WWII didn't end in 1945...

Pictures of my last "old" diorama. This time a "What-if" or "Luftwaffe-46" scenario. It's the Focke Wulf Ta-283. The diorama is set in Spring 1946. The Normandy landings was postponed in June 1944 because of bad weather and a later attempt failed. Because of this the German army could send reinforcements to the East and stabilize the front. During 1945 there was a general lull in the fighting because of exhaustion on all sides. There was even talks of an armistice. Now in Spring 1946, the Soviets make a final attempt at ending the war and are advancing ever nearer to Berlin. The Western allies put their hopes on the Italian front and repeated bombing raids on Germany (they have decided not to use the Atom Bomb in Europe, unless absolutely necessary). The Ta-283 is to be used in combat for the first time in another attempt at stopping the Alled bombing campaign.

The aircraft never left the drawing board and we will luckily never know if it would have worked as a combat aircraft.

I have painted the panel lines too sharp. Perhaps fix this sometime... The aircraft kit used is made by Huma Modell.

Flying saucer project

I have also started on my UFO project, using the Pegasus Hobbies Alpha Centauri UFO I recently bought. The plan is to make an imaginary "Nazi UFO". The inspiration comes from the movie Iron Sky (a comedy about nazis on the moon...check out the trailers on youtube). There is also a myth (?) about germans making a flying saucer and having established a base for it on the Arctic during the war, called project Haunebu.
I have scratchbuilt part of the cockpit by using parts of an old Me-262 double seated night fighter model that was wrecked since before. The two round "engine parts" that are under the seats are made from left-over Sherman tank wheels in scale 1/35. The unpainted pilot fig is from Revell.

Latest harvest...

My latest purchases: Panther Ausf F from Dragon, an german half track ammunition carrier (for Nebelwerfer) from Roden, a Panzer IV Ausf H (bought in a shop at Berchtesgaden during my trip to the Alps) and Italian tank, artillery and AFV crews from Waterloo 1815. The Italian crews are nicely scuplted and they take ordinary poly glue really well. They will be a very nice complement to the Italian AFVs in my collection.

So, more german AFVs. Can't seem to get enough... But I have purchased one kit that stands out from my other stuff. A couple of "Alpha Centauri U.F.O.'s" made by Pegasus Hobbies. The box says they are in scale 1/32 and two alien figures are provided, but I of course have a plan to make them useful in 1/72. And one of them at least (there's two in one box) will not be used by aliens. More to come... The UFO models looks really nice and seem to be very easy to build.

My latest diorama: a homage to Orwell's 1984

This one is inspired by George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984": A protester painting forbidden words on a propaganda poster from the ruling party. The two security troopers are equipped with "old" WWII British army gear and more "recently made" grey uniforms.