MILITARY DIORAMAS by Paul Asaban

Photo Album 22 - Black Widow

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Photo Album 22 - Black Widow
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Photo Album 24 - Somewhere in Saudi (A-10)
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Photo Album 27 - The Mother of all Battles
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Photo Album 29 - My kids are in on the action - Christian's Dioramas
Photo Album 30 - My kids are in on the action - Nicole's Dinosaurs
Photo Album 31 - Coming Soon - Operation Market Garden
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Photo Album 33 - Antique Ships Restoration Project
Photo Album 34 - Restoration Project II
Photo Album 35 - Restoration Project III
Photo Album 36 - Restoration Project IV
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WORLD WAR II DIORAMAS
"Black Widow"
Northrop P-61
 

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Above: One of my earliest works, circa 1978. The P-61 is a Monogram kit, whereas the truck and tanker trailer are among my first scratchbuilt items. The tree trunks are bent sprue - the leaves are cut out notebook paper painted green, and I wrapped them around bent up sections of metal guitar strings. The Northrop P-61 was the first purpose built American night fighter and entered service late in WWII - too late to significantly accelerate the already determined outcome of Allied victory. Nevertheless, the aircraft did have a successful, albeit short, career. It was one of the most technologically advanced aircraft to see combat in WWII.

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Above: A close up of the P-61 Black Widow. A ground crewman, painting the red stripe on the aircraft, has dumped his red paint and exclaims his frustration, attracting the attention of his fellow servicemen. The P-61's punch is concentrated in the remotely controlled rotating turret atop the fuselage (.50 cal) and the 20mm cannons in the ventral fuselage. P-61's were painted gloss black in the Pacific, whereas European Black Widows were often painted the standard USAAF olive drab.

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Above: The homemade truck and trailer. The truck is a converted "10 cent" toy metal truck, and the trailer is a plastic prescription bottle glued to a homemade chassis. The tarp cover on the truck is a cut out from an old T-shirt. The gun on the truck is from an old busted up B-24 kit. A ground crewman unloads supplies from the truck. The pump engine at the front of the trailer is really a tractor engine from a ground crew set.

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