Historical View Installations

I wanted to put up some process shots from my recent viewing installation builds I completed back in December. These were fun little projects inspired by something I saw on Rios Tam's blog - a cool little display area he built for one of the gashapon submarine toys he had. I thought it was a fun way to display items like this, so I thought I'd give it a go myself.

I just used styrene - my go to material of choice for these things - and designed up some display areas for some of the 1/144 scale items I had purchased.

First up was an area for a Japanese Zero I purchased.

I kept things super simple.

A touch of paint and some signs later and things were looking pretty OK. I was going to weather up the plane because it was looking really new, but then I saw the image below and thought that it might be ok if it were a newer plane.

 

I'm SURE this says something unrelated to a Japanese airplane.....  :)

I used the same process on the submarine viewing area. I had two, so I built it large enough to fit both.

  
I wanted things to have some sweeping curves to make it look like the ocean a bit. A little design fun. I went with the blue again here. The two displays are located close to each other and I like the splash of color they add to the layout.

 

This was a fun little project. It allowed me to include these cool items on the layout without having to do more water scenes or build an airport! hehehe   It's a fun little nugget.