Thanks for the nice comments, chaps.
Over the last few weeks I've been working on a few bits and pieces for the airfield and today they all came together and were completed and/or fitted in place.
Firstly we've now got a shed as C-flight office, and a nissen hut as aircrew accomodation, or perhaps the officers' mess. I'm not sure if they'd have had a flagpole but I've made one anyway.
The nissen hut is a resin casting but the shed is scratched from plain plasticard with the planks done using an OLFA cutter, which actually takes a sliver of plastic out instead of merely scoring it. The flag is a computer printout and the pole is plastic rod.
We've also got anti-aircraft measures in the form of a Lewis gun, surrounded by sandbags. There is a gap at the back, in case you were wondering how anyone got in there to man the gun.
The Lewis is a kit spare part and the sand bags are made of milliput. I suspect the Lewis should really be of the infantry pattern with a butt but it's all I had.
In the corner I've added a farm building, outside which an infantry squad parade before returning to the trenches. To fit in with the period of the majority of my aeroplanes (1917/18) I guess these chaps should have Brodie helmets and not soft caps but you can't have everything absolutely right...
The building was scratched using a shell of plain plasticard and embossed plasticard outer. The soldiers are WD models resin casts.
Pilot and observer of this "Harry Tate" have just returned from Hunland, where they were spotting for the artillery...
The R.E.8 is one of my earliest models that I've repainted and rigged.
That damned staff officer is back!
He wasn't on the staff but he is now I've added some red to his hat and his collar patches.
And this is the overall scene.
You'll notice that in all the previous photos I've roughly added in the sky. This is due to the wrinkles in the background and because photographing indoors shows them up too much. It was alright in the summer when I could photograph it outdoors and in good light but now it's winter I need a little electronic help.