Ju 87 Stuka GB

Nice work on that cockpit, buddy! Is it just me or do those fuselage parts look extremely beefy?

Thanks buddy. Ye, I guess it is a bit. I guess they can only get the plastic so thin, especially companies like SH and in this scale, it stands out more.

Looking good Bish, hard to believe that's 1/72

I haven't posted in a while (crazy busy at work), but I have made some progress.  I've got her painted and "future'd" and have started on the decals.

The decals on this old kit are giving me fits, especially the dive brakes.

Thanks Bob, lots of people seem to say that lol. I have the canopy on now, the sanding was not as bad as I had expected, but cutting the canopy open was a bit of a pain. Hopefully some pre paint pics tomorrow.

Tom, nice work. Those dive markings are not easy at the best of times.

Looking for some information on a Stuka feature that has me stumped.  It's this:

It's a round/oval area behind the cockpit that is called a "Pell G IV cover" in one book.  Just what is this and does it have a plexiglass cover?  It's definitely not represented on the Hobby Craft model, so I thought I might add it since it appears to be a feature of D and G Stukas.

Thanks!

Gary

PS> After checking again, I've found I mis-spelled "Peil".  Think I've got more information now. 

Tom: Nice looking Stuka!

Gary: I believe it is some sort of antenna. I could be wrong though. It does have a plexiglass cover though.

It's an access panel. I'm not sure for what though. Gunner?

Amazing what you can find once you've SPELLED it correctly!  It's a direction finding unit.  Peil G IV type.

Thanks!

Glad you found it, I was going to print a picture I found in a book to see if it matched, but thats the name it gives in the book. There were two different types used. Another type is kind of teardrop shaped and mounts th the underside of the fuselage just behind the wings.

Doug

Gary, Quickboost do resin ones of those in 72nd, but I am not aware of any in 48th. Its strange because the Aires 72nd and 32nd cockpit includes it but the 48th one doesn't seem to.

Doug, do you have a pic of that, I have not come across this one. Was this in the B models.

Morning Bish... This is the picture I was looking at, Its from Squadron/Signal publications, Ju87 Stuka in action. There is another picture of an actual aircraft in one of my other books, I will just have to try and find. And yes I believe it was on some "Bs" and "Rs".

Hope this is helpful to you...

Doug 

Ok, now I feel stupid. I have had this book for ages, in fact I was going through it a few mins ago looking for pics of the centre bomb rack. I was even looking closely at that image. But I just had not took any notice of that bit. Now I will be looking for pics of it on the actual aircraft, but underside pics of a lot of aircraft are not that common.

With the exception of the bomb cradle, the delicate ends of the pitot and the propeller, construction is now complete. Those other bits will be added later. This has gone together really well since fitting the wings. I did need a little filler at the top of the spats, but that was it. I did have to cut open the canopy as that comes in one piece. It has a nice set of PE dive brakes.

Tomorrow I will give it a coat of primer just to check the sanding, especially on the wing roots, that it will be the paint job which looks like its going to be a lot of tricky masking.

Man that's a beefy set of wheel pants on that thing!

Ain't they just. You can see why they were re designed.

Nice work, my friend! Those spats sure are beefy as hell!

Here's an update on my progress.  Decals are complete and its ready for a second coat of future.  The decals didn't go on so good.  Some are fine, a few just kept wrinkling up.  I may have been a little heavy handed on the MicroSet.

I plan to try to cover up the botched decals with some weathering.  We'll see how that works out.

Note particularly the cross on the port wing bottom, both crosses on the top wings, and the "A"s on the spats.

I should have gone with a set of after market decals, but my plan was to duplicate my build of 30 years ago straight out of the box (for better or for worse).

Decal issues aside, that's a nice looking build there. And well done for sticky with your intentions of reproducing your original build.

We had a GB last year were those entering had to build there first every kit without any AM but just using the skills we had learnt over the years. that was a lot of fun doing that.

Looking forward to seeing your finished.

I think she looks pretty darn good Tom, I could see where those decals might silver a bit.

Nice job on the Stuka Tom! Man don't worry about the decals silvering too much as they are the OOB decals. I've had good AM decals that did that so at least you didn't spend good money on decals and had that happen . Good job man!

Thanks guys.

That's one advantage for being a bad photographer, it makes my builds look better. 

Can you add me in with the Revell 1/48th Ju-87D.

.................and there's Scott! Friggin cool!

Added Scott, welcome aboard.

Tom... no problems noted here... she looks good!

I got the underside painted RLM 65 yesterday and I have just done the top RLM 63. But with the masking I have to do I think it will be sat or Sun before its fully done. The base is drying and the figures are underway. So, in the meantime, I am going to make a start on the 144 G-2 kit. This should be interesting, it even comes with PE and mask's.

Change in model kits here. I Couldn't find any decals for the Ju-87D but I knew I had a set in the stash for the (GOD! I didn't think I will do another Airfix kit so soon after the Butcher bird build ) Yep it will be the Airfix Stuka.

A comparison shot of the Revell bird and the cockpit floor of the Airfix.

What I accomplished today... hoping to get started on painting the cockpit tomorrow.

The kit does have issues with sink marks....lots  of them including on the 50 kg bombs

Though one nice thing about the bird is...every thing is big which is helpful for these ol eyes of mine.

This is pretty much going to be an OOB build though I will probably order another Lufftwaffe seatbelt set from Ultracast, I was sold on those having put a set in the 190. More later....

Scott

Scott -- I will be watching this build with great interest! I remember reading in "Scale Aircraft Modelling" in the late 1970s a critic's choice/opinion piece in which he evaluated the kits if the day, and came down on this kit as the best/greatest plastic kit of all time, to that point. Forty years is a long time, of course, but it should still be an impressive bird, especially with the techniques that can be brought to bear!

Cheers, M/TB379

Got it changed Scott. Nice start, and that a nice looking kit. I would not have expected that of Airfix from a 40 year old kit.