Hope everyone had a good week! I got quite a bit of work done Friday and yesterday on the 1/72 Fujimi Stuka build. The fit has been good though I did have to add just a sliver of strip plastic to fill a gap where the upper wing surfaces met the fuselage. I have now added, in addition to the interior details, an oil cooler inside of the aft bottom of the cowling, the small splitter plate in the nose induction air cooler/oil cooler air intake, (its white and glows in the photo!), and have re-scribed the belly area. I also cut out the landing light location and added a light bulb from scrap plastic and fashioned a lens from clear styrene. The molded on and entirely inaccurate flap and aileron actuators have been carefully removed and holes drilled in the wings for the actuator rods. The rods and their attachment arms on the flaps and ailerons will be added during the painting phase. I also drilled out the fairings for the MG17 wing guns and will add the barrels later. My plane, operating in Russia, should have the siren propellors but Fujimi does not supply them! I robbed a set from a Italeri Ju-87B kit and will install them on this one.
Mate,
If it ends up looking as good as the Fw-190 in your sig pic, you should be very happy with yerself.
Looks great so far - keep us posted in the progress…
looks good so far, and the other model looks great. any tips on paint schemes/colors for luftwaffe planes? im trying to mod a Ju 87B into a Ju 87C to use in a forced prospective with the german aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. i thought someone mentioned gray colors would be ideal for planes that operate over the sea. does this sound right? any help would be great. keep up the great work, i cant wait to see it all the way done.
I’m not aware Blackwolf, of any Ju 87C sea schemes in gray though had it gone into production and the carrier built, its possible. The Luftwaffe typically used RLM 72 and RLM 73 for maritime a/c top surfaces but I don’t recall ever seing a Ju 87 in that scheme. These are both dark gray green colors are difficult to even recognize as two colors in many black and white photos of the period.
Hope that helps…I am on the road or I would look through some reference material for you.
Coming along nicely, ninedriver !
The actuator rods make a BIG difference with a Ju 87. They came in a PE set I used on a Hasegawa 1/48 Stuka to replace solid triangles of plastic.
It has pictures of Stukas and camouflage schemes.
Also, there is a book called Stuka Pilot(published by Bantam Books), written by - I am not sure of his first names - Hans Ulrich Rudel, a german Stuka ace, in which he tells of his experiences as a Stuka pilot in Russia in WW2. It was good reading, and it adds a very interesting background for modeling and history enthousiasts.
Thanks very much Harbormaster, djmodels1999! I’m glad you fellas enjoyed it. More work has been done and I hope to begin painting very soon. I’ll be posting another update on it then.
