Maple Field in the Mid-60s

26/6/2017

It has been a while since I did much with my Wright Field diorama but I did recently tidy it up and make sure it's all looking ok. The arrival of May's Aeroclassics included a pair of DC-8s complete with 15 piece GSE sets and it gave me an opportunity to disguise Wright Field, which usually represents a US airport, as Maple Field - somewhere in Canada on the West Coast in the early-mid 60s.

I didn't make any mods to the model itself for this I just sourced a selection of likely aircraft from my Canadian shelf. I'm actually not certain that they can all fit together temporally but they are close. One thing I did do was play about after the fact with the black and white filter in Picasa to give the photos a bit more of that period feel. Below you can see the difference it makes:

Here is a collection of shots. All the models are Aeroclassics 1:400 scale. Double click a photo to see it full size:

Close to a full house in this shot with Quebecair One-Eleven and Nordair L-1049 added in

I also wanted to pose both the DC-8s together on the two airbridged gates, which are inspired by the first airbridged gates at Atlanta, Georgia:

In the last setup we jump a bit forward towards the end of the 1960s with the addition of a CP DC-8-63 and Wardair 727-100. The Stretch Eight only barely fits in the gate: