Calling Box Art Diorama Builders!!!

[mattbacon]

Hi, all... Mat Irvine's been in touch, to say he's writing a book (a Haynes Manual) on building dioramas, and would like to include some of the CBK SIG Box Art dioramas among the illustrations. Mat says he has plenty of photos he took at Telford, but would like to credit them and maybe ask some questions about them. I can remember some, but it would really help if people who'd built them could add them below and I'll transfer to a master list. If you're happy to have your work included, can you also give your real name as well as Forum name, for potential photo credits... I'll start:

1. Airfix Mirage and Mig-15 "Dogfight Double" (Matt Bacon)
2. Revell (UK) B-26 Marauder "Flak Bait" over the D-Day beaches (Matt Bacon)
3. Airfix BN Islander (Paul Bradley)
4. Airfix Bristol Blenheim (Paul Bradley)

Now, over to you lot. If you know anyone who is no longer of this parish, but know what they did and their real names, please add as well...

best,
M.

[PaulBradley]

How cool! These were fun projects, and I'm glad someone else enjoyed them!

Did you point him to the Group Build threads here at UAMF?

3. Airfix BN Islander (Paul Bradley)
4. Airfix Bristol Blenheim (Paul Bradley)

[beany]

Hi Matt,
my contributions were:-

Airfix 1/144 SR.N4 Hovercraft (Alan Bean)
Airfix 1/72 Avro Lancaster 'G' for George (Alan Bean)
Airfix 1/24 Junkers Ju.87 Stuka (Alan Bean)
Airfix 1/144 Saturn V Apollo (Alan Bean)

Cheers
Al

[JamesPerrin]

The forums are still there, I've scraped what I could find.

Airfix 1/72 SH-3D '66' SeaKing - Matt Thomas
Airfix 1/72 Junker 88 - Tom Watts
Airfix 1/72 Lockheed Hudson - Tom Watts
Airfix 1/72 Vertol Sea Knight - Tim Mansfield
Airfix 1/72 Fairey Firefly - James Perrin
Airfix 1/72 Grumman J2F-6 Duck - James Perrin
Airfix 1/72 Dinah - James Perrin
Airfix 1/72 Mosquito/Me262 Dogfight double - Martin Rosa
Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hunter - Bruce Grayson
Airfix 1/32 Dennis Fire Engine - Alan Ashdown
Airfix 1/600 HMS Fearless - Alan Thompson
Airfix 1/144 HP 42 - Bruce Leyland-Jones /Matt Bacon

Matchbox 1/72 Hawker Fury(s) - Ollie Holmes
Matchbox 1/72 Walrus - Barry Webb
Matchbox 1/76 M16 Halftrack - John Ratzenberger

[JamesPerrin]

It'd be awesome if any of our builds make it to a Haynes manual - something that everyone involved in the Box Art Displays should be proud of.

[JohnRatzenberger]

Cool !

Another source of innovative dioramas might be our Compact Disc/Diorama GB from 2016: https://uamf.org.uk/viewforum.php?f=336;.

[beany]

A little bit of video I took of the Box Art Display at Farnborough Modelfest.

https://youtu.be/TGIdEu6kYYU;

Cheers
Al.