Finished, 1/48 Hasegawa Ju-87 B-2 Stuka Dive Bomber.

I like it. :)

looks better than my Lindberg Ju-87B. That's for sure.  :)

I built a Trumpeter 1/32 Stuka last year with the help of Bish.  It had the same color markings.  This is another fantastic example that's going to be added into your ever growing museum!  Thanks for sharing!

Toshi

Nice loking Stuka, i do like the yellow nosed aircrfat. Nice job on the splinter pattern.

Thanks Gang! A little story on the greenhouse. The painting lines were really shallow on the canopies. I struggled through the windshield with my fine brush and sharpend toothpick tools but I just couldn't pull the long lines on the big pieces. I finally went back to my other method of cutting fine strips of thin stripeing tape and applying them. I'm still messing with it but it's working. You can also pre-paint them before application. Not perfect but better than my old method in this case. 

Max

Did anyone notice that I actually started the engine and fired the guns a few times so it wouldn't look totally new before taxiing to the museum? Where's my wax and cleaners?

Max

Did you hit the cat?

Looks great, Max.  I've done the striping with decals the same way, paint a sheet of decal paper and cut it into thin strips and apply.

...not bad...

We all have our reasons for building a certain model. There's more than one reason on this Stuka that always leads to a story one of which was told before under a different post. My uncle Don was in north Africa during WWII serving in the !st Armor and was a tank commander. He told me as a kid about a daily many Stuka attack on their position always at noon. The British were contacted and waited with Spitfires high above the next day. "What happend?" I asked. My uncle just smiled and replied "They got 'em all." 

The second story was told by two lovely older British sisters visiting us and when seeing an Aircraft of WWII poster in my office told several stories about several of the aircraft depicted and what they sounded like. They both looked at the Stuka and in harmony told of a Stuka attack coming home from school where the both had to jump in a muddy water filled ditch with their good school clothes on. Mom was not happy when they arrived home they said and giggled together. 

Anyway my Stuka has sirens, a terrifing sound according to the British ladies and my uncle. Good and scary stories by all witnesses!

Max

Nice job on that Stuka, Max. It's a fussier model to build than it looks at first glance, isn't it?

Thanks for sharing your canopy taping method. Interesting, and it looks to have worked quite well.

Nice job Max! Really like the way the canopy turned out.  I've tried the decal way a few times and they never turned out like that.

Jim  

Hey, thanks for the comments Gang! And if it hadn't been for all the nice people and their advice on the Forum I may never have saved my silvery decals! Thanks all!  

Max

PS--You guys have re-fired me on modeling!

A little revamping of the Museum's 1/48 section for the Stuka and she seems to be at home next to the Me-262 and Kettenkraftrad! Back to the A-37 Dragonfly that I keep getting sidetracked on.  

Max

Hodakamax

A little revamping of the Museum's 1/48 section for the Stuka and she seems to be at home next to the Me-262 and Kettenkraftrad! Back to the A-37 Dragonfly that I keep getting sidetracked on.  

Max

 

Regarding the tape method for canopy frames, where do you get that stuff? Is it auto supply tape, or some kind of crafting material?

Aggieman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regarding the tape method for canopy frames, where do you get that stuff? Is it auto supply tape, or some kind of crafting material?

 

Max

Aggieman

 

 

Hodakamax

A little revamping of the Museum's 1/48 section for the Stuka and she seems to be at home next to the Me-262 and Kettenkraftrad! Back to the A-37 Dragonfly that I keep getting sidetracked on.  

Max

 

 

 

 

That is a nice collection you have there.

 

Regarding the tape method for canopy frames, where do you get that stuff? Is it auto supply tape, or some kind of crafting material?

 

Finally in answer to your question, the striping tape can be purchased or ordered through Auto Supply stores. This one has two different widths and a clear handling strip. Of course it be cut to any width. 

Max