Luft Hansa with Posters

Luft Hansa Airline operated out of Berlin until almost the last day of the war. Their last plane left Templehof on April 22 and the Russians captured the airfield on April 24, 1945. I have been working on a building interior for Luft Hansa. It is not based on a particular building but it is typical of the type of services that an airline would have to provide to operate. This photo shows the dispatch office, and you can see the corner of a desk and the chair. You can see the bunk room with bunk beds for aircrew to sleep between flights with a quick turn around. There is also the restroom. The two silver blades are in the repair room, they are propeller blades.

The dispatch office from a lower view. The gray wall has the door to the restroom. The door on the right is to the repair room. The door on the left is the bunk room and then the door to the public area.

This is the public room. It has space for buying cigarettes in a machine, insurance from a machine, and posters that encourage people to mind their talking because the enemy is listening and two posters that advertise Luft Hansa services.

This is the repair room. The door leads to the dispatch office. We can see the propeller blades from a better view. There is an air compressor along the wall, a vice and tool box and engine part on the workbench. The poster shows white collar and blue collar workers toiling together as part of the DAF, German Labor Front. Not visible is a welding kit off to the right.

All of this is HO / OO scale made from sheet styrene for the floors and walls. Some of the furniture is Roco, Airfix and resin and scraps. The tools are Roco, the propeller is a broken prop from the spares box. I got the posters off the internet and sized them to fit the walls. In reality some of them may have been even smaller, but I wanted to be able to read them! The woodwork was painted with Floquil and the other items were Tamya, Gunze Sango, and Testors.

I will have more photos of this office, figures and accessories to go with it in a few days.