Finished Photos of Monogram 1/48 B-17G Diorama "The Final Landing"

[Phillip1]

Fellow Modelers,

Below are photos of my 1/48 scale B-17G diorama titled “The Final Landing”. It was built in 2011.
The setting shows a war-weary B-17 coming back to its English airfield after another dangerous mission over Germany in 1944. The aircraft made a successful landing and was taxiing to its assigned parking location when failure of the right main landing gear caused it to swerve off the runway into the grass.

I went to great lengths to try and duplicate the famous diorama that Master Modeler Sheperd Paine built for Monogram Models in 1975, which was featured in a four-page color brochure included with their B-17G kit. Hand painting the artwork on the nose of the aircraft was one of the features I was NOT able to reproduce. Several aftermarket resin and photo-etch details sets were used on the B-17G. About 75% of the total project time was spent building and painting the airplane, as it was heavily modified. The base is 3/4” thick plywood. The ground-work is Sculptamold, mixed with water and food coloring. The concrete runway is sand sprinkled over white glue. Only a couple of the kit’s crew members had to be modified to match the original diorama. The entire project took me six months to build. I am still blown away by the fact that Paine built his diorama in about two weeks! The last few photos were taken while the build was “in-progress”. I hope you enjoy the photos.

Phillip1

[aur0ra145]

This is excellent!

[cor]

Fabulous work. I appreciate all the attention to detail required in all areas of this build.

[Twokidsnosleep]

An absolutely awesome job
Wow

[Stokesy44]

Beautiful work. Superb detail and damage effects.

A worthy homage to the original version.

[WordenB]

Very impressive work!

[Tomcat64]

That really is a superb piece of work - really well done

[Garion77]

this is masterwork !!!!! You've achieve a really realistic look on the olive drab (something I need to learn !) and the figures are awesome. Congrats !

[RangerNeil]

Excellent job. The detail is outstanding.

[Phillip1]

aur0ra145/cor/Twokidsnosleep/Stokesy44/WordenB/Tomcat64/Garion77/RangerNeil-Thanks very much for the compliments. They are appreciated.

Phillip1

[digger303]

Awesome b-17 with some great battle damage....terrific stuff.

[Carles]

Fantastic diorama !!
I really like all details on it and all care of small details..
The damages on the airplane sections too !!

Congrats for this work mate !

Cheers !
Carles.

[psmithmags]

Superb work. Attention to detail is great.You should be ecstatic with this diorama/art piece

[Phillip1]

digger303/Carles/psmithmags-Thanks very much for the kind words.

Phillip1