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[MLH13]

Agree with everyone else, what a terrific scene you are setting !

You certainly have an eye for detail and an awful lot of patience, oh and steady hands !:salute:::salute:::salute::

Fantastic work, thanks for posting.
Benjamin

Brilliant I thoroughly enjoyed this post.

Just spectacular! :salute::

Thank you, Gentlemen! Your feedback means a lot to me.......I'll be working on setting up the diorama and posting pics this week.

Mark

 

[MLH13]

The Last Flight
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Monday 26 August 1940​

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At their base at St Trond in Belgium, pilot Feldwebel Willi Effmert and Observer Unteroffizier Hermann Ritzel confirm their flight plan, while wireless operator Unteroffizier Helmut Reinhardt and Bomb aimer Gefreiter Heinz Huhn prepare for their last flight.


The following information was written by Andrew Simpson with the RAF Museum.


DORNIER Do 17Z Werke nr. 1160. Built as a Do 17Z-2, with two supercharged Bramo ‘Fafnir’ 323P-1 nine-cylinder radial engines; the ultimate, and most numerous, model of the Do 17 produced.Allotted to 7/KG3 (7 Staffel (Squadron), III Gruppe of KG.3 with fuselage codes 5K+AR. Based at St Trond in Belgium.

Mon. 26 August 40

Part of a formation despatched to bomb Debden and Hornchurch airfields. Seven aircraft of the Staffel started to bomb an aerodrome. Accounts of its loss vary from source to source; The original PoW Interrogation Report states that before reaching the target, when flying above clouds this aircraft seemingly became separated from the rest of the formation and lost its bearings. It was attacked by fighters, probably one of the recently-arrived RAF Hornchurch, Essex-based Boulton Paul Defiants of No.264 Squadron RAF led by Flt Lt Banham (with their forward base at RAF Manston, Kent) which hit both engines and the cockpit as one of at least one – or up to six, as again published accounts vary – Dorniers brought down by the Defiants, who lost three of their number to defending Bf109s.

At around 13.40 hours the aircraft force-landed on Goodwin Sands off the eastern Kentish coast at low tide. Of the four crew, two (Wounded Pilot Feldwebel Willi Effmert, and Observer Unteroffizier Hermann Ritzel) became Prisoners-of-War in Canada and two (27-year old Wireless Operator Unteroffizier Helmut Reinhardt and 21-year old Bomb aimer Gefreiter Heinz Huhn) were killed, their bodies being recovered later and buried in Holland and the UK (Cannock Chase German cemetery) respectively.

[url]https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Dornier/Aircraft_History.pdf[/URL]

On June 11, 2013, this only surviving Do 17z was successfully lifted from the seabed and driven more than two hundred miles on flatbed trucks to the Michael Beetham Conservation Center at Cosford.

[url]https://gizmodo.com/how-historians-recovered-the-only-surviving-nazi-flyin-1577110261

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The Do17z model is from Tom Gunn and the refuleing carts are from King & Country.

Photographing this diorama was a bit of a challenge due to its size, but I am happy with the results.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Mark,

I love the finished product! :salute:: Great scene!^&cool^&cool

 

[OzDigger]

Mark, that's an awesome hanger and diorama :salute::

 

[MLH13]

Mark,

I love the finished product! :salute:: Great scene!^&cool^&cool

Thank you, Louis! Now I need to find a place to put it. ^&grin

Mark

 

[MLH13]

Mark, that's an awesome hanger and diorama :salute::

Thank you, Matt! Much appreciated. :salute::

Mark

 

[Terp152]

Just now seeing this thread. The hangar is stunning.

 

[MLH13]

Just now seeing this thread. The hangar is stunning.

Thank you. I am pleased with the finished product, but during the building process, I wasn't sure how everything would be assembled. Some trial and error but I eventually figured it out.

Mark