LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: Second Air Force on September 04, 2011, 05:42:49 AM
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I had intended to finish this airplane in time to be inserted in LLL Magazine #5 to go with Nico's excellent Ju-87 article. I didn't even get close, so I'll just share the project here on the forum.
This is the old Monogram (now Revell) Stuka kit and is exactly as I remember it from many years ago. I picked this one up at a substantial discount a while back and decided I needed to build one again. Then I dove into the parts boxes and found what is left of my first one--both main landing gear assemblies and some parts of the canopy. I ended up using the tires from the original so as to have at least a bit of my thirty year old build incorporated into this one. It's not a heavily detailed kit, and it has the typical raised panel lines of that era, but it fits together nicely and looks the part.
Here's an in-progress view of the cockpit. About the only thing included in the kit is the floor, two seats (the gunner/radio operator seat is inaccurate) and the instrument panel. I used bits from the spares boxes and styrene for everything else. The radio is from a C-47 (I think) and the ammunition boxes are from a B-25 cut to fit. The machine gun mount is part of a landing gear from a 1/72 Do-17 I built with my mentor forty-five or more years ago. :-wise
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7735.jpg)
The walkways on the D I'm building have "anti-skid" strips on them so I used Evergreen strip for these.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/002.jpg)
A couple of other shots of it after painting the underside. I've got the canopy masked (finally) and installed so it'll be back in paint soon.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7770.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/003.jpg)
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I like when the kit is good detailed in basic plastic parts ;)
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The outside of the entire kit is exactly as it comes from the box. Only a little filler on the seams was required. It may not be a kit that can be matched with the modern quality but is very relaxing to put together. About the only complaint I have is that the cockpit is so basic, and a trip to the junk box or a resin upgrade fixes that problem. Even the transparencies are able to be used with just some cleanup. There is a little flash on some of the parts, I'm sure because the mold has worn somewhat over the years.
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As always it's a real pleasure to follow your builds... :)
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As always it's a real pleasure to follow your builds... :)
Definitely! Excellent work on whole plane! ;)
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Thanks, y'all. It's really a fun kit to build, and if the canopies were left closed it could be nice right out-of-the-box. One thing about the Ju-87, it's BIG and there are so many interesting camouflage schemes to choose from that a whole fleet could be built.
I wish there were an airworthy survivor or a new-build 1/1 replica! As I recall from a thread on WIX long ago, there is a group in Germany or Austria that is slowly working on a non-airworthy machine that will incorporate bits from recovered pieces.
Scott
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Here are the exhaust flame dampers in the process of being enhanced with some aluminum tubing and foil tape. The kit parts are rather detail-less and needed something to bring them to life.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7795.jpg)
And a few shots of the painting process. It's been clearcoated and maybe? the decals will go on in the next few days.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7786.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7791.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7794.jpg)
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I am impressed how how smoothly bring kits into life mate :-clap
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Great painting SAF.
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Nice!!!
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Thanks, y'all. Dragan, you'll like the next step after the decals go on..... ;) I still need to find or make a couple of different markings for this before I can add the final touches.
This evening I started with the decals and needed a pair of swastikas. Back into the old decal bag and I found this, removed from a Scale Aircraft Modeling magazine from around 1980 or thereabouts.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7803.jpg)
I clipped out the versions I needed and dipped them in water. I was concerned they'd be brittle or fall apart, but they worked just great.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7804.jpg)
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Good old times when they give page with color profiles and free decals inside :)
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It's called quality. ;)
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Yes, and the magazine was quite inexpensive at the time! Ahhh, the "good old days".....
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Hard to believe how it fall down today :( Anyway, old magazine spirit live in decals for this nice kit :)
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I've purchased a few of them on the auction sites when I was starting to build up references for specific subjects such as the Barracuda and Gannet. I've got one with the Hawker Hunter in all its foreign service markings that is wonderful to behold.
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Hawker Hunter in all its foreign service markings??? This is interesting mate, have you seen topic with color profiles here on Art section?
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Hmm..... :-think I haven't, simply because I haven't a kit to work with right now. I've always wanted to build a Kuwaiti two-seater. :-love
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Any kit in 1/48 scale? I know that you prefer that scale?
