Airplane Gnomes
Friday, 7th September 2007 by James Turnbull
Rather than the usual fare of flowerbeds, ponds or garden gnomes, Lloyd "Tud" Krohn decorates his garden with handmade aircraft.
The 1/16 scale models include a V-22 Osprey, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-38 Lightning, C-130 Hercules and an Apache helicopter.
Mr Krohn (I'm afraid I can't bring myself to call him "Tud") started building these odd garden ornaments over 17 years ago but, so far, nobody has figured out exactly why...
More info from Fox41 and ground level pictures on RC Groups. Thanks to sixftjafp.
To make things a little weirder, in an interview Mr. Krohn said that he wants his ashes scattered amongst his creations. Eccentric or not, though, I’ve got a lot of respect for the guy. I can hardly make a model that comes out of a kit, let alone make a much bigger one out of scratch. One article I read said that he hasn’t even had the chance to fly in any of the planes’ actual-size counterparts… Maybe somebody will throw him a bone.
I have put pictures up of these wonderful models and visited with him as well several years back.
http://carmibands.com/Tud_Krohn/