Stukas

weebles

Member since
December 2002
From: USA

Posted by weebles on Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:01 AM

The 1/24 Stuka was first produced by MPC. They also produced a Spitfire, P-51, and BF-109. What I remember the most about the MPC kits was the soft plastic. The surface was almost porous. They were later released by Airfix. Did Airfix use a harder plastic or was it soft like the MPC kit? It was pretty nice for the time. I hate to admit this but we're going back some 30 years. Yikes!
Dave

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 9:39 AM

Both Airfix and MPC produced the 1/24 Ju87B-2. I have 2 MPC kits - not much room at the moment to continue the build!
The Stuka at the Chicago museum is a B-2. The one in London is a D-1/G-2. From what I've read, it was used in the film BoB. It had its 37mm guns removed for that purpose. All of the pics I've found on it show it in the D-1 mock up.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 4, 2003 9:38 PM

J-Hulk, yes, Airfix & MPC had a kit swapping agreement back then, we got a few MPC subjects in England through it. Mostly cars if I remember rightly.
Dark Blue world, yes, a good movie. Notice how the Spitfires are coded A I, thats because some of the aerial scenes are unused bits from the film 'Battle of Britain'.
Only CGI JU87's and JU 88's were seen in Enemy at the gates. I didn't think the JU 88's were that good actually, the props weren't too realistic & the way they all 'bobbed up & down' in flight.
Pete

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 4, 2003 1:57 PM

The Stuka was a very good aircraft, but definately on the wild looking side.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 4, 2003 12:14 PM

Yeah,ww2 movies are not real common these days,especially one with lots of aircraft,even computer generated ones.You've got to make the most of them when they're there. I did really like Enemy at the Gates. Weren't there also some He 111s flying around in it too ?
Sulo

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nmayhew

Member since
July 2003
From: Kent, England

Posted by nmayhew on Thursday, December 4, 2003 5:38 AM

hi sulo,

enemy at the gates is sooooooooo cool by the way...
regarding the film "dark blue world", i did exactly the same thing: "oh that's a mk I, that's a mk II etc etc; only thing is that my girlfriend is from prague, czech republic, and so had quite an interest in it all!! Smile [:)]

and i think she may be making her first kit pretty soon!! Tongue [:P]

the film is quite good and worth a watch...
regards,
nick

Kind regards, Nicholas

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 4, 2003 2:18 AM

Gday,
Bit off the subject of stukas but there was a movie out awhile ago called Dark Blue World about Czech pilots in the BoB. My girlfriend got bored to death with me pointing out all the different marks of Spitfires they must have had to collect to film the airstrip line scenes.
Sulo

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 10:36 PM

All the aircraft in the film were computer generated. The Stuka's were measured up from the one at RAF Cosford. The scene in which they appear was not filmed at Stalingrad on the river, but on a lake near Berlin, EVERYTHING in the background, including lots of people, kit & Stalingrad, was CGI. There was a special 'how we did it' program shown a while ago on M-net (South African TV)

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J-Hulk

Member since
February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 11:02 AM

Thanks, Oggy!
I figured an old 1/24 aircraft kit must have been Airfix, but for some reason MPC was sticking in my head.
Airfix wasn't imported to the States in the 70's by MPC by any chance?

~Brian

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 10:22 AM

the big stuka is made by Airfix, I wish I had the room to build it.
The stuka in London is at the museum at Hendon in the BoB hall.
It is the aircraft that the Matchbox tank buster was based on, complete with T34
stencil on the nose .

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 9:49 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tempestjohnny

I built the Hasegawa Stuka B-2 OOB really nice kit and decals would recommend it to anybody JOHN

Yep! Ive got that. Its a beutiful kit.

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J-Hulk

Member since
February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 6:33 AM

Didn't MPC offer a big 1/24 Stuka? Maybe it was Airfix? Can't recall.
I didn't have one, but a buddy of mine did. My main recollection is that pieces were constantly falling off of it.

~Brian

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rjkplasticmod

Member since
February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Monday, December 1, 2003 9:40 PM

In 1/48, the Hasegawa Stuka releases are simply the best. The Acadamy 1/72 Stuka is a very nice kit but has some outline flaws. Wonder how long before Trumpeter does one in 1/32 or 1/24?

Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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tempestjohnny

Member since
November 2003
From: Naples, FL

Posted by tempestjohnny on Monday, December 1, 2003 9:37 PM

I built the Hasegawa Stuka B-2 OOB really nice kit and decals would recommend it to anybody JOHN

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 9:25 PM

I just received the Eduard P.E. set for the 1/48 Hasegawa Ju 87G-2 today. This is probably the nicest, most extensive etched set I've ever seen. I can't wait to use it ! If anyone wants to detail a Ju 87G-2, I HIGHLY recommend this set.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 3:19 PM

Mind you they were sitting ducks when facing aerial opposition.... Academy G model in 1/72 is just superb by the way.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 11:53 AM

Those Stukas were computer-generated and very well at that-also look for some JU-88's later in the movie. Stukas could occupy a modeler full time for quite a while-ugly in an interesting sort of way-one version even had passenger pods on the wings ("Warplanes of the Third Reich").

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 11:45 AM

I too think they are coool. They are my fav WW2 German A/C.

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wildwilliam

Member since
December 2009
From: West Grove, PA

Posted by wildwilliam on Monday, December 1, 2003 11:45 AM

many variantions available in 1/48.

i built the 1/32 Revell Germany kit last winter.
went together very nicely.
a small problem w/ the front section of the windscreen,
but i should have done a better job dry fitting.

masking the canopies will eat up some time! :-)

i have not seen the movie, but i assume that the planes must be from computer as i think there are only 2 intact Stukas in the world and neither of them fly.
one (B model?) is in museum in London(?).
the other is a D and is in Chicago, i think.

ed.

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nsclcctl

Member since
May 2003
From: USA

Stukas

Posted by nsclcctl on Monday, December 1, 2003 11:05 AM

Watchin enemy at the gate or what-ever the name is this weekend and saw the scene with the dive bombing stukas. They were cool lookin planes. That is my next build for sure!!!

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