Hasegawa 1/32 Junkers JU87D STUKA

[Guest]

vaughan it looks really good my man

mobear

[stona]

Thanks LaurieI would give it a go with the home made seat belts as you say the P.E ones too stiff and take a lot of manipulation to make them look realistic.

Vaughan

I agree with you both about PE belts. You can just about make them look right in an empty cockpit but they really don't fit over a pilot as I like them to do from time to time.

I use the paper ones with PE buckles etc from RB Productions in 1/32. I don't think they are too expensive on a model that might have cost £40-£60 already and they look very good. I've always struggled to get the metalwork to look right on home made ones but then I struggle with a lot of things

That Stuka is really coming along and starting to look mighty impressive.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

That's looking really good Vaughan! Who needs expensive PE seatbelts when yours are that good? I'm looking forward to seeing this one progress.

Patrick

[Vaughan]

Hi all

Here's yesterdays progress. I have finally finished gluing the fuselage using plastic weld this seems to have worked ok although the seams still required a smear of plastic putty. The wings are now complete with the addition of the wing tips, they are the short ones as I'm doing the trop version, they also required plastic putty. To be honest and this is my first Hasegawa kit I'm not overly impressed with the fit. when I came to fit the wings to the fuselage there is a step at the rear where the two meet. The Revell Arado that I finished a couple of weeks ago and at half the price of the Stuka had a far better fit. I don't know if this an old tooling which might account for this. Anyway the wheel spats are together and have been sprayed RLM 70 and then masked and the gaiters have had a coat of black. The forward section of the fuselage has had the splinter pattern added also in RLM 70. The main bomb is together and sprayed. I'm still considering buying some canopy masks unless I can come up with a better Idea.

Vaughan

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[Guest]

:flattered:

dont know what to say... smiley shows all

Roman

[Guest]

Some nice clean painting there Vaughan, you're getting a great finish on the nose section.

Patrick

[Vaughan]

I've made a start on the masking of the canopy. I found an image of the eduard mask and printed it. I used this as an overlay over the masking tape and cut it out using a sharp scalpel blade. They came out slightly larger than I needed so I trimmed them to reduce the size but this still gave me the correct angles.

Vaughan

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[Guest]

Your painting skills are amazing!

[Vaughan]

Well many hours later I have finished the masking. In the end I resorted to the thin strips of tape and then fill in the gaps as the templates became too tricky.

Vaughan

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[tr1ckey66]

Hi Vaughan

That's some great work on the Stuka and so soon after the Arado!

I've used the same trick on canopy masks. You can also take rubbings of old masks.

Looks great so far looking forward to another great build.

All the best

Paul

[Guest]

Nice mask work Vaughan!

[Vaughan]

Thanks for that Trey. I find it takes a hell of a lot of concentration cutting and lining up the masking tape, it take literally hours to do but I think it's come out well in the end.

Vaughan

[mossiepilot]

Well done on the masking vaughan, and the Stuka is coming along nicely.

Tony.

[Guest]

I'm just enjoying the show by Voughan...

Well done

Roman

[Vaughan]

No progress at the moment as air compressor is playing up and waiting on the supplier to decide if it's reparable or needs to be replaced:sad:.

Vaughan