Aircraft collection

Christian Meyerhoff
Some pics of my finished aircraft models 🙂

Nils Steyaert
terrific Luft'46 collection 🙂

George Bacon
It's a wonderful collection, and nicely displayed! Thanks for sharing 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff
Many thanks George and a happy new year!

Mathias Carl
Oh, a Focke-Angelis "Drache"?
I´ve never seen a built one before.
Maybe you can bring it to next Stammtisch? 🙂

Dave Flitton
Nice collection!! Thanks for sharing

Martien Lourens
A beautiful collection. I was able to watch them at your home. In reality it is a big show.

Kerry COX
And do you have a system that keeps the whole thing 'Dust Free' ? ;-/

Christian Ristits
Tolle Sammlung, da sind einige Schätze dabei! LG Christian

Marcel Klemmer
Wirklich tolle Sammlung 🙂

Stephan Ryll
very nice collection 👍

Bill Davis
That is one awesome collection! I think you are like me in that a lot of your models are German, except most of mine are still in their boxes.

Christian Meyerhoff
Thank You all for Your kind words!

Holger Kranich
The Drache Looks awesome!

Choppa Nutta
very cool collection Christian ! 👍 🙂
could you be tempted to make each shelf a diorama base with sky backdrops etc. ? 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff
Thank You!
@ Choppa: Nice Idea mate, never thought about it before!
@ Holger: Good old Huma...

Choppa Nutta
it's an idea I've been wanting to do some of my book shelves with the occasional shelf setup as a model diorama 🙂

I was thinking inside a hanger with lights, or a workshop, with the hanger doors half open and sky back drop ...

or various fields and runways, carrier deck sections as large as the shelf....

or maybe a in flight shelf with a sky back drop and an ariel photo of the ground with a few clouds floating low over the ground. Use rods out of the back of the shelving unit so nothing is sticking upwards out of the ground, to help the illusion of flying along, maybe even dress up the support rods as smoke trails 🙂

Kelly Wellington
I like, Choppa.

I am currently producing on a "Coastal Command and their Adversaries - Battle of the Atlantic" which tends to be British heavy, but well represented with German adversaries (I'm just finishing up the BV-138 Seedraken and will start the He-111 torpedo bomber next). I've also been replicating US Navy craft involved, which includes a distinction between land-based and carrier-based. I have been putting box art up behind the finished craft to escape the bland wood. I'd guess I have several options...endless vistas of blue over wine-dark seas, land airbase, carrier deck, catapult launch, and seaplane harbour. I still toy with the idea of obtaining a 1/72 (my preferred scale) U-Boat kit to build and display the associated aircraft around it...

Choppa Nutta
Sounds interesting Kelly 🙂
hows this for an idea 🙂

take two shelves one above the other, on the top one the shelf is an ocean surface, if you use clear water effects on clear perspex shelf tinted the right blue but still transparentish, cut the correct holes for the boats to sit in so we can see the hull from underneath, using tiny wisps of cotton to get that bubbles from the propellers etc. maybe use a dramatic photo of a thundery sky scape with the sun cracking through with light beams etc. printed at correct size etc,

and then..

on the bottom shelf we have a sea bed with the back drop as an inky blue and have the sun beams breaking through the surface and use rods out of the back wall to make the U-Boat look like it's floating under the waves, you could even put a 1/144 behind and below in a forced perspective under water diorama.

Do the backdrop as one big picture so that the sun beams line up correctly and curve the back drop around the to avoid awkward vertical lines in the backdrop, we want an uninterrupted horizon after all 🙂

If you want some help with photoshopping a back drop just holler ! 🙂

Kelly Wellington
Hmmm...1/72 U-Boat (Revell has the VII C and the IX C) is pricey, and I don't have it. I do have several kits remaining (my count is roughly 35 separate craft remain) and most of them are from the early craft...biplanes. Plus, the submarine would be the only non-aviation model represented in that it would be emblematic of the reason for the purposing of all the aircraft. I think I'll go for dioramic blue gray skies...and since I tend to build with wheels down, tarmac or carrier deck seems more likely. Right now, at this moment, I am aware that what I need is a decent plain background for photos...like a five foot roll of white butcher paper.

Kelly Wellington
Oh...and the 35 remaining does not include RN aircraft...that's always an option for expansion in a 'Battle of the Atlantic' theme.

Choppa Nutta
As cool as a double layered ocean diorama might be it would be quite a lot of work 🙂

If you got the relevant boats and subs you could some ship wrecks on the sea bed and maybe have a boat sinking bow first with most of it under water but with the stern sticking out above the surface.
The Germans also had that mini sub that Revell do quite cheaply for 1/72 🙂

Anyhow all ideas for the gravy pot 😄

Kelly Wellington
I like the bi-level oceanic diorama idea. I'm just not likely to do it.

Kelly Wellington
I like the idea of a diorama of dropped and exploding underwater ordinance being air-delivered upon a fleeing U-Boat. Pick your aircraft.

Kerry COX
All fantastic ideas guys, and Christian would be more than capable of making a masterpiece of any one of them. 👍