Ju 87 Stuka GB

Thanks gents for the nice words.

Shooter

The masking with silly putty is really easy and takes care of complicated outlines. The trick is to keep it thin specially  on the fuselage sides where it can droop down and to shoot the paint as soon as you mask to keep the desired shapes and remove right after painting just in case it creeps into the painted area.

plasticjunkie

Next will be Future and decals courtesy of Mustang. He was very generous in giving me some spare snakes he had. The RLM 79 pattern is a bit different on mine since this will be Yellow D and Mustang did Yellow C.

She's looking good there! Putting on that 3-tone splinter pattern can be a bear. I bought Silly Putty but having never used it for masking I chicken out and went with tape and liquid mask.   I went with leaving the areas for the RLM-79 unpainted and adding it last. If I were to do it again, I think I will paint the entire upper fuselage/wings with the 2-tone then hit it with the 79. I just sprayed on the Pledge on the upper side of the bird, will get the bottom done maybe tomorrow if the Badger air brush don't give out on me. Can't wait to start slapping on decals.

Scott

I really like the camo too, PJ. Nicely done so far.

I'm starting with mine (first splinter attempt) and can appreciate the uggghhh factor of a third color.

That provides a nice and interesting variation in camouflage, pj!  I like the look of it.  Well done!

Really nice there PJ. The more I see that desert colour over the splinter, the more I like it. Its one thing seeing it in profile drawings or B&W photo's, but much better seeing it like this.

Thanks check. Can't imagine doing that masking in 1/72 scale.

I forgot to take pictures of the silly putty masking  but this is how she came out.

Next will be Future and decals courtesy of Mustang. He was very generous in giving me some spare snakes he had. The RLM 79 pattern is a bit different on mine since this will be Yellow D and Mustang did Yellow C.

Very successful work with the splinter, pj.  It is challenging to accomplish.

Thanks GAF. The first color I shot was the 65 underside which I have to go back and tough up in a couple of spots.

Thank you gentlemen for the kind words on my Hobby Craft Stuka.

Plasticjunkie>  I haven't forgotten the splinter masking, which is why after spraying the base light green on the aircraft, I finally just ran some tape and did the dark green by hand.  Such a pain. 

Yours looks great so far.

I had forgotten what a PITA the splinter masking is. Shot the 70 and 71 on and removed the masks. The RLM 79 is next.

GAF... Nice! Very clean looking build, good splinter, weathering, markings!

Doug

GAF, that's a nice looking Stuka.

Good for you getting it done on time.

Nice results, GAF!  Good looking spinner.

Gaf

Nice flying tank buster!

Good to see you back GAF. Nice job on the G, great to see it finished. Nice work. I'll add a pic to the front page.

Hello, all!

I haven't been around for awhile, and didn't know Bish had extended the JU-87 GB until last month.
Since he did, I figured I might as well finish up my Stuka build.  Here's the completed Hobby Craft JU-87 G Stuka (modified into a more correct G2 version), and sorry for not supplying more progress posts after the last one in September.  

Hope everyone is well, and thanks to Bish for running this Group Build!

Not much to report. The first color (RLM 71) was sprayed late this afternoon and will tape it up tomorrow  for the second color (RLM 70).Then the third color will follow (RLM 79). I will post something then.

Thanks for the comments, Bish, Archangel and mustang--very kind of you all.

AS:  It seems that Airfix has improved the quality of their kit decals.  I personally haven't had any issues with them lately.  With Microset and Microsol, they seem to settle down and conform pretty well to surface detail--although sometimes they have to be pressed down manually.

With all the rivets covering this Stuka, I am wondering how well the decals will work settling over them.  I added a thin black pin wash yesterday; today I was planning on adding another clear coat, then on to the decals--so I should find out soon.

As for the camouflage scheme, when I was surfing around the net looking for photos, it seems that sometimes the 65 colour came up farther on the sides of that scoop-thing under the nose.  Other than that, there wasn't much difference in the pattern.

tempestjohnny

Bish

There is one thing Stuka's don't have and that's a huge variety of schemes.

what do you mean. There's 70,71,65 then 71,65,70 and 65,70,71

Bish

There is one thing Stuka's don't have and that's a huge variety of schemes.

what do you mean. There's 70,71,65 then 71,65,70 and 65,70,71

Looks great so far CMK!!! 72nd scale....................you guys rock with that stuff!

There is one thing Stuka's don't have and that's a huge variety of schemes.

Good looking paint job there CMate. Ahhh those Airfix kits, love them or leave them. One of the issues I've always had with their 1/48 kits at least some of the earlier kits, were the decals not settling down and curling up. Airfix customer service was excellent and were always quick to send out a replacement set but sometimes even those would still not lay down.

Following the builds of other modelers here I have noticed that the paint scheme pattern is pretty much the same for all the Stuka's wearing the RLM 70 and 71 colors. Mine is identical with the exception of the sand yellow painted over the other colors.    This evening I was doing some more paint touch up with the RLM 70 and put a first coat on the bombs.  Drilled out a hole in the bottom of the antenna mask so to later run a wire from the mask to the radios.   Having issues with painting the white stripe on the spinner so I may opt with using a decal for that. Almost ready to spray on the Future. Now getting anxious to start slapping on decals.

Looks good check.

Thanks, TJ, Pj and Greg!  There's still a ways to go!  

CMK, oh no, you're going to finish your recovery build before mine, which I've been working on for, uh, about a year? How embarrassing. (cough cough, ahem)

I really like your idea of using a protractor on the fuselage halves before joining to square the horizontal stabilizers!

Great progress CMate. The paint looks great. I got tired of PB and dumped it for many reasons, mainly suspecting it of loading tons of malware into my PC.

Nice recovery

Seems Photobucket has settled down now, so:

pieces for the wing--

once assembled, there is an astonishingly huge trench left all along the wing length.  I'm not sure how I'd fill it and sand it without also destroying all the fine rivets Airfix  affixed to the wings; so I'm just going to leave it, and see if a wash will make it look like it ought to be there, even though we know it isn't.

The prop assembly

Major components prepared to join up

Things assembled.  The prop is supposed to be installed, then the engine cover put into place.  Of course, after this photo, while masking, I managed to knock the prop off--so I have to do a little surgery and implanting to put it back from the outside.

And camouflage painting finished!

I used MM's RLM 65, 70 and 71.  My, there's a lot of rivets in the wings!

It's a relief to get things this far!

Great looking Stukas being produced.  All very impressive!

I've been working on Plan B Stuka since the mishap with the first one.  This is the 1/72 Airfix offering.  As you can tell by the 70th Anniversary Battle of Britain sticker, it's been around for a while.

There were a number of ejector pin marks inside the fuselage, which I removed with some tedious sanding.

Then I used a protractor to glue the horizontal tale surfaces in position from the inside.  It makes for a stronger bond I think--but I still managed to knock the port side stabilizer loose later on.  Fortunately it was reparable, but I was worried that I might be destroying more Stukas than the RAF did.

The cockpit pieces are kind of clunky and bland.

Here they are painted, installed and the fuselage closed up.

That's all for now; Photobucket is acting up a little.  I have progressed to the painting stage, but I'll have to post those pictures later.  Better not to bore you all anyway!