In this post I will explain how I made a rather curious piece of scenery from a 2 euro toy model from AliExpress to use in Frontline Heroes: Fields of Normandy.
The first thing is to buy the model, which for 2 euros is already more than we can expect. It has a medium quality, and it is very easy to assemble, there are just a few pieces and the difficulty is quite easy. The degree of detail is passable... and for a piece of scenery even more. But what interests us the most about this model is its price... 2 euros...
Come on... for 2 euros you can afford to screw it up as much as you want... It´s not an Italieri model costing 20 euros...
Before I´m asked many times for a link to that plane, I have to say that I don't want to put a link as the aliexpress shop that sells them may change the link or just do t sell them anymore.
So, I would advise to check aliexpress and search for "plane model" putting the cheapest results first... And that's it... There are plenty of models to choose from... Enjoy!!!
There are a few pieces and they fit perfectly, in fact you don't need any glue, everything goes smoothly if you follow the instructions in perfect Chinese ...
Once the model is assembled we proceed to make some big damage, in my case I am going to split a wing and I am going to put it on a different base so that I can move it on the table and use it as a cover.
With a kitchen scissors it is more than enough to be able to cut the plastic, putting them on the bases we are going to use, as advice, choose bases that are irregular in shape, so they will be better integrated into the board (a square base is seen from afar).
Once placed on the bases, we will use foam cardboard cutouts to make the elevations, gluing everything with white glue, and using filling paste (aquaplast) to give a shape to the base and hide the edges.
Once the filler paste dries, we give the plane some paint with a sandy brown texture (to represent that it has just suffered a forced landing), we give the paste a layer of white glue and we add sand to it to texturize.
When everything is dry, we give it a layer of brown earth (dark earth from Vallejo I put on it) and this already begins to take color.
When the earth brown paint is dry, we give it lights with a lighter color (Iraqi sand from Vallejo in my case) and add grass, bushes, tufts and whatever you want ...
To simulate the forced landing, I decided to put a couple of broken logs and some oil stains on the ground, but this is already to everyone's taste.
And so, with a cheap model (rmember... 2 euros) in one afternoon we make ourselves a piece of scenery or an objective that is more than good looking and its going to attract most of the people.
And once finished...
Stay tuned because this piece of terrain will appear in next games of weird ww2...
Things are going to get weirder...
Edit:
After finishing the plane I was told that the cockpit of that plane had a central piece that moved to open and close, and not as a whole piece, so I took it out and cut the center piece with a hot knife and put it back...
And this is the result:
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