1/48 Airfix Ju87B-2 Stuka - First build in 15 years!

[Jonay]

• Kit manufacture: Airfix
• Scale: 1/48
• Type: Ju87B-2 Stuka (Kit AO5100)
• Extras used: Nil - OOB
• Paints and colours used: Tamiya all airbrushed except prop spinner where that was hand painted. Flory Dark Dirt wash all over, Daler Rowney oil paints (thinned with X-20A) for oil streaks
• Other info: This is my first build in over 15 years (when I was 11 I last completed a Shackleton MR3)

Please click on pictures to view them bigger - I can't find any rules on size limits so I thought I'd play safe until someone can confirm what the max size is in the forums.

I started this build I about a month ago - picking up where I last left off about 5 years ago - I couldn't get my mojo back then so I had another bash, and it's well and truly stuck now! All straight out the box.

I'm not too sure on the colours - I used Tamiyas Nato Green for the light green, and dark green for the dark, and light blue for the under side. But they look alright to me so I'm happy

All new techniques to me, airbrushing, masking (and it actually working), decalling (using micro sol/set), weathering (both wash and oils).

I'm chuffed

Ju87-1 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-2 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-3 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-4 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-5 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-6 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-7 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-8 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-9 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr

Ju87-10 by Jonathan Ruxton, on Flickr


Thanks for looking

[Newbie(kinda)]

15 years? You should be well chuffed with that. Well done! I know why it's missing...but it really needs a swastika!

[Jonay]

15 minutes ago, Newbie(kinda) said:

15 years? You should be well chuffed with that. Well done! I know why it's missing...but it really needs a swastika!

Agreed - its definately needed - it's been bugging me too!

[Newbie(kinda)]

Plenty of aftermarket out there. And it is Christmas!!

[shan]

wow, first in 15 yrs? you've done an amzing job!!

[celt]

Well tidy mun.

[stevej60]

Yes! A brilliant build of the old Airfix Stuka Jonathan, I did the Desert scheme a year or two back still builds well despite it's vintage

and those colours look fine to me I always mix my own from Tamiya base colour's.

[Jonay]

Thanks for the feedback

 

I wanted to do the desert scheme too - but I just really liked the look of the red against the green!

[BIG X]

On ‎15‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 8:41 PM, Jonay said:

Thanks for the feedback

 

I wanted to do the desert scheme too - but I just really liked the look of the red against the green!

 

With such a brilliant job on this scheme you really should do another in a desert scheme

[cocky05d]

Very nice ,i have got the kit waiting to have the canopy masked .The rear gunner in mine looks a bit like nick griffen

[phildagreek]

[DennisTheBear]

First in 15 years? Truly well done then!

 

DennisTheBear

[stever219]

That old kit still buffs up well, but treat yourself to some swatikas for it; you know you want to!  The new-tool 1/48th B-1 is due out soon and if it's as good as its 1/72th forebear it'll be a joy to build.

 

I've been discussing Luftwaffe colours with a couple of friends recently and the consensus is that they probably varied depending on who applied them, with what, which thinners was used and what they were applied with (brush, roller, spray, yard broom or whatever).  Your camera, monitor, software and browser will affect how the colours appear on screen (as will ours, the viewers) so a definitive comment on their accuracy is highly improbable.  Suffice to say they look pretty good from here.

[Overpin]

On 14.12.2016 at 1:50 AM, Newbie(kinda) said:

15 years? You should be well chuffed with that. Well done! I know why it's missing...but it really needs a swastika!

 

Removing swastikas from model kits & pictures is something that I've always found a bit weird. Was looking at a few WW2 Finnish Air Force model kits recently, one had the swastikas replaced with crosses and the other one had just a blank circle where the insignia was supposed to be. I understand the nazis are still a sore issue and something no one wants to be associated with, but I just feel like airbrushing history isn't exactly removing evil from the world.. 

 

Anyway, brilliant job on the plane! I've just recently returned to the hobby myself and churned through a couple of cold wars bombers, and it just gets more fun with every model and every new thing you learn. Great to see people getting into modelling, I've thought of it as a dying art but I might still be proven wrong.

[Bob Henry]

A very nice build ... and thanks for joining us.                       Bob H.