Revell Ju-87D-5

[No.1]

This small details take more time then build of basic airframe but they actually bring kit into life

[Sall]

So interesting. That called modeling.

[Second Air Force]

Here are some photos of the completed Ju-87.

Revell Ju-87D-5

Revell Ju-87D-5

Revell Ju-87D-5

Revell Ju-87D-5

Revell Ju-87D-5

Revell Ju-87D-5

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.

[ta152c]

Nice work Scott, really well finished. Bravo!

[No.1]

 

[Sall]

Excellent work Scott. Bravo.

[draken35]

Very nice!

[Profa]

I like this Nachtschlacht scheme, so different comparing to RLM 70/71...

[Second Air Force]

I like this Nachtschlacht scheme, so different comparing to RLM 70/71...

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.......

[No.1]

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.

 

[Second Air Force]

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.

[No.1]

You make this kit great!!

[dragan_mig31]

Man that painting kicks ass

[jonbius]

Just saw this- fantastic work! Very interesting camo pattern. Thanks for documenting that.

[Second Air Force]

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