Evening all. Quite a few years ago, I completed what was my best model to date - the 1/72 Revell Lavochkin LA5 FN. I was pretty chuffed with it and displayed it at the Hull Veterans' Support Centre Model Show. On the way back and due wholly to me being a complete biff in stacking my models very poorly on the front seat of the car, one of my other models, a rather cumbersome Churchill Crocodile diorama, fell on top of it and squashed it.
I put it away and told myself that I would one day repair it and restore it to its' former glory and I eventually got brave enough to try. Sadly, a couple of bits were beyond repair and the tail wheel had gone astray so I decided that instead I would have to get even braver and damage it deliberately some more and turn it into a crashed aircraft. I sourced a Soviet pilot from CMK Resins, a Gaz-42 truck from a company called Military Wheels (Hannants list them as Model Wheels) and some ground crew figures from Zvezda and got to work. I haven't got many pictures but Have included a couple of the original LA5 and some of the diorama to date.
The truck is a real pig with soft plastic, not very snug fitting parts, no locating pins or holes and vague instructions but I have made something of it. I can always cover any imperfections with mud and rust! The company actually do a decent range of 1/72 scale kits and I would buy more from them as it's a good test of modelling skills.