Bored Tonight...Post a Diorama, LOL (2 Viewers)

[WesternOutlaw]

Excellent! Great afternoon shot. The terrain is perfect.

 

[mestell]

I always liked the looks of the LRDG vehicles. A great looking photo

Mike

 

[panda1gen]

Excellent! Great afternoon shot. The terrain is perfect.

Thanks Rob, the terrain is Louis' K&C bases blended into one, made by Gordon. The summer light in Louis' back yard makes it.

 

[panda1gen]

I always liked the looks of the LRDG vehicles. A great looking photo

Mike

Thanks Mike, the LRDG are some of my favourites too.

 

[GI_Jigsaw]

Here's a few action shots:

These set ups are outstanding!

 

[GI_Jigsaw]

Indirect fire! Fire for effect, Red Legs.

 

[panda1gen]

Somewhere in the Pacific .....

 

[paxtoysoldier]

What an awesome warbird. Grandpa remembered seeing them blast Suribachi with rockets and bombs just to add to the incredible carnage from ships like his destroyer and, most deafeningly, the Battleship USS Texas. Must've been quite the sight. Not that he enjoyed it. He was done with the military when the war ended.
Keep up the great pics & stories.
Paddy

 

[panda1gen]

Great story and my respects to your grandpa. Those guys in that generation had it so tough. My grandpa 'enjoyed' the Russian convoys. Hope we don't repeat soon.

Thanks for your supportive comments. I guess planes like this would deliver those rockets ....

 

[panda1gen]

 

[Louis Badolato]

What an awesome warbird. Grandpa remembered seeing them blast Suribachi with rockets and bombs just to add to the incredible carnage from ships like his destroyer and, most deafeningly, the Battleship USS Texas. Must've been quite the sight. Not that he enjoyed it. He was done with the military when the war ended.
Keep up the great pics & stories.
Paddy

When we did the photoshoot for the volume on K&C Warbirds, between my collection, the Late Larry Lo's magnificent collection, the late Chuck Karen's collection and I believe Brad Lewin and Harvey Hammer's collections, Kevin photographed more than 100 of these wonderful warbirds. I still have a 12 foot by 6 foot RAF Airfield diorama in the Aerodrome Room of my collection, a room in which I display approximately 70 K&C Warbirds and another 70 of so Heco Tinplate Models aircraft (the planes suspended in the air are Heco Tinplate Models, the stick of descending paratroopers are K&C). All of the vehicles and buildings are K&C (the control tower in the center of the first photo was custom made for me by Gordon Neilson when K&C launched its custom diorama production back in 1999) and Heco as well.

 

[Louis Badolato]

I am also fortunate enough to have a few smaller airfield dioramas on which I display K&C and Heco aircraft:

 

[Louis Badolato]

When we did the photoshoot for the volume on K&C Warbirds, between my collection, the Late Larry Lo's magnificent collection, the late Chuck Karen's collection and I believe Brad Lewin and Harvey Hammer's collections, Kevin photographed more than 100 of these wonderful warbirds. I still have a 12 foot by 6 foot RAF Airfield diorama in the Aerodrome Room of my collection, a room in which I display approximately 70 K&C Warbirds and another 70 of so Heco Tinplate Models aircraft (the planes suspended in the air are Heco Tinplate Models, the stick of descending paratroopers are K&C). All of the vehicles and buildings are K&C (the control tower in the center of the first photo was custom made for me by Gordon Neilson when K&C launched its custom diorama production back in 1999) and Heco as well.

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Here are a few more shots of some of the big aircraft on the K&C portion of my RAF Airfield, a Bristol Blenheim, a Douglas A20 Boston, a B17 and a Horsa Glider:

 

[paxtoysoldier]

70 Heco, as many K&C and dioramas by Gordon as well... An Aerodrome room! Fabulous collections. Like a book on warbirds. I enjoyed thoroughly. So did Dad. Well done Louis! If you have more pics from the collections you photographed they'd be great to see.
Paddy

 

[GI_Jigsaw]

Somali militia. New KnC figures from the Black Hawk Down line.

 

[GI_Jigsaw]

When we did the photoshoot for the volume on K&C Warbirds, between my collection, the Late Larry Lo's magnificent collection, the late Chuck Karen's collection and I believe Brad Lewin and Harvey Hammer's collections, Kevin photographed more than 100 of these wonderful warbirds. I still have a 12 foot by 6 foot RAF Airfield diorama in the Aerodrome Room of my collection, a room in which I display approximately 70 K&C Warbirds and another 70 of so Heco Tinplate Models aircraft (the planes suspended in the air are Heco Tinplate Models, the stick of descending paratroopers are K&C). All of the vehicles and buildings are K&C (the control tower in the center of the first photo was custom made for me by Gordon Neilson when K&C launched its custom diorama production back in 1999) and Heco as well.

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Wow! Just...wow!

 

[panda1gen]

Louis also has some superb float-planes ....

 

[WesternOutlaw]

Awesome shot!

 

[Louis Badolato]

70 Heco, as many K&C and dioramas by Gordon as well... An Aerodrome room! Fabulous collections. Like a book on warbirds. I enjoyed thoroughly. So did Dad. Well done Louis! If you have more pics from the collections you photographed they'd be great to see.
Paddy

Kevin (Panda1gen) posts photos from the photoshoot for the book all the time. As he is the photographer, I leave that to him. But I will continue to post photos from my collection taken by my son and I.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Louis also has some superb float-planes ....

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Just a few ...