Nice job on the Stuka Tom! Man don’t worry about the decals silvering too much as they are the OOB decals. I’ve had good AM decals that did that so at least you didn’t spend good money on decals and had that happen . Good job man!
Thanks guys.
That’s one advantage for being a bad photographer, it makes my builds look better. [:)]
Can you add me in with the Revell 1/48th Ju-87D.
…and there’s Scott! Friggin cool![Y]
Added Scott, welcome aboard.
Tom… no problems noted here… she looks good!
I got the underside painted RLM 65 yesterday and I have just done the top RLM 63. But with the masking I have to do I think it will be sat or Sun before its fully done. The base is drying and the figures are underway. So, in the meantime, I am going to make a start on the 144 G-2 kit. This should be interesting, it even comes with PE and mask’s.
Change in model kits here. I Couldn’t find any decals for the Ju-87D but I knew I had a set in the stash for the (GOD! I didn’t think I will do another Airfix kit so soon after the Butcher bird build [bnghead]) Yep it will be the Airfix Stuka.
Well unlike the FW, I have built one of these some 35 plus yrs ago while station at K-Bay HI, and I recall there were very liitle issue with that build.This one been in the stash since 94 and nothing appears to be warp so this kit shouldn’t be giving me the headaches or find it being tossed in the trash a couple times like the FW.
A comparison shot of the Revell bird and the cockpit floor of the Airfix.
What I accomplished today… hoping to get started on painting the cockpit tomorrow.
The kit does have issues with sink marks…lots of them including on the 50 kg bombs
Though one nice thing about the bird is…every thing is big which is helpful for these ol eyes of mine.
This is pretty much going to be an OOB build though I will probably order another Lufftwaffe seatbelt set from Ultracast, I was sold on those having put a set in the 190. More later…
Scott
Scott – I will be watching this build with great interest! I remember reading in “Scale Aircraft Modelling” in the late 1970s a critic’s choice/opinion piece in which he evaluated the kits if the day, and came down on this kit as the best/greatest plastic kit of all time, to that point. Forty years is a long time, of course, but it should still be an impressive bird, especially with the techniques that can be brought to bear!
Cheers, M/TB379
Got it changed Scott. Nice start, and that a nice looking kit. I would not have expected that of Airfix from a 40 year old kit.
First off , is that a 24th scale kit? Secondly are you going to rent a space from your local U-Haul to store it? lol
Looking good so far Scott. Lots of good detail here.
Well spotted Joe, I didn’t pick up on that. I assumed it was still a 48th kit.
Well, going to be looking forward even more to this one Scott. I have been thinking about getting one of these myself.
The Airfix Stuka is a pretty good looking kit for it’s age, lots of details in the cockpit and engine. Having over the years built about all the Airfix 1/24th birds, this one went together the best. I have a decals from CAM that I will be using and will probably do the N. African scheme.
That’s good news. A 24th Stuka is the only kit in that scale I would like to get. I have been in two minds about getting the Airfix B or wait for the Trump D. Of course, there would be an easier solution, get both.
I have looked at those decals, I have a bit of a thing for the yellow nose and tail myself. But that N African scheme looks nice.
Are you using any AM for it.
I’ve built a 24th scale 109 and that was fairly big , but a Stuka? How big is that thing?
I just compared my A to the 109 I built last year. length wise, the Stuka is a little longer, but its quite a but bigger in the wingspan. But its the height of the Stuka that always amazes me.
be nice to see a comparison when its completed.
Thought I would be painting the cockpit today but was working on many of the sub assemblies to get those out of the way and see if there would be any problems down the road, doesn’t look like it.
Some of what I got accomplished today, the Revell 1/48 Stuka is on the side for comparison.
I noticed what would appear to be cannon plugs on the engine firewall, I used a pin vise to drill out holes to add some wiring and plumbing. Oh oh! this is how I usually get behind time wise in completing group builds.[whstl]…
The instructions said for a standing model to cut away a portion of the MLG. There were guides inside the gear well indicating were to cut, with a razor saw it was a piece of cake.
And after surgery…
Some of the details on the fuselage interior walls. Would I be correct in that RLM 66 is the cockpit color?
The wing machine gun bay.
And a comparison pic with the Airfix 1/24th Fw-190 [cnsod].
So far this is going faster than when I did the FW which is break.
Scott
Nice work, and boy that thing is big.
Officially, for a B-2, the cockpit should be RLM 02. We had a discussion about this early in the thread, and there plenty of evidence to suggest that they were also painted 66.
Scott, thanks for the comparison pic with the 1/48th bird. I was curious too. That is big, and the detail looks very good. Should be fun for you to build, and fun to watch you.
I had a senior moment about the paint scheme. I do recall that in the early years of the war, RLM 02 was used as the cockpit color before it switched to RLM 66. I went with the 02 and started spray painting the office area, will finish up tomorrow night. I did the 190 using 66 and it was dark, with the 02 being lighter a lot of details jumps out at you. Shoot! the size of this I can mask off the various radio and instrument boxes and spray paint them.
More later…