Anyone Collect 1:72 Die Cast Airplanes

[Boba Debt]

I do and I have a large display of them in our arcade

Here is a pic of when I first started working out the display concept a couple years ago

 

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These are the most recent pictures of a Carrier Deck Shelf I have been work on (and off depending on my work schedule) for about a year and a half

 

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This is the Shunk Works Shelf

 

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And this is a Vietnam era revetment that is in it's early stages of development

 

[Analyzer]

Some awesome stuff!

I do not collect die-cast, but I have been recently building a lot of 1/72 stuff, mostly carrier based high vis Navy scheme of the 70s at this point

I love your carrier deck display and it looks like you have the Italeri 1/72 carrier deck section with the blast barrier

I was kind of curious where that fit in. Looks like it is the front port side catapult

at any rate, here is where I am at. I still have a high vis A-6 Intruder, EA-6B Prowler, RA-5 Vigilante to round out the carrier jets and a proper slats and flaps down take off ready low vis F-14 to finish. .
I have an F-16 and A-10 in primer as well
I also want to pick up the Hawkeye and a Sea King as well as some more contemporary low vis version of the A-& and Phantom

 

[Boba Debt]

Some awesome stuff!

I could say the same thing about your collection of models

I envy people that can paint the way you have and I normally hire builders to finish my space faring models



My carrier deck is a section of the Ronald Reagan and I that spans spots 3-6

It's too scale but I took artistic license with the lines and details so that it worked with the aircraft I planned to display

I did use the Blast Barrier from the Italeri 1/72 carrier deck section but that is the only part I used

There was no way to blend the plastic deck surface of that model with the printed graphic I used for the rest so I just extracted the BB and worked it in to my graphic




It's kind of like a "static display" set up for a PR day in a port that the ships don't normally stop at

When I was on the Kearserge’s maiden voyage they did this a couple times for foreign dignitaries and they even had aircraft on display that were not part of the embarked squadron

 

[David3]

Nice collection!
I've been eyeing this diecast set of the B-17 and the Me-109 by Corgi
if you're unfamiliar with the story of these two google Stigler and Brown A Higher Call

 

[Boba Debt]

Nice collection!
I've been eyeing this diecast set of the B-17 and the Me-109 by Corgi
if you're unfamiliar with the story of these two google Stigler and Brown A Higher Call

Nice Planes, get them before there gone because they go up in value fast


I have a couple Corgi and they are really nice for the price

 

[David3]

btw- is that an Atlas launch platform under the Raptor?

 

[Analyzer]

It's kind of like a "static display" set up for a PR day in a port that the ships don't normally stop at

When I was on the Kearserge’s maiden voyage they did this a couple times for foreign dignitaries and they even had aircraft on display that were not part of the embarked squadron

I love that kind of stuff

 

[Analyzer]

Nice collection!
I've been eyeing this diecast set of the B-17 and the Me-109 by Corgi
if you're unfamiliar with the story of these two google Stigler and Brown A Higher Call
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Wow those look amazing for diecast/pre-painted

 

[Boba Debt]

btw- is that an Atlas launch platform under the Raptor?

Sort of, I bashed 5 Atlantis model kits to scratch build the left side details of the carrier

When I was done I had a ton of parts left over so I thought it would be neat to just invent something for the Skunkworks shelf

Some poeple like it and others think it's stupid because it' not realistic

 

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Wow those look amazing for diecast/pre-painted

The process is amazing and it requires so many machines

There is a video that shows a worker placing a prop on the stamping machine and it puts 5 different details on the prop in about 5 seconds with the works changing it's positiona couple times

It pretty amazing but I could find it

 

[Analyzer]

Sort of, I bashed 5 Atlantis model kits to scratch build the left side details of the carrier

When I was done I had a ton of parts left over so I thought it would be neat to just invent something for the Skunkworks shelf

Some poeple like it and others think it's stupid because it' not realistic

I think it looks cool

 

[Boba Debt]

Thanks, I finally had some time to work on this display and while I was doing that I decided to "assembly" 2 of my box models for the sci-fi sction of this display

I just finished filling the Star Fighter with plaster and it's on the wall and I'm currently building the Star Fury

Now I just need to find good finishers to get them painted