Ju 87 Stuka GB

Thank you Nathan!  And I will add yours is awesome!  Love the camo on your build!  It rocks!

And the chipping of the paint!  I use the old dry brush the chrome silver.  How do you do yours?

Eagle90

tempestjohnny

Eagle like that red. Really stands out.  Fine work.  John

Thank you sir!  It was a great kit to do.

Eagle90

TempestJ, great start on your Stuka.  Never too late when it comes to Stukas!

Eagle90

Really great work, Nathan. Nice finish and scheme. Congrats.

Thanks Doug, Raven and Tom. I'm glad that the scheme turned out.

Thanks for the info Nathan.

Nice to see it coming together Johnny, and you won't be disappointed with the Academy kit.

Eagle, I use EZ line or a really fine fishing line for mine, but yours doesn't seem overly thick to me.

Nathan -- outstanding work! It really looks the part, the overall effect is tight and balanced, and I know how much guts it takes to lay down a scheme like that, not to mention skill with the AB!

cheers, M/TB379

Great looking mottling Nathan. Love that scheme on the Stuka.

Nathan, that is just beautiful.

I mentioned before that camo pattern had me drooling a little, still am. Even looks better finished and weathered. Outstanding work, my friend. All the work you put into this Stuka, there's a lot more to it than just the paint job, but..... it sure as heck does stand out.

Johny, no worries, right there with you.

Mike, PJ and Greg, thanks a bunch. Greg, hope you get your Italeri kit all wrapped up soon. In the end I am satisfied with the kit.

Dude that camo came out great on your Stuka Nathan! One of these days when I get a little more confident with my AB I'll tackle something like this. Until then I'll just sit back and admire jobs like these. lol

Thanks Joe. Never know what you can do with the airbrush until you try.

I have a little bit better of one now so maybe I will. Thanks for the encouragement brother Nathan!

Sorry for being so long between postings, other commitments keeps popping up and now that the holidays are over I'm attempting to finish this bird. Also having issues with my 2 laptops, the new one won't upload pics to Photoshop while the other one does but it's sooooooo slow to do anything with it. Ready to toss both of them out but after some 2 hrs of fussing with them I got a few updated pics to post. If nothing crashes again.

Will add some finishing touches to the firewall after I'm done painting the fuselage.

Applied the RLM-71

Now the RLM-70. Due to the size of the kit, I been painting her in sections.

The irregular look will soon be covered with the sand yellow.Since I couldn't find a Italian sand yellow I opted to use RLM-79.  I will mask off the canopy sections and paint those as I go back over the fuselage doing touch ups.

I did glued the engine to the mounts which was a piece of cake and like how it came out.

Even the gearbox oil cap is still in view.

I started painting the RLM-79 on the engine cowling first, will apply it nose to tail. I only attached the bottom and upper cowling to see how it fits. Might have a little issue with the side panels but my plans are to leave them off anyways.

Well let me get this posted before I lose it all again like forgetting to add the last pic here. I  hope to have more pics come Weds.

Scott

Beautiful job! Really outstanding!!!

Doug

That's looking amazing Scott. Having now got the kit, I don't blame you for painting in sections. What have you used for the wiring on the bulkhead.

Ok, time to do some catch-up!

Bish: That little bugger you got there is really stunning! And I was thinking 1/72 is way too small already!

Eagle: Some great work on your Stuka as well!

Nathan: I can't praise your Stuka enough! The camo and weathering are both awe-inspiring!

John: You're not alone. I'm still detail painting that Aires office for my build...

Scott: That huge bird of yours keeps looking more impressive each update!

Eagle90

Thank you Nathan!  And I will add yours is awesome!  Love the camo on your build!  It rocks!

And the chipping of the paint!  I use the old dry brush the chrome silver.  How do you do yours?

Eagle90

A very sharp silver Prismacolor pencil. When I'm done I flat coat it to help blend in the chips. Some areas were chipped with dark gray so they wouldn't stand out as much. 

Scott: You have some great scratch building skills there. I really like the radiator pipes and clamps, and the metallic areas on the engine stand out nicely. 

SchattenSpartan

Ok, time to do some catch-up!

Bish: That little bugger you got there is really stunning! And I was thinking 1/72 is way too small already!

