As promised, here is another plane
GPM's ABC nº213 is a well known kit, with a relatively modest number of parts but a very interesting winter camouflage.
It doesn't look to be a very complicated kit but some parts are rather small. A good example of that are the rudder pedals. In the kit, they are supposed to have double thickness. However, they are so small that I went straight to a single thickness solution, by painting the paper back side...
[Fertig] GPM 213 Ju-87 Stuka
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- Ricleite
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Ric does it again
Nice choice, the winter camo looks grrreat! Looking forward to see progress
Cheers, Old Rutz
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Hello Ricleite,
I did this one a couple of years ago. Fits really well, the cameo is great. The Gomex canopy I bought did not contain all parts necessary, but there is no other.
I remember doing the rudder pedals the same way you chose.
Zaphod
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@ Rutzes - you're free to enter
@ Zaphod - What you say about the canopy is a bit worrying! I bought it, too. At first sight, it seemed too short. Then, I noticed that it had two parts and changed my mind. Now, you are changing my mind again, to the wrong side
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Great! =D>
How do you cut out these mini parts? The Crosshair, e.g.
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Amazing those tiny parts should are really hard to cut properly.
What more to expect fom Ricardo?
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For cutting, I always use the good old knife that appears in the first picture. Some care and a broad daylight are helpful, too With such flimsy parts, I always cut bit by bit, pressing the knife vertically. Depending on the knife position, I get shorter or longer cuts/bits. Needless to say, for the gun sights, it was almost vertical.
Im a bit suspicious about the pilots seat base. It looks too high. I have to check it, after completing the cockpit. No problems with the propeller. The nose tip slices should be a little longer but that was easy to fix with a suitably painted card circle, glued inside. -
Again, I'm amazed as well as the others writing before me. @)
Of course, I will follow your build again and I'm looking very much forward to see the building process of the Stuka.
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I see the knife, I see the results, but I still can't imagine how those two fit together... @)Same here! I, too, have a knife, I have small parts with my models, but my results look a bit different
I think another 38 years of training, and I will be as good as Ric
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Ricardo, the propeller is a work of art!
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Thanks for all your comments Perhaps the nice climate and broad daylight here in Portugal are helpful, too But I see that it works as well elsewhere
@ Norm - it is not so much to mix the colours but rather to choose the good ABT pen number
The front end of the Stuka went quite well. I just had to trim, very slightly, the diaphragms with the printed radiators. -
@ Norm for a civil engineer, the terms formers and structural diaphragms mean broadly the same: transverse, load carrying parts. However, you are perfectly right: the term formers is more appropriate for aircraft. Being a civil engineer, I take the structural for granted when saying diaphragm. However, someone from, say, the health sector, would probably think of something different :rotwerd:
Thanks for the free English lesson. Amongst other things, I learned that Portuguese and English have something in common: they are treacherous to the unwary and that is a good part of their charm
Well, moving on from front to back, I beefed up the tail structure. The original one didn't look very solid -
Um abração, Norm
The tail is complete. On now to the middle section... -
The flaps and ailerons are clearly separated from the wing. To give thickness, I added a couple of paper strips inside. They are visible on the first picture.
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Hello Ricleite,
great work and progressing quick.
I remember now, what annoyed me with this section was the mis-colored part which closes th gap between hull and rudder. They forgot to do it in greyish.
Zaphod
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You are right, Zaphod, it is a very silly mistake. It is well depicted in the pictures on the kit's back cover
The main landing gear is an interesting assembly. I didn't use a couple of parts from the kit and, instead, used small strips of paper to glue the slices together. -
Today, I show the parts that will link the ailerons and flaps to the wings, as well as some interior furniture.
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Strangely enough, the lower box on the first two pictures proved to be too high! I cut a bit above and another bit below, in order to keep the printed detail.
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hi ric,
i haven't been here for some time, so seeing you building this kit at the same time as I am is a very nice welcome...there's one minor difference on my stuka anyway - it lacks some 40 percent of size...
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BTW, just a note - there's an inaccuracy in this kit, which disturbs me a bit. As far as I know, flame dampers on exhausts were installed on D-7s and D-8s (so they could be used as night fighters), not on D-3s. I'm still not decided whether to change it to regular exhausts or not, it seems to be quite complicated because of smoke marks on the fuselage... Plus, I'm thinking about opening the cowling and showing a bit of the engine, which would require removing the dampers... Well, we will see...
