My Lindberg JU-87 Stuka

Tom T,

Nice build, looks great, I think too that it looks better than the box. 

One of my first kits as kid was a Ju-87 Stuka but the kit came with an electric motor that had to be built also, to spin the prop.  I never could get the motor to work even with my uncles help.  I can't remember what company made the kit, but I'd like to find another one.  This was back in the early 703, maybe even the late 60s. 

THanks for posting Tom T.  What's next?

Daywalker wrote:

Nicely done!  Have not built that kit, but built the Hasegawa offering years ago.  Had a lot of fun with it too.

If the saying is true, that "You just shake the box and you got a Tamiya kit built", for this one,"You just dump the box's contents and it falls together".

Notice in the pictures I used no green putty, nor did I have to especially sand, file or fill any surface on the entire kit.

It went together whithin a day, and I spent the rest of the week fiddling with the painting and marking details.

This is the opposite of a Czech A-12 Shirke kit I have on the "back-burner" wherein the "wunnerful resin bits-and-pieces"engine took me one week, as well as the "fantistic resin bits-and-pieces"cockpit another week, and with the lack of alignment pins or tabs, I have had to re-fit various parts multiple times to get them to look right. I am wondering of I should just loose the junky vacuum-formed canopies and call it quits!

Tom T

dmk wrote:

Looks really great. Those Lindberg kits can be a challenge. Nice paint job too.

The main challenge about the Lindberg kits is that frankly a pilot figure is generally more difficult to detail paint then a typical detailed cockpit, and I believe that is where the main complaint comes from regarding any lack thereof.

I have to hold the figure using a special hobby base with clamps, and a magnifying visor to do 1/48th or smaller human figures, while using half a dozen colors, but not cockpits.

But frankly, I enjoy the results better.

Tom T

kielers wrote:

Tom T, Nice build, looks great, I think too that it looks better than the box.  One of my first kits as kid was a Ju-87 Stuka but the kit came with an electric motor that had to be built also, to spin the prop.  I never could get the motor to work even with my uncles help.  I can't remember what company made the kit, but I'd like to find another one.  This was back in the early 703, maybe even the late 60s.  THanks for posting Tom T.  What's next?

I am working on  Hobby Craft Do-17Z and a Revell Dr.1 for the Flyboys Group build in that order.

Tom T

wayne baker wrote:

Very nice work.  I built a couple as a kid, and bought one a few years ago, feeling the nostalgia.  I haven't got mine together yet.  Looks like you filled in the hole for the stand.  Is that the case?  I think the stand is a neat part of this kit.

No, they eliminated the hole and the stand both.

This one I am going to suspend from my hobby room's ceiling, so I really don't mind.

Tom T

T_Terrific wrote:

dmk wrote: Looks really great. Those Lindberg kits can be a challenge. Nice paint job too. The main challenge about the Lindberg kits is that frankly a pilot figure is generally more difficult to detail paint then a typical detailed cockpit, and I believe that is where the main complaint comes from regarding any lack thereof.

wyoroy wrote:

Well done Tom  I have to ask, the one you built as a kid, did it have an explosive end as most of mine did.

No, we had a jealous cat that got into my bedroom and crashed as many of my display items as possible onto a concrete slab floor from a special set of shelves I had built, including a rare Athearn 4-6-2 steam locomotive in HO scale.

Actually, I recall building the kit twice.

That and the occasional earthquakes were hard on my collection back then.

Tom T