Never seen that one before Bish, SWEET!
That is one cool scheme. Excellent work, Bish.
Great work Bish! I’ve never seen a scheme like that. Did you say earlier that it was a pre-war scheme?
Thnaks guys. I know what you all mean about this scheme.
Bob, yes, this particular aircraft is from 1938. The more familiar 70/71 scheme started to come into use in 1937, but there were some aircraft still carrying this scheme during the Polish campaign.
Hi folks
A small update after quite some time.I managed to lose my camera somehow so I apologize for the cell phone pictures. I will make this up ASAP.
After a lot of sanding, filling, smoothing and similar boring procedures, main wings, fuselage and tail joints were left to cool off.
Then the engine compartment was given a little attention. My initial goal was to have all cowling closed so that I and everybody else could enjoy the lovely aerodynamic ugliness of this bird.
After (again) A LOT of dry fittings, the cowlings various parts to fuselage fit and overall alignment was proven to be [8o|][bnghead]. I simply regard it as unacceptable!
Considering the options (even making a crashed stuka diorama with the front section badly shaken and ripped up) I decided to simply display the engine in full view.
Engine parts were assembled, painted, etc. Italeri’s solution with the rubber hose simply sucks and please do not cut the various sections of piping in the dimensions of the instruction sheet, they are simply given randomly.
Another technical issue was that, with the cowlings open, where in the [6] will someone attach the bomb trapeze (part 32 of the sheet, see photo).
Having no photo reference from this specific point of trapeze suspension, I simply used some imagination and common technical sense and added 2 attachment points from styrene sheet and L- shape. If I were to fly the plane, I would trust this would work…
The firewall was enhanced with some tubing and cabling and a fist coat of paint was applied.
Finally wheels and undercarriage were assembled.
I will try to speed up this build now that (hopefully) the tricky parts are almost over.
Cheers
Kostas
Looking nice there Kostas, the engine is looking good.
I took these yesterday as well but for some reason they would not post. This is the Eduard 144th 87G-2. As you can see, there’s no cockpit. That’s such a shame as I was really looking forward to 144 seat belts and instruments.
After taking these I got the underside painted RLM 65, so just need to mask up and start painting the top colours.
Looking good, Kostas!
Bish, I can’t figure out if you are tongue-in-cheek regarding the 144th instrumentation and seatbelts …or not.
Looks like no detail spared on that Eduard kit. Looking fwd to watching this one.
Engine looks good Kostas! I agree with Greg, there’s a lot of surface detail on there Bish
Yes Kostas the engine is looking good and not familiar w/that kit and the bomb trapeze setup. In building the Mono version it just glues in place. Of douse, it’s been so damn long since I’ve had the energy or will to get at the bench. Besides, that wonderful greenhouse canopy has me REALLY considering buying a mask (even though they don’t make them for the Mono bird)!
[:D] Don’t worry Greg, I ain’t that much of a lunatic. I think I would need the Hubble telescope to be able to detail that cockpit.
Glad you clarified that, Bish. I should have known, I suppose, but having never dabbled in the smaller scales (that I recall, anyway), had no point of reference to determine if you were kidding or not. [:)]
And that compounded by the fact that some of the outstanding 1/72nd (and smaller) work I’ve seen around these parts amazes me. IOW, I’m about to the point nothing would surprise me!
Looking Good Bish… Im Still Amazed At The Work You Can Do On A 72nd…
Yeah, and this time he one ups THAT by doing a 1/144 build! Somewhere down the line I look to see a 1/350 scale Stuka out of him! lol
1/350 scale, o no no no.
Though I believe revell once did a 720 kit of the carrier Graf Zeppelin, that must have some Stuka’s in it.[I]
And there you have it folks! He’s lost it! [:D]
Well guys I’m finally past a part of this build that’s been holding me up forever it seems like. I finally installed the “Tyson chicken legs” yesterday. I may have been a little overly concerned with this part but it just seems like a visible seam line here would be like a bloody nose since its right up front to be easily seen. Any ways, here goes:
and the whole view:
I’m now building the bombs and don’t have ANY reference material on german ordnance. What color are the centerline and wing bombs supposed to be? It says flat black on the instruction sheet but I have my reservations about that…
saying I have lost it suggests that I had it in the first place.
For SC 50’s, they should be green, I would go for RLM 70. For the SC 500, a lot of what I have read says blue, RLM 65, but most if not all of the pics I have seen they are green. Anything bigger, SC 1000, is blue.
O ye, and that Stuka looks well nice. Apart from the fact you just had me checking my wheel spats.
Awesome work Joe! She looks ready to fly off my screen!