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                        1:48 Stuka G-2 query...

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                        dahut
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                          January 2007
                        • From: Glue and paint smeared bench, in La La Land
                        Posted by dahut on Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:19 AM

                        For a few alternate paint schemes try the web site "wings palette", some of it is in russian but I find it helpful.

                        Wings Pallette is good, although the majority of what they have there is different colorings of Rudels plane. But, you hit on a tip there: Removed the Englih language filtering from searches. I found some excellent sites in Russian, German, Czech and Belgian. 

                        Decals are another matter. If you have a "spares box" you can use those as the Luftwaffe had a fairly standard system of markings.

                        Agreed. And fortunately, the Gustav Ju 87 was fairly bland, as such things go. Most of the G's I've found had little in the way of markings on them aside from national markings and an occasional aircraft designator. Group and staffel markings were often just not used - some of the few aircraft in the Luftwaffe to do this, aside from the Jagdwaffe.

                        Im now considering just converting to a Dora, though, as there were far more flamboyant markings to be seen on that variant.

                        Cheers, David
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                        meatloaf109
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                          February 2007
                        Posted by meatloaf109 on Saturday, February 17, 2007 6:52 AM
                        For a few alternate paint schemes try the web site "wings palette", some of it is in russian but I find it helpful. I, too, prefer to model subjects that are not what everyone else does. Decals are another matter, if you have a "spares box" you can use those as the Luftwaffe had a fairly standard system of markings
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                        dahut
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                          January 2007
                        • From: Glue and paint smeared bench, in La La Land
                        1:48 Stuka G-2 query...
                        Posted by dahut on Thursday, February 1, 2007 9:56 PM

                        I have been legworking a 1:48 G-2, looking for a scheme to do. In all this, I've seen about a million "Panzerknackern" done in the markings of Herr Oberst. Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Here's what it looks like, in case you don't know:

                        I read his story, "Stuka Pilot!" years ago and have much admiration for him. A fine airman, a brave warrior, a good officer and a true gentleman, he was quite a man. He lost his leg figthing tha Russians and died in 1986, the most decorated German soldier in history and was never a Nazi party member. The only bad thing (besides his leg), it seems, is that he flew for the wrong side, and at least one British commander expressed that precise sentiment!

                        His G-2, "< - + -" has appeared in about evry guise imaginable, from standard splinter green to winter whitewash, with spats and without spats, in dioramas and as shelf sitters - - But, I would like to do something else in the way of a Stuka G-2! Surely he wasn't the only man to fly the G-2 ... 172 Gustavs were converted from the D-5; did he fly them all?? I have found the name of only one other fellow "Kanonenvogel" pilot:

                        Hermann Neumann.  368 combat missions, credited with destroying 68 Russian tanks, recommended for the Ritterkreuz.

                        Does anyone know where on earth I can get markings for some other "Tankbusting Stuka's" besides Rudels?

                        Cheers, David
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