mustang1989 Posted August 17, 2014 Posted August 17, 2014 (edited) Just finished this one up after a long few months. I started with a 1/48 Hasegawa Ju-87 B-2 Stuka kit and added an Aires interiror detail set, oil reservoir and wing mounted machine gun guts from a Verlinden update set,Eduard canopy mask and decals from Tally Ho. I've been wanting to build an aircraft with this scheme now for 18 years and have had this kit for 16 years. I guess after all this time it was finally high time I started on it but I'm glad I didn't because I haven't had the skills to pull this all together until the last two years. Originally I was going to open up the engine bay because I do have an Aires total upgrade kit to do that with but decided against it because it would interupt such a cool scheme. I mean how many aircraft do you see runnin' around with a snake that goes from one end of the bird to the other? All in all I had a complete blast building this kit as I took my sweet time with it as to not have any foul ups. The cockpit had to be the most fun I had with it. The Aires floor didn't fit right and was WAY too small so I modified the Hasegawa floor and transferred all of the floor detail from the Aires floor to the Hasegawa floor. Other than that it was pretty straight forward: Â Â As for the rest of the build it was a chore and time consuming with the paint job but in the end it was worth the investment. I began with priming and pre-shading the whole bird, then I continued with the original splinter camoflage scheme of light green RLM 71, dark green RLM 70 and light blue RLM 76 (which I later could have slapped myself because it's supposed to be a brighter blue RLM 65 but it was too late in the game to ruin the work that I poured into it to change it). After that I painted on the field applied camoflage in the form of tan RLM 79 over the original camo. Absolutely NO foul ups here! I moved VERY slowly with this due to the work that went into the original splinter camo pattern. I have had a set of snake decals since the beginning(16 years ago) from Cutting Edge but they were too old to use and kept breaking up so I had to replace them with a set from Tally Ho. These decals evoked a range of feelings here because on one hand they laid down totally awesome and sucked right into the detail but were slightly out of scale. All in all I was happy with their application. LOTS of sweating while putting them on though.......................LOTS!!! Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Edited October 14, 2015 by mustang1989
Mike Kucaba Posted August 17, 2014 Posted August 17, 2014 GASP!! AND IN SUCH A TINY SCALE!! Great Work
mustang1989 Posted August 17, 2014 Author Posted August 17, 2014 Thanks Mike! I usually stick to 1/48 scale builds just due to display space.........or lack of it. lol
mustang1989 Posted August 18, 2014 Author Posted August 18, 2014 Thanks Jim and John. I'm going to bust out with my Bandai 1/48 scale BMW R75 w/side car motorcycle next and see if I can pull that one off.
Harry P. Posted August 18, 2014 Posted August 18, 2014 Wow! Amazing! The detail is fantastic. Absolutely beautiful model. (and really nice photos too!)
mustang1989 Posted August 18, 2014 Author Posted August 18, 2014 Thank you Ira and Harry! That's the largest pit I've done yet. Most of em are fighter aircraft and really small so this was a fun stray from the norm.
DynoMight Posted August 19, 2014 Posted August 19, 2014 Great job on the Stuka! When the Stuka would dive to drop its bombs, the air brakes made a whistling noise that some people called "the whistle of death".. The German plane builders made the coolest planes from WW2...
mustang1989 Posted August 19, 2014 Author Posted August 19, 2014 Thanks Glenn!!! There was a loud screaming/ siren noise that wasusually came from that little propeller you see there on the left wing on the landing gear spat. Alot of pilots elected to remove them because they were so dang noisy and were called the "Trumpets of Jericho". Youre right though, a god awful noise when diving. Fear factor played as much of a role as the bombing itself with the sirens on these things. I have built alot of aircraft from WWII and like them all but I have a soft spot for the Luftwaffe's airframes as they had some really cool looking birds and narly camo schemes.
Mister 4x4 Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Oh man, this is just insane! Very nice!! I'll be looking back to these builds of yours when I crack open a WWII fighter kit, that's for sure.
mustang1989 Posted January 5, 2015 Author Posted January 5, 2015 Thanks Eric!! Lemme know when you tackle a Luftwaffe build. I've got plenty of reference material.
Mr mopar Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 nice work, easily my favorite Plane of world war 2........... it might be slow but in a power dive super fast!
atomicholiday Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 Oh, so that's how it's done! Great workmanship Joe. I love that snake decal. Must have scared the heck out of the enemy!
mustang1989 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Posted January 12, 2015 Thanks Doug and Jeremy! There were two different snake motif's applied on these birds and the color has been a mystery. Some say it's red and others say tan. I personally think the red is a more "in your face" and sinister look but the tan looks evil as well. The only known documented pics I can find out of my references(and I think the only ones that are available): A drawing of the tan setup: and my decal sheet with the red setup:
Roadrunner Posted January 16, 2015 Posted January 16, 2015 Thanks Glenn!!! There was a loud screaming/ siren noise that wasusually came from that little propeller you see there on the left wing on the landing gear spat. Alot of pilots elected to remove them because they were so dang noisy and were called the "Trumpets of Jericho". Youre right though, a god awful noise when diving. Fear factor played as much of a role as the bombing itself with the sirens on these things. I have built alot of aircraft from WWII and like them all but I have a soft spot for the Luftwaffe's airframes as they had some really cool looking birds and narly camo schemes. A lot of the bombs were fitted with whistles for the same purpose. I have lots of photos, should you ever need any.
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 16, 2015 Posted January 16, 2015 Beautiful model. I love seeing warbirds built. but for some reason rarely frequent the aircraft boards. You're re-kindling an interest I've had for a very long time.
mustang1989 Posted January 23, 2015 Author Posted January 23, 2015 Thanks Bill. Will PM you later man.
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