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IJAAF Ki-45 Toryu (dragon slayer) from a home defense unit in 1945 Japan. The Toryu was judged to have the worst high altitude performance of all Army fighters by the Japanese themselves (even worse than the Oscar), but it was used against B-29s nonetheless because nothing else was available in sufficient numbers.
The kit is 1:72 and from Hasegawa.
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A vignette about the final fighting in Berlin in May 1945. The slogan translates to "Nothing for us, everything for Germany!". The poster says "Victory or Bolshevism".
Here is a scene during the german retreat through Silesia (nowadays southern Poland) at the end of January 1945. The chaotic collapse of the german frontline caused a huge refugee crisis when the german population tried to escape the raping and pillaging russians.
The early Hetzer “Hilde” got photographed at a collection dump after the war and is attributed to the 97th Jäger Division, which fought in Silesia. It is literally "back tracking" into the Reich on my diorama.
I kept the color pallet muted and desaturated because the few color pictures of german refugees in early 1945 only show black and drab clothing. Some of the period civilians on dioramas nowadays are as colorful as cartoon fruit salads by comparison.
A vignette about a US tank commander, who returns to the wreck of his former mount and the final resting place of his crew. They got caught up in the german onslaught on December 16th 1944. After a month of bitter fighting the germans got pushed back to the starting line and the old Sarge takes a quiet moment to bide farewell in late January 1945.
This is one of the abandoned Type 89 Otsu tanks left behind on the island of Bougainville, when the japanese troops retreated into the jungle in spring 1945. There is a nice article about them in the "After the Battle" magazine no. 147. I tried to make the tank look like it hadn't moved for a while when the Aussi diggers moved up to it (rusty tracks and random leafs). The model is from Finemolds with metal tracks and a turned barrel. The figures are 3D printed offerings from 3Djason, available through his shops on ebay and Etsy.
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Russian 2S19 Msta-S with "dacha-armor" and cope-cage in Ukraine. The model is inspired by a picture from March 2024. The Msta and figures are in 1:72 and the ukrainian FPV drone is in 1:35 (from the company SPALAH and actually made in Ukraine).
B-29 "Celestial Queen" from 40BG 44BS 58BW, based on Guam in 1945. The scale is 1:144.
The ordinance going down range is the full load out of 184 M-47 incendiary bombs. The M-47 was a thin walled bomb designed as a chemical warfare weapon. Against Japan it was filled with Napalm and weighed around 50-60kg (100 - 110lb). They were usually carried by pathfinders and first wave aircraft. The goal was to start "appliance fires" i.e. fires large enough to require the dispatch of a motorized fire engine. Follow on waves would carry clusters of smaller M-69s, a 3kg (6lb) Napalm bomblet. The M-69s would overwhelm "primary firefighters" i.e. civilians with water buckets and wet rugs and turn the target city into a fire storm... The Osprey Air Campaign volume "Japan 1944 - 45" by Mark Lardas gives a very good account of the B-29 campaign.
The B-29 is one of my favorite aircraft and I look at every model of it. However to the best of my memory I can't remember ever seeing a model with incendiaries, numerous examples of both nukes and endless rows of HE general purpose bombs but no fire bombs. So here they are.
P-51D Mustang, ETO 1944 in 1:72
Ki-100 fighter, Japan 1945 (1:48)
The Ki-100 was a late war japanese fighter design, that was borne out of desperation. The inline engine of the Ki-61 Hien (Tony) suffered from shortages and reliability problems and the japanese were in dire need of interceptors to defend against the B-29 raids. So they patched the more reliable and more readily available Ha-112 radial engine to the Tony fuselage. The resulting Ki-100 turned out to be a lucky stroke with excellent performance and is considered one of the best japanese fighters of WW2. With only 378 produced between March and August 1945 it came to late, to make a difference though. The sole survivor is on display at the Royal Air Force Museum in London.
The last of the Sakura-plaque Kamikazes. This time a A6M2 Zero i.e. an early production model, which was outdated by 1945. It belonged to the 5th Shichisei-tai, which flew tokko missions against Allied warships off Okinawa. The unit's last aircraft were expended on April 29th 1945.
The kit is from Eduard in 1:48 and comes with the 113-markings based on the color profile in "Desperate sunset", an excellent work on Kamikaze operations from beginning to end.
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Another Kamikaze from the Okinawa campaign in 1945.
This time it is a A6M5c Type-52c Zero, the late war version of the famous IJN fighter. It carries a 500 kg (1,100 lb) "No. 50 Ordinary bomb Mod. 2", which was an armor piercing anti ship weapon. In order to carry that much weight, the Type-52c had to be "semi-defanged" i.e. the 20mm cannons as well as the 13mm MG in the nose were removed and the ammo of the remaining 13mm MGs in the wings was cut to 100 rounds per gun. This gave the pilot about 8 seconds of fire, which was to be used to suppress AA gunners on the target ship during the final dive.
This configuration was pioneered by the 721st Naval Air Group (NAG) also known as the "Jinrai Butai" (Thundergods). This was the unit in charge of operating the Ohka Kamikaze rocket planes. Due to the loss of many specialized Ohka-specific Betty bombers, there were more Ohka pilots than there were bombers to ferry them. However there was no shortage of Zero fighters. Ohka pilots flying in Zeros on kamikaze attacks were called "Kenmu-tai" missions. The volunteers of 721st NAG were more experienced than the average kamikaze pilot (presumably because the Ohka was seen as a wonder weapon and only pitched to proven pilots). And they had to qualify for the Ohka by successfully completing a flight in the unpowered Ohka training glider. The 721st did significantly more damage with Kenmu-Missions than with Ohkas. The kamikaze hits on USS Bunker Hill and USS Enterprise are credited to Kenmu Zeros. "Blossoms from the sky" by Dan King is a superb account of the 721st NAG history in 1945.
Ki-43-III Hayabusa (Oscar) Kamikaze, Okinawa April 1945
The Oscar fighter of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF) was hopelessly obsolete by 1945 and most remaining one's were used as Kamikazes. They carried a 250kg (500lb) bomb on one side and a fuel tank on the other, both to get the range to reach Oki and to stabilize the airframe. Oscars were the IJAAF's main aircraft for the mass Kamikaze swarms. The pilots were mostly inexperienced officer candidates from university training programs with minimal flight hours.
The kit is Hasegawa in 1:48.
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka (1:48)
The base is a sakura wish plaque from the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo i.e. the main war memorial in Japan.
A combat scene from the South Pacific 1943 of the two F4U Corsairs chasing down a H6K Mavis flying boat. The scale is 1:144 with the Mavis from Trumpeter and the Corsairs form AFV Club.
Battle of Buna dio of the fighting in Dezember 1942. Australian infantry reduces a japanese field bunker with the help of a Stuart tank (scale 1:72).
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Ukrainian Bradley under attack by a russian Lancet drone, summer 2023 Ukraine. The ground part is in 1:72 and the drone is in 1:35 for forced perspective like what we saw endlessly in all those drone footage online.
IDF Puma Batash during Operation "Iron Swords" i.e. the ongoing Gaza incursion, scale 1:72.