1:72 Ukraine Starokostyantyniv Air Base - Base - Acrylic 3mm (280x180mm)

Kelik 1:72 Ukraine Starokostyantyniv Air Base – display base

This color base from Kelik shows the paved apron of the Ukrainian air base Starokostyantyniv. Compared with deck motifs it is a land setting, so what is expected on it is not a naval machine but equipment operating from a conventional airfield.

A land surface as a scene

Concrete and asphalt surfaces have artwork of their own: the joints between slabs, rubber marks from tires and traces of maintenance. It is exactly those elements that give a model a sense of scale better than any single-color base. An aircraft on them looks parked rather than exhibited. With machines that have prominent landing gear in particular, it changes the overall impression of finished work far more than one would expect.

The Starokostyantyniv base

Starokostyantyniv lies in the western part of Ukraine and is among the long-used airfields of the country's military aviation. It is associated mainly with the operation of tactical bombers and reconnaissance machines, which have worked from it for decades. For a modeler it is a setting into which eastern European equipment and its newer successors both fit.

When to reach for this base

• Under aircraft of eastern European design in 1:72
• For collections focused on the air arms of central and eastern Europe
• As a land alternative to deck motifs
• For a display table where the scene is to complete the story of a model

The product is intended for displaying a model and contains no equipment.