Bucker Jungmann - 1/72

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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I managed to complete a 1/72 Bucker Jungmann whose diminutive size is disproportionate to the amount of effort and patience taxed. I built it for a teacher, it is modeled after an aircraft he owned and for which he provided me photographs. The flying wires are .15 fishing line and decals are a mixed bag, registration pieced together from an XTRADECAL set of numbers/letters and the roundels from an AM set for an O-1 Birddog; I don’t care for their colors but my options were limited. The roundels were especially challenging to source, a set for a 1/72 Polikarapov I-16 was too large! The picture with the 1/72 Mustang for the My First Time GB in the background provides an idea of how small a Jungmann is.

Another project that has stalled though is the F9F, the AM decals I had disintegrated upon submerging in water so she will collect dust until I can find another set.

2

That is looking good. Judging from the marking it is one of those CASA build Jungmann’s. What brand kit did you use?

3

Very nice! I agree that the smaller scales take a lot of time, especially on things like biplanes and such where you have rigging, struts and such. Small scale is not for wimps.

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When he purchased it many years ago it had just been through it’s maintenance cycle and freshly withdrawn from Spanish service, being crated and shipped to the states and arriving as if it were a brand new airplane. He was able to keep the foreign registration because a buddy was licensed as a mechanic in the UK so could do all the services.

This was a Huma kit, and had all the challenges inherent with a short run model.