Jabo mission

[crookedmouth]

Wels, Austria, May 1945. Vienna has fallen to the Red Army and a strong armoured thrust is advancing up the Danube towards Linz.

Hauptman Howard, Intelligence Officer of I.SG2, discusses a forthcoming mission with Oberleutnant Gibson. Elements of the 6th Guards Tank Army have been spotted on the outskirts of Anstetten and must be stopped before they reach the Danube bridge!

The Geschwader Kommodore is on hand to give advice. Despite having lost a leg to Flak, he is still a force to be reckoned with!

Unfortunately, Hauptman Howard is unaware of the danger he is in. Zimmermann's little dog Adolf has planted a "schuh-mine". Watch out Hauptman H!

Meanwhile, Feldwebel Oliver is hard at work on Yellow 14's undercarriage, demonstrating the magical properties of speed tape and brass tubing to his maintenance team. They should be able to keep this Wurger flying for a few more days.

Historical note: Yellow 14 probably belonged to 3./GS2 a Staffel in I Gruppe (Gruppenkommandeure; Hauptmann Herbert Bauer) of GS 2 "Immelmann" (Kommodore; Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel). During 1945, I Gruppe occupied various airfields in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and finally Austria, gradually falling back before the relentless advance of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. The surviving aircraft were flown to and abandoned at Neubiberg airfield at the end of the war.

[daz greenwood]

I like that a lot!

[crookedmouth]

WIP here. I'm afraid that my stamina lagged towards the end and there are a few aspects of the model that I could have done better. However, I'm broadly happy with it.

As I mentioned in the WIP, this will probably be my last build of the season and I expect to return in the autumn with the Airfix Sea Vixen - I'm all Wurgered out!

Thanks to all who offered their advice and support on this and other builds, especially H, Shark64 and Dave G.

Edited May 10, 2010 by crookedmouth

[Shar2]

That's great. Love the doo doo, sorry detail.

[CPNGROATS]

Hans, look behind you, dog schizer>>>>>>>>>>>

Cheers,

Uncle Otto

[crookedmouth]

...and has anyone noticed that the exhaust staining is notably absent behind the gun bay doors?

Lesson 3b. Always do your weathering with the aircraft in it's "in-flight" configuration.

[_H_]

Ha ha love the story and damn that dog for trying to ruin my namesakes freshly polished boots

Wurger looks great and the figures are awesome mate. I'd love to do a dio but just too fearful of figure painting!

Last model of the season??? Nope, not good enough. Go buy something new and have a tinker about mate!

Howard

[crookedmouth]

'Last model of the season??? Nope, not good enough. Go buy something new and have a tinker about mate!

'fraid so - more important things to do. like gardening, decorating, trips to the countryside...

I'll just go shoot myself now, shall I?

Anyway, I'll keep an eye on the forum and I have the prospect of the Airfix Sea Vixen to keep me going!

[kev67]

You done a marvelous job

[_H_]

'fraid so - more important things to do. like gardening, decorating, trips to the countryside...

I'll just go shoot myself now, shall I?

Anyway, I'll keep an eye on the forum and I have the prospect of the Airfix Sea Vixen to keep me going!

Booooooo!!

I don't think you'll last long before you NEED that plastic fix

Howard

[Dave Gibson]

As I mentioned in the WIP, this will probably be my last build of the season and I expect to return in the autumn with the Airfix Sea Vixen - I'm all Wurgered out!

Ayup,

That F-8 looks well and it seems to me that you've done a bit of figure painting before.

I suppose you'll be getting an airbrush over the summer vacation period? If you do, remember these builds as I think you enjoyed building them as much as we enjoyed watching the progress. Things slow down with an airbrush!

I've got the D-9 to a point where it was before the accident, so watch for that build being resurrected.

Dave

[AnonymousDFB1]

Nice work