09-01-2011, 10:34 PM
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:Both cool and depressing! Post WWII Kingman (now Davis Montham, i think), AFB.
One interesting thing that the thread brought to mind after seeing the models of "scrapped" B24 Liberators...
B24 Liberators were the most numerously produced American Aircraft (and perhaps in world wide?) of WWII. Now, there are only a handful around, with two flying that I know of (Diamond Lil and Witchcraft/All American).
Well, you can think of it as not preserving enough history, or you can think of it as beating swords into ploughshares when they are no longer needed as swords. The first is a depressing though, the second a cheering thought - that the war was over, and resources was being reclaimed for civilian use.
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:I had started out modeling airplanes before i came to trains, and for a while, I've tried to find HO aircraft, but there hasn't been much in the way that has grabbed my attention.
I think the key decision he made was doing this in N scale - 1:160 scale trains behind 1:144 scale planes in the foreground. Even fairly large planes are at a manageable size in 1:144 scale. In H0 scale, planes quickly get too big for a small or medium sized layout.
Smile,
Stein