"Airfields in North Africa - Plane Camo" Topic
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| Firefly VC | 10 Feb 2012 10:06 a.m. PST |
I am currently building terrain for Narth Africa. I have a squadron of LRDG/SAS and want to build terrain for airfield raids. I do not want to buy a bunch of planens. I had wanted to build hangars or revetments or camo netting covering roughly aiplane-shaped areas. Does anyone know a source that shows what Italian/German airfields looked like in North Africa? I ahave a couple of examples, but none show any type of 'shortage' to planes… Just out in the open. If I don't get historical examples, I'll make soemthing up, but it would be better if I could find some. |
| thejoker | 10 Feb 2012 5:31 p.m. PST |
Very difficult. Most airfields were temporary affairs and relied on canvas covers for planes, tents for men etc and some camo netting.
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| number4 | 10 Feb 2012 8:06 p.m. PST |
Your also gonna have a few air raid trenches and AA positions but that's about it |
| Khusrau | 11 Feb 2012 6:08 a.m. PST |
Nice pictures.. thanks for that. Gives a good impression of just how primitive things were compared to the minimum that you would need nowadays. Those planes would bump across strips that would wreck a modern jet. |
| WarpSpeed | 11 Feb 2012 9:34 a.m. PST |
Yep the difference between a flugplatz and a flughaven,infrastructure! |
| Lion in the Stars | 11 Feb 2012 6:21 p.m. PST |
Well, you can get 1/100 fighters pretty cheap from some of the plastic kit makers. I mean the quick-build, prepaints. Put 3-4 planes out there (should only cost you ~$15 or so) and a couple 'fuel dump' objectives to shoot up and you should be golden. |
| Firefly VC | 12 Feb 2012 12:37 p.m. PST |
For 'thejoker', thanks for the pics. I have found two of these in the past. All other suggestions are appreciated. I guess I have going to build from 'reasonable imagination'. I have two plactic 109s, but as I am doing this in 28mm scale (1/48 scaleplanes) I don't want to spend too much on these things. I have crates and barrels to generate dumps. I am considering using paper models, then camo netting or tarping them. BTW, sorry for my typos… I didn't realize I had left so many! |
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