Ju 87 Stuka GB

Hey Doug looking good man! Thats a Revellogawa kit you have there aint it? I had all sorts of fit issues up front where the windscreen panel and the lower piece attached to the fuselage. Glad to see yours fit good! Moving right along with this one buddy!!!

Looks great Doug. Moving along very quickly

Nice to see her one her legs Doug, looking good.

Alright my friends... Got alot done today, Its nice having "ME" time, although I do miss my sweetie... Any way, heres what I got done today.

Only two little spots shown in pictures that had small gaps, easily handlad by white out.

Well, theres a bit more but thats all I will post for now, as I said earlier, its really going together very will with no problems to speak of. More later... To all my friends here who celebrate... Have a Blessed Easter!

Take care...

Doug 

Thanks for the good words mikey and look forward to your return and building! Hope you enjoy the holidays and that goes for everybody here.

mikey, glad you getting all the help you need, that's one of the joy's of GB's. have a nice weekend, don't wear yourself out , remember to save some energy for the bench when you get back.

Doug, those exhausts are stunning. I have been looking at some Quickboost exhausts for the D, but there late ones are wrong. I might try and do this in 72nd scale. What size rod did you use.

Edit: never mind, just seen the later post.

Great looking exhaust Doug

Thanks for the good words all. I'm very impressed by all the builds thus far and appreciated all the helpful info as well. Just a quick note; I'll be staying at my girlfriend's place for Easter so no building or updates from me, but "work" will resume next week. For all those celebrating, enjoy!

Thanks Clemens... I was setting looking at the crappy ones supplied with the kit, and didnt want to have to order and wait, so I gave it a whirl and I think it came out OK...

Bob... Yeah that could be a problem, But these folks will without a doubt take care of your hobby needs, I think they're a supplier for many hobby shops. I took my LHS sticker off something I had bought and there was their name. They are good folks, atleast every time I've dealt with them...

Doug

Those exhausts look awesome indeed!

Those exhausts look pretty good Doug, and thanks about the tip for hobbylinc.com.  I didn't know about it and it's always nice to have other places to shop, especially when the closest LHS is over an hour away.

Well goodness, Thanks guys... Well, what seemed to be a good match for the scale (1/48) seemed to be the K&S 15037 .006 round brass tubing. The best place to find this (if not available at LHS) is  www.hobbylinc.com . They have nearly everything I've ever needed , fast shipping, and reasonable prices. I try to keep a varried selection on hand and they even had a 1mm size I needed one time(very small tubing!) Any way, I played around abit till I got the right length, and bent over a 1/8 dia drill bit, not quite 90 deg, which tends to flatten the body while leaving the outlet round. It can be cut with a razor saw blade, but I used a Dremmel cut off disc. taking a pair of micro needle nose pliers, squeeze the outlet abit to make oval shaped, use a micro file to clean out the burrs and check out fit. If satisfied, i squeeze the end to be glued a bit more to flair it out some more which makes it a nice snug fit in the exhaust slot in the cowling, apply a drop of CA and repeat until all are installed. Simple, right? LOL... But to me it come out like I wanted and I like the look.

Thanks again, and I hope that helped!

Doug

Doug I'm with Nathan, what did you use on those exhausts?? Those look great

Reasoned: I'm looking forward to building with you in here. Let me know if you change your mind about those radios. Those cockpits in those kits are really bare.

Doug, what did you use to shape those exhaust? They look very convincing.

Reasoned- Welcome aboard. This should be a cake walk compared to your B-36 huh?

Thanks Joe, Radio?  Since when did a Stuka pilot need a radio?  I'm going to probably build this bad boy OTB, not having done any research yet, it should be fun.

Doug those exhausts look fantastic!  Great scratch work, looking forward to seeing more.

Hey all!... I was able to get some more done today... I decided to try my hand at making exhaust dumps, The ones supplied with the kit (like most) look like crap, so I figured I couldnt loose anything by trying...

I took some brass tubing, experaminted a bit with the length and the bend, pinched the outlet to flatten it somewhat, and CAed them in at even spacing. After that All I have to do is to clean up the holes abit and I think they will look loads better then the supplied ones, Also found a leftover PE screen piece that fit perfectly in the oil coller vent hole. All in all so far I'm happy with the way its going. More to follow!

Take care all!!!

Doug 

Hey Reasoned. It's great to see you in here and welcome aboard! If you need radios for that Revell Stuka lemme know. I  have one more extra set from my Hasegawa extras. As  I remember the Revell kits do not have those.

Mikey: Those gaps look to be pretty damn nasty ones... I'm sure you can get them under control though! You picked one hell of a color scheme BTW!

Yep

Nice to have you on board, I take it that's 48th scale.

Oh, okay Bish, put me down for the Revellogram Ju 87D.  Always wanted to build the Stuka.

I wouldn't worry about it either mikey. A person can run themselves ragged over the "correct" details I have found. Your scheme looks killer BTW.

mikey, if you have seen the same aircraft with drop tanks, then it is indeed an R. There's no way to tell and R from a B when its carrying bombs and I would wager many aircraft labelled as B's may well be R's. So I wouldn't worry to much.

Yes it is Nathan and I dread having to get it smooth enough for paint but it's all part of the build. I found the pics I think you had before and am going with the red tipped machine. It shows it bombed up on the wings but I also saw it with tanks listed as an R model. That's conflicting with what I had previously thought and saw on the instructions along with the wide yellow band which I really dislike. I want to include fuel tanks as opposed to bombs so may take artistic license given the pics I've seen.

Wow, thats a fair amount of putty. I'm gonna have those same issues on my wing trailing edges too. Good work so far Mikey.

Looks like you have got to grips with that gap. Certainly coming along quickly. I hate the sanding bit, good luck with that.

Dude! You're moving right along with this one!! Can't wait to see more progress MM!!

A couple pics of my project. As I mentioned in another post, there was a pretty bad gap along the trailing edge of the wing just forward of the flaperons as well as wing to fuselage join.The pictures speak for themselves; they're definitely ugly and in need of help.Cleanup with denatured alcohol and then the sanding fun starts!

You got that right my friend!