Dirk - I will make the windows with the Krystal Klear after everything has been painted. I use a round toothpich and dip it in the bottle to get about a BB size blop or smaller and will coat the window frames in a slow circular motion and work towards the center. When the frame is completly white that is what you want. Let it dry, if too many bubbles appear redo it and work slower. As with anything practice and practice to get the hang of it.
Dirk,
Very nice work - especially the detail added to the interior. Evergreen styrene is our friend ! It’s pretty amazing what just a little work will do to make the interior more interesting. Keep it up…
Chris
Thanks for the kind words, Chris
I know its been awhile and I don’t have a lot to show but it’s a nice little detail I’ve yet to see anyplace else. My thread was seen buy a gentleman who restores WWII aircraft for a museum in Norway. What he pointed out to me was that the propellers on the JU52 were painted dark green not black on military aircraft.
As you can see in this first picture of a recently restored JU52.
The next detail was the marking on the back of the propellers. The two outside props had the back of the blade tips painted white. The center prop did NOT have the white tips but a white line low on the blade close to the hub. According to some JU52 pilots (Olaf Trapp and Willy Schadock ) that use to fly these crates during the war… it was for the pilot to see if the engines were running at equal rpm and synchronized. The center prop mark was placed low on the blades as to not obscure the pilots view during flight.
Wing props
Center prop
Here you can see the center prop marking on a prop as it was when pulled from a JU52 retrieved from the bottom of a lake back in the (I believe) 80s.
Now here it all together on my corrugated coffin
Before
After
I also took some time to re-do the hubs which I had originally had painted aluminum
Since I had the white out I decided that this would be a good time to paint the stripe on the back end of the fuselage.
Well that’s it for now. Thanks for taking time to look. I’ll leave you with one more photo. It appears to be a a B-25 dropping a “Deuce” on a couple JU52’s.
Dirk, great job your doing on one of my favourites. Who cant like a plane made from corrugated iron. Great work on the engines and props.
…Guy