This display base provides a setting for an interesting, although hypothetical aircraft, the Arado Ar234 "P" nightfighter. While the Ar234 was built and operated successfully in small numbers as a bomber and photo-recon plane, this version was designed on paper but never built.
It starts with the standard Ar234C airframe, adds a Berlin radar dome on the nose and redesigns the cockpit. Also, a radar operator position is added in the rear of the fusleage. This model is based on the Hobbycraft kit, with a Unicraft conversion kit.
By 1945, Luftwaffe airfields were expanded into remote areas, mostly hidden in forests or even along highways..
The constant need for protection from air attack:
The diorama is finished with a plexiglass case to protect it from dust and breakage.
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