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Well, I hadn't even thought about a Hunter since awakening from my long "modeling slumber".........I'll have to do some research on this idea as I have three real Hunters here locally that I may be able to use as reference material. It's just a beautiful airplane in the single-seat configuration. Of course, I always want to build the ugly duckling rather than the swan! Maybe if I find the Aeroclub two-seater I'll go forward.
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The basic national insignia are now applied and a first coat of flat. I'm going to have to put this one on the back burner for a week or so to finish another project and attack the C.R.42 Group Build.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7817.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7818.jpg)
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Excellent. ;)
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Here's the underside "tiger-stripe" night camouflage. Perhaps tomorrow the topside will get its final coat.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7870.jpg)
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This is nice camouflage, I have image somewhere
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So nice work! :-clap
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Splendid!!!
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Nice work on an old classic :)
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Lest everyone think I put this project in limbo, here is a small update.
There are too many models on my bench and so this one had to go, one way or the other. Since it was closer to being done than not I went ahead and finished the Ju-87 today. One item I had to deal with was the conical flash supressors on the wing guns. I dug through the spares but found nothing so I used some Eduard parts tree material to build my own. To do this simply stretch a bit of sprue and then use the tapered part to fashion the flash-tube. Just drill the end out and glue it to the cannon barrel.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7941.jpg)
Here is the model in the bench vise while the left exhaust flame supressor is drying. I'll take some photos of the finished airplane tomorrow.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7940.jpg)
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This small details take more time then build of basic airframe but they actually bring kit into life ;)
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So interesting. That called modeling. ;) :-clap
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Here are some photos of the completed Ju-87.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7955.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7957.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7960.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7953.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7949.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_7952.jpg)
She was assigned to 1./NSG 9 and based in Tuscania, Italy in the spring of 1944. My dad used to tell stories of the Luftwaffe flying over at night and dropping antipersonnel ordnance and high explosive bombs both while he was in North Africa and Italy. As I did with the Hs.129 restoration, I decided to build this model as a machine that could conceivably have kept Dad awake on those Italian nights.
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Nice work Scott, really well finished. Bravo!
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Excellent work Scott. Bravo. :-clap :-clap
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Very nice!
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I like this Nachtschlacht scheme, so different comparing to RLM 70/71... :-ok
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I like this Nachtschlacht scheme, so different comparing to RLM 70/71... :-ok
I thought it was interesting when I started researching this that the "squiggle" camouflage varied a lot between aircraft. I wonder if the individual ground crews painted their assigned airplanes--that would help explain the different artistry from ship to ship. During the research I realized that this unit transitioned from CR.42s to the Ju-87. In one article an aircrew member recollected that his airplane still smelled like new paint inside when it arrived.
A "war story" that pertains to this thread. My dad told me that standard practice in his forward maintenance unit was to dig a slit trench under a truck, tank, or other vehicle and then sleep more-or-less peacefully during the night attacks. One night he was dozing off when the air raid started and a "close one" hit very near dad's trench. When the raid was over and everything was back to normal, dad crawled out to see that the truck he dug his trench under had nine out of ten tires flattened and a bunch of shrapnel holes in it from a fragmentation bomb that a Stuka had dropped. He was VERY glad that the ground at their bivouac area allowed them to dig deep trenches.......
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transitioned from CR.42s
And one crewman who worked on adaptation of this aircraft for Luftwaffe remember the use of grey colors (one with violet shade). So your options are fine.
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The violet shaded grey fits perfectly with the "tiger stripe" camouflage on the lower surfaces. I used Grauviolett darkened with a bit of black to do that.
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You make this kit great!!
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Man that painting kicks ass :)
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Just saw this- fantastic work! Very interesting camo pattern. Thanks for documenting that.
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Just saw this- fantastic work! Very interesting camo pattern. Thanks for documenting that.
Jon,
My scheme is more extrapolation than fact, I'm afraid. I had several photos of machines from NSG 9 and each airplane has a somewhat different disruptive pattern on it, both top and bottom. Some were more uniform "snake" squiggles and one was a tight cross-hatched pattern on most of the airplane. These were new airplanes when NSG 9 received them, fresh in either the splinter pattern or the overall green of the last production batches. I believe (my supposition only) each crew was handed the spray gun and compressor and the results were different as each plane crew did their own birds. Mine is from a grainy photo and this one seemed to have several different "designs" on it, almost as if different men shot different parts of the airplane. So, it's close but probably not perfectly accurate.
Thanks for the positive comments, though!
Scott