Flight 19 Avenger diorama

1/72 Airfix Avenger

by Thanos Mentzelopoulos

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  Hellenic Independence Day 2008 

 

Hello everyone! This is a little diorama I built for the "Hel.Mo." Model Show 2008 at Aigio, Greece! The kit comes from Airfix and is very very basic. It was built in barely 10 minutes since there were no additions made and no superdetailing. I always wanted to build an Avenger from Flight 19 and this was my chance! I finally opted to build an Avenger on the bottom of the sea since I had no time for a full-scale build. At first I painted the model dark blue, then I applied the decals and then several overall washes with white followed in order to cover the blue paint. All those random stains of rust were made with the use of little sponges and many shades of brown and red colours. A final wash with Molak rust brought all those shades together. Needless to say that I used Humbrol and Molak enamels paints for this one since I painted it using brushes. In order to represent the rust on the plane I used baking soda as you can see in the photos. After the soda had dried I washed it with the same rust wash but much more thinned this time.

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The diorama base was made of wood. The bottom of the sea is mainly plaster, sand from the beach and pebbles from the garden.  The seaweeds were dried mint leaves from the supermarket! I can surely tell you that even now that the diorama is in its glass case, it still smells nice!!!

Since time was running out for our Model Show I had to improvise for the colour of the bottom of the sea. Blue-coloured plexiglass would take some time to order and have it in my hands in time, so I made the case from common 3mm glass covered in blue transparencies!!! I was quite satisfied with the final outcome! I hope you are too!!!

You can also visit our website www.helmo.gr and check the topic for more more photos, comments and feedback (in Greek) here: http://www.helmo.gr/forum/index.php?topic=614.0

Thank you!!!

Thanos

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Photos and text © by Thanos Mentzelopoulos