Eagle: Some great work on your Stuka as well!

Nathan: I can't praise your Stuka enough! The camo and weathering are both awe-inspiring!

John: You're not alone. I'm still detail painting that Aires office for my build...

Scott: That huge bird of yours keeps looking more impressive each update!

Thank you SS.  Still have 2 more in the stash to do!

Eagle90

Nathan T

Eagle90

Thank you Nathan!  And I will add yours is awesome!  Love the camo on your build!  It rocks!

And the chipping of the paint!  I use the old dry brush the chrome silver.  How do you do yours?

Eagle90

A very sharp silver Prismacolor pencil. When I'm done I flat coat it to help blend in the chips. Some areas were chipped with dark gray so they wouldn't stand out as much. 

Scott: You have some great scratch building skills there. I really like the radiator pipes and clamps, and the metallic areas on the engine stand out nicely. 

Hey Nathan,

I have heard so much about those pencils.  I have a couple of silver Sharpie's, but haven't been brave enough to try them.  I htink next time I'm at A.C. Moore, I'll pick one or 2 of those pencils up.  Thanks!

Eagle90

Nathan T

Mike, PJ and Greg, thanks a bunch. Greg, hope you get your Italeri kit all wrapped up soon. In the end I am satisfied with the kit.

Nathan, I've been my own worst enemy re the Italeri kit. Not sure what my problem is but I'm having trouble thinking ahead. The kit is a bit odd to me, and strangely I was more comfortable with my first Eduard build last year then this thing. I'll get settled down soon though, I hope. Thanks for your encouragement.

Scott, that is some awe-inspriing work on that Stuka, mate! Though my powerplant will be nothing compared to yours, thank you for some guidance on what things might look like, really helpful to me.

Will you be doing an engine cowl-open, since you did all that lovely detail work? If so, I can't wait to see how it is supposed to be configured when open.

I've used a silver Sharpie with mixed results - if the detail is raised enough it works great, but if the detail is more shallow, the ink tends to run into the recesses similar to paint.

Greg, that's been my problem as well with my Italeri kit; too much gung-ho and not enough planning and foresight.

Bish...for the wiring I used an old extension cord, cut it up and twist the wiring to my liking. I also use various sizes of those small spools of floral wiring along with a larger diameter flexible wiring found in the jewelery section of Michael's craft stores.

In the past I have built the 1/24th Airfix kits of the ME-109, FW-190. Hurricane, Spitfire and the Mustang but none of them went together as well as the Stuka. It is a fun build and for those who have better detailing skills than I have can do amazing to it.

Greg...I'm looking at leaving the cowl panels off, be a pity to cover the engine. Only issues I'm having is with my Badger 100 AB, think it's time to find a new needle for it.

Thanks. I like the look of that. I am planning on getting the airscale IP and possibly their bezels and cockpit details. But after doing a lt of scratching on an He 111Z and an 88mm gun I have gotten a bit of a bug for it, so when I get to mine I will certainly be seeing what else I can do. that wiring will defiantly be on the list.

Raven728

I've used a silver Sharpie with mixed results - if the detail is raised enough it works great, but if the detail is more shallow, the ink tends to run into the recesses similar to paint.

Greg, that's been my problem as well with my Italeri kit; too much gung-ho and not enough planning and foresight.

Thanks Raven, that's good to know!  Will be sure to check that when I use it.

Eagle90

Bish, did I read that if you hadn't started by the end date the build wouldn't count?

Lewbud, yes, but the end date is now the end of March.

Did a little more work on the Stuka.  Bish you were so right about the difference in the cannon on the academy kit. Many thanks for the parts

Johny, good to see more progress.

Everyone, tonight I rescribed some wing panel lines and gave a first go a rivets after my most aggresive wing root blend attempt to date:

I post this not because I think I did a good job, but because after I finished I felt like I'd just completed some strange rite of passage. A little more indoctrinated to the insanity here that I love so much.

(I see I missed some work at the leading and trailing edges)

Nice sanding work Greg. Right of passage indeed. If you can, rescribe the oval panel a bit more. Everything else looks nicely restored. What did you use to make the rivets?

Clemens, thanks for the good words of praise. I hope we get to see a Stuka from you yet...and not only because you're in my Kette!