Reini78 Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Finally my dad has some free space in his "factory" to start his next project for our homeland collection. This time going big and doing a Ju52 with the great ProModeler kit. I guess most of you didn´t know that, besides Austria´s civil airline, also our airforce used Tante Ju´s. They bought 3 aircraft in 1937, one was used as a staff aircraft and trainer for instrument/night flying, the other two were used as nightbombers. In 1938 they went back into German inventory.. stay tuned 8
Reini78 Posted January 18, 2017 Author Posted January 18, 2017 Neither my dad nor me knew all the details about the Ju52 versions before. Now that we dove into this subject we found out, that you can´t do a correct bomber with the ProModeler kit. It includes the neccessary covered main wheels and the basket for the gunner on the underside but the kit depicts mostly a "g4e" version or higher. The bomber was a "g3e" version and had partly a different fuselage to say no cargo doors on the roof and the right fuselage side. We saw that the Revell civil version kit had the correct sidewall, so we spent some more money and bought the kit. above is the military kit, below the civil one Regarding the roof, gonna try to fill the cargo door. Another option would be to cut the roof parts apart and use the front part from the civil version but there the mount for the antenna mast is in the wrong position... 2
Reini78 Posted January 23, 2017 Author Posted January 23, 2017 getting along with the interior work decided to use both fuselage sides from the RoG civil kit 3
Mancunian airman Posted January 23, 2017 Posted January 23, 2017 Making one aeroplane from the TWO kits should prove money well spent and I am already covinced it will be a winner due to your research into a pretty unknown type. . . 1
Reini78 Posted January 25, 2017 Author Posted January 25, 2017 civil and military kit parts fit together nicely filled the roof door panel with dissolved putty, now gonna spray some paint on it to see how it looks 2
Reini78 Posted January 29, 2017 Author Posted January 29, 2017 without the corrugated surface, the roof door would be easy to remove, only could tone down a bit the door panel lines, guess with the final camo it will disappear a bit more some work on the engines 2
exdraken Posted January 29, 2017 Posted January 29, 2017 great subject you chose! and lots of news for me as well..... taking notes, so please do not stop providing more info!
Reini78 Posted February 1, 2017 Author Posted February 1, 2017 started to paint the Austrian flag on the rudder the military kit fuselage halves have the tailwheel mount molded on, the civil kit fuselage halves haven´t and the kit comes only with a tailspur, so my dad cut of the wheel parts from the military halves and glued it to the civil halves primed the whole thing the civil fuselage halves have holes for the early style exhaust which our bomber hasn´t, therefore some filling with plastic rods, cutting and sanding 6
exdraken Posted February 1, 2017 Posted February 1, 2017 nice progress! so much detail that needs to be considered!!
Reini78 Posted February 2, 2017 Author Posted February 2, 2017 slowly getting in shape, one wing attached, added the red for the Austrian flag 2
Rui Silva Posted February 2, 2017 Posted February 2, 2017 Hi Reini78, I've been following your topic with interest, I'm Portuguese and in 1936 the Portuguese Army Air Force bought 10 Ju 52/3m g3e "auxiliary bombers", strangely our bombers had both the dorsal gunner's position and the civil fresh air intake on top of the fuselage so making a model is even more complicated! For the record, the Portuguese Air Force operated a mix of the 10 original g3e, 2 ex-Norwegian g8e (all re-engined with surplus T-6 P&W engines and cowlings) and 15 French-built Amiot A.A.C.1 Toucan until 1972 (!). Keep up the good work! Rui 4
Murray Posted February 2, 2017 Posted February 2, 2017 I love this plane! I've never seen one in 1/48, definitely need more! Very nice work so far!
Reini78 Posted February 2, 2017 Author Posted February 2, 2017 2 hours ago, Rui Silva said: Hi Reini78, I've been following your topic with interest, I'm Portuguese and in 1936 the Portuguese Army Air Force bought 10 Ju 52/3m g3e "auxiliary bombers", strangely our bombers had both the dorsal gunner's position and the civil fresh air intake on top of the fuselage so making a model is even more complicated! For the record, the Portuguese Air Force operated a mix of the 10 original g3e, 2 ex-Norwegian g8e (all re-engined with surplus T-6 P&W engines and cowlings) and 15 French-built Amiot A.A.C.1 Toucan until 1972 (!). Keep up the good work! Rui hi Rui! nice pic, is a good looking scheme too a pity Revell hasn´t done a correct bomber version, sometimes I wish that the loads of 1/72 kits were available in 1/48, I think there is every ever built aircraft available in the smaller scale regarding the Ju52 bombers, as I´ve seen on pics, there are minor differences from country to country, even, as you mentioned, in a country´s fleet 2
Reini78 Posted February 7, 2017 Author Posted February 7, 2017 preshading done, underside painted black 2
Reini78 Posted February 9, 2017 Author Posted February 9, 2017 Sadly there is no information about the exact colours used, only gray, green, brown. Guess they were most probably similar to RLM 61/62/63. My dad used a selfmix gray paint for the first camo tone. 4
exdraken Posted February 15, 2017 Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) Nice! And quite big, isn't it Edited February 15, 2017 by exdraken
Reini78 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 paintwork done the gray is a selfmix, the green is Gunze H303 (FS34102) and the brown is Gunze H406 Chocolate Brown 4
Reini78 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 On 15.2.2017 at 8:35 PM, exdraken said: Nice! And quite big, isn't it yes it is the length is ok but the wingspan makes the handling a bit challenging
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