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Nice to hear from you, Pawell, and I'm looking forward to see your report If I got it well, you are working at 1/50?
As you know, I am too lazy to modify a kit :rotwerd: but not to add paper or card parts where useful to make construction easier and/or stronger. A good example is in the step on the cockpit and on the box support of the machine guns. I added some card strips there, as you can see in the first picture. -
reinforcing the model with pieces of cardboard or even metal pins and injection needles is what I do all the time as well; could it be some kind of professional deviation of civil engineers?
your stuka looks great so far, keep it up! =D>
and, mmm, mine is in 1:48 - i did the maths by heart, so it might be inaccurate a bit...
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...could it be some kind of professional deviation of civil engineers?
Most probably yes, Pawell
The wing structure was just too weak to my taste. It had a single spar that could easily be twisted, both at the fuselage junction and all along the spar. I added a lot of card parts to make the structure stronger and get a new link with the fuselage. -
The wing was a lot of add-ons, like radiators, machine guns, flaps and ailerons. Interesting stuff to build...
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wow, very nice!
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Thanks, Pawell
As you see in the first picture, I have already cut all the parts. As you can see in the second one, some of the parts were not easy to cut... -
the first picture - just frame it and call it art!
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Glad you like it, Pawell and Vanhalen
The canopy was not easy to assemble As stated before by Zaphod, the GPM plastic parts don't include the middle section. Fortunately, it has only single curvature but, nevertheless...
The fit was not very good, either. After taking the pictures, I noted that some corrections had still to be made. -
did you think about fixing the antenna pole to the canopy yet?
I'd like to make the antenna itself from "chemlon", which is a synthetic wool - it can be unraveled into very thin threads which are very elastic (on the airplane, you can push it even to the fuselage and it returns back without any damage), so it's really great for things like this... the bad thing is that the thread produces a lot of tension, so it needs to be fixed to quite strong hardpoints... -
Thats a good question, Pawell :). As Im working at 1/33, a thin steel wire should do the trick. There is no need to have a strong pole and even stronger link at the base, as it would be the case with some kind of elastic thread.
Today , I show the last construction pictures. The first one is, perhaps, more interesting than it looks. That is because the main bomb support struts are made of rolled paper with wire inside. With this 'material' it is possible to curve the rolled paper without destroying it. Needless to say, it is also much easier to paint and glue.
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That is because the main bomb support struts are made of rolled paper with wire inside. With this 'material' it is possible to curve the rolled paper without destroying it. Needless to say, it is also much easier to paint and glue.So you glueed the paper around the wire and than curved it? Or was the paper just stucked (without glue) on the wire?
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Hi Norman, I hope you'll like the pictures of the completed model
@ Zec - I rolled the paper around the wire but there is not glue between them. I glued the paper end (paper to paper) in order to avoid de-rolling, when curving the whole thing.Well, let's get to the pictures
The kit has not many parts but I find the detail level quite good. The main drawback of the kit is a rather flimsy wing and tail structure that is easy to address. Another thing that GPM could have done is not to black-outline the main wheel fairing slices. I have noted that Answer did this in their Cr-42 and it is a good idea. The incomplete plastic canopy is not a good surprise, either. On the 'plus' side, I'd put a very good fit and an excellent camouflage. All in all, very good value for money :super: -
...general views of the model...
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... and a few lateral ones, to finish with.
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great built indeed, grats!
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@) Amazing work! Congratulation!
My friend built this model in 1/72 scale: http://www.cardarmy.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1895
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Hello Ricleite,
i share your criticisms and your praise of the model fully.
Your Ju-87 ist really beautiful. You made most of it!
What will be your next project?
Zaphod
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Good Morning Ricardo,
Boy, have I missed a lot with this build by not logging on as regularly lately.
Congratulations on the completion of another museum quality model. You are an inspiration to us all. The models represent the highest level of competence.
I think publishers should be made aware of your skills Ricardo. I'm sure they would engage you as a professional prototype builder for their designs.
Cheers...John