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Hope you get full power soon. Best

Very kind, noelh It looks more like a tool shed or cookie factory than a plane 😄

Thanks Bronzemeister! Thanks Lolo! Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers

Steve, you are more than kind. Glad you enjoyed the thread. Cheers

Hi Stuart Yes, I use a photoetched set for the metal fittings, and tape for the belt. Cheers

Let's think of it as a Japanese hotel (the ones with the "capsules" you slide into) for models. But if anyone wants to buy me a castle on the countryside or the shore of a beautiful sea with room for me, my wife, and 350 models exhibited in a dust-free, climate-controlled environment and good lighting, I will certainly not say no! 😉

Much kind of you, Rog! Cheers

Thanks Bill And yes, decals on corrugations, one of the many stumbling stones of the meandering modeling roads. Your kindness has no end, AW. Cheers

The detailing of the interior proceeds. The two tables with brass edges are added, and then the typewriter, newspaper, book:

Thanks for your kindness, RAY.

Thanks! It took about two minutes, and then some paint. I still have to paint the lever aluminium. Cheers

And in the box it goes, but with two friends to make company. Some times I hear them conversing during the night.

Thanks Martin! I told my wife that even with corrugations "she" is a beauty. She misunderstood, and it took some convincing not to sleep with the frogs outside tonight

A typewriter for the secretary is fashioned: Cabin and individual lights and vents are added, a couple of carpets, and the tables in progress. Above the typewriter is the newspaper cover, that says "Citizen Kane". My good printed kaputed long ago, so this is a low def print, still convincing for the purposes of an interior that will be barely seen. On the background are the windows drying from a bath in clear acrylic, and the masked wheels to paint the hubs:

😂🤣 Look, but don't use! Or you will provoke the ire of H.M. Inspector Melchett

You are very kind, thanks! I agree on the photos, good photos present the model in a way that shows many angles and vistas, helping to visually apprehend the shapes and details. Cheers

Thanks very much! Cheers

Thanks Chris!

That IS a brilliant idea! I have still to add a small table between two of the facing seats, since there was a "secretarial position". May be it could be on it. Otherwise the temptation would be too hard to resist if you were to find it in the loo... Regarding kit purchasing: I only buy kits that I really like that have a really fair price when they are first issued. The best example of this is the recently-released four little civil kits from Avis (three of which I already built and posted, and I just got the fourth, the Bristol M.1D). For all the others I just wait until chance presents itself. That was the case with this one, which I got a few months ago for a nice price at Rareplane Detectives in the Palm Springs Desert area (we go there a couple times a year to visit friends). I got it, with other kit companions that I also wanted, all normally priced. Other times friends and fellow modelers would get rid of theirs' for some reason, and they don't speculate on the price, even when they could, and you can get them for a price that is fair for both parties. Meanwhile I have enough models in the stash, so I can wait, and do wait. Cheers and thanks for your very kind words.

The completed model can be seen here:

Beautifully clunky, or clunkily beautiful, the Junkers Ju-52 is known by all. Historical notes pertinent to the Argentinean machines and model construction intricacies can be found in the building article: A product of the great mind of Hugo Junkers -who the despicable and utterly rotten nazis ousted of his own company and basically pushed to death- the Ju-52 became a symbol of roughness and endurance, flying even today. I have chosen for this model a more uplifting role and destiny, a nicer guise under which its industrial lines can be better appreciated, with a colorful scheme used in the southern routes by Aeroposta Argentina, in vivid red and metal to make it as conspicuous as possible during cold weather there. That high-vis scheme saved many lives on July 1946, since Ibaté had a panne on the snow and ice during bad weather, but was quickly spotted by another Aeroposta plane. It took a few days for a land-based rescue party to arrive and evacuate the crew and passengers (during that time they stayed inside the plane), and some more days of walking and horse-riding for all of them to arrive to safety. The plane was later repaired in situ, and eventually flown off to continue its service. The incredible saga of Aeropostale -and its successor Aeroposta Argentina- is a wonderful tale of adventure and daring, a romantic endeavor elevated to mythical proportions, and its pilots, French and Argentinean, legendary for their skill and courage. All of the available 1/72 kits of the Ju-52 need many corrections to depict the truly civil version of the type, since the kits in the market (and many of the converted real machines) are just ex-military frames adapted to civil use (which poses for the modeler a doors and hatches issue). The necessary set was commissioned from Arctic Decals, no model would exists without them. So here it is, a strange metallic bird flying over the Argentinean coastal and Patagonian landscapes, bravely enduring the harsh weather conditions and the scarcity of resources, aptly and boldly flown by its pilots.

A couple of linkages and it will be ready:

Thanks Stuart So far things are going well. More to do. Cheers

It went well, Stuart. The Muse Styrene smiled upon the model. cheers

Anyone applying decals on a corrugated model (in this case fine corrugations in 1/72nd) knows that things can often go wrong. The decals may not conform to the corrugations, silvering happens, etc. Arctic Decals set, which is printed in a good thin carrier, worked best removing all carrier from the letters (that's for the fuselage and wing regs), including the bits inside the letters (as inside the little triangle on the A) and trimming all exterior to the very edge of the image, applying to the area on the model plenty of Micro Set, applying the decal, letting the decal rest for a few hours, apply Micro Sol, and gently pressing the decals into the grooves, (rolling, not sliding or dragging, as with a rolling pin) with a Q-tip along the grooves, several times. It may require more applications of decal solution the next day if not completely conformed. This needs fine tuning, and patience, hence my first mishap. While I waited, I added the navigation lights from the CMK set, and the wire antennas from that stretchy material that again made me use harsh language. But it worked at the end. You may notice that the font employed in Ibaté's registrations was for some reason not the standard one, having extra horizontal bits on the vertexes of the Vs and As. If all goes well, tomorrow will be props, ailerons, doors, hatches, and eventually photos. Fingers crossed: