from only three sides. Then having a fairly short horizontal rod holding the wing tip
The tumbling bombs would be a challenge, you could have one almost making imact with short wire. The other one could be hanging from a tree limb that is still in tact.

Another thing I always found interesting was P40's a Pearl Harbor. I don't think of P40's in OD as being in the Pacific. The possibilities are endless there. You could do a Pre PH scene of a pleasant tarmac. You could do any number of scenes on Dec. 7th too. One getting hit, one having been hit, pilots scurring around trying to get to thier birds, one trying to taxi to a runway.

Just some thoughts.

How bout you show some crashed zero on a dirt runway with a pilot and some crew checking it out you could put a corsair or a wildcat in the backround too you could call it one down another couple hundred thousand to go