Reini78 Posted January 10, 2017 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossofiron1971 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Interesting subject! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 This looks interesting! Martian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 a start is done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 getting along with the interior work decided to use both fuselage sides from the RoG civil kit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzyman69 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 A sizeable "Junkers". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mancunian airman Posted January 23, 2017 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted January 29, 2017 Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 nice progress! so much detail that needs to be considered!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapper_city Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Good start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 slowly getting in shape, one wing attached, added the red for the Austrian flag 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rui Silva Posted February 2, 2017 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murray Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I love this plane! I've never seen one in 1/48, definitely need more! Very nice work so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 gaining shape 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 7, 2017 Author Share Posted February 7, 2017 preshading done, underside painted black 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 second camo paint applied 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) Nice! And quite big, isn't it Edited February 15, 2017 by exdraken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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