Short Sunderland 1942

[louis Carabott]

This is a 1/72 scale diorama which I built quite a while ago ,1995 to be exact. It relates to a real  incident in WWII....This RCAF Sunderland was on its way from Alexandria 

It had to land in Malta's Se Base in Kalafrna for an emergency engine change. An Axis airborne attack was imminent to the Island ...Hence a quick engine change 

had to be performed half way along the slipway for a quick getaway . It is an Airfix kit which was extensively detailed . The Model is now housed at The Malta 

Aircraft Museum   

[TonyK]

Fantastic diorama and interesting story.

[Mike 1017]

Another Masterpiece

Mike

[Jim B]

Fabulous job!

[Ace-Garageguy]

Definitely positively beautiful, and a fascinating story.  

Also fascinating is your depiction of how she was built to be worked on, with the swing-out leading-edge supports for the under-engine platforms, and I assume built-in wing hard-points for the engine sling.

Pretty thrilling situation to be doing a big radial engine change in, most definitely.

Edited April 30, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[michelle]

Awesome work and very cool that it ended up in a museum 

[PappyD340]

Simply awesome!!

[shoopdog]

Quite stunning!

[happy grumpy]

A beautiful depiction of a piece of history. Having built aircraft models for a long time I can appreciate the work you did on this historic plane. excellent job.

[Hi-Po]

Outstanding workmanship!  Very impressive diorama.

[espo]

Amazing details. Takes a long time to study all that is going on in this build, time well spent.  

[stavanzer]

Wow!

I am stunned.

[Curvette1]

What a fantastic piece of art, no wonder it’s in a museum!