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DC-10 "TC-JAV Ankara" Just Before Crash Diorama |
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DC-10 "TC-JAV Ankara" Just Before Crash Diorama |
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| December 02,
2007:
I began to build the base. I gave some small inclination to the ground base, according to the elevations I read from Google Earth at the crash site coordinates. I glued wood peripherally at the inside, to fix the ground base to the main display base with screws from below. |
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| This is how the base will roughly look like. |
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| December 08,
2007:
I began exercising with the trees. I cut some thuja branch ends from our garden, let dry on the radiators for 4 days. I cut the ends to scale lengths for the trees, and after applying hair spray on, I dipped the tree in a mixture of Faller's light and medium green scattering media, so that they stuck on the branches. |
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| Here is a close-up photo of the trees. |
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| Next step was to determine the 3-D position of the plane. From the accident reports, it is known that the plane was leaning with 17 degrees to its port side, with a nose pitch of 4 degrees. So I made a template that the plane would rest on, with the required angles. The inclination of the ground was compensated for, while cutting the sheets. |
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| I added two more wires by heat-sinking. Now the plane had the correct 3-D position in the air, and the wires would be hidden by the trees. |
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| I chose to work with window glass putty as the soil. I began at the center, where the plane would rest. |
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| I covered the putty with shades of grass, soil, stone, etc. and started with hiding the 3 supporting wires with trees. |
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| Then I continued to work from the center to outer regions. I paid attention to chopped-off trees where the left wing passed. |
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| I also paid attention to the trees below the fuselage and the right wing, which did not touch any trees but the air motion swept the trees. |
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| December 09,
2007:
I continued with partial covering of the base and tree manufacturing. |
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