old thumper Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) Hopefully my first of many entries into this group build, it's the good old Stuka kit. First of all the artwork featuring a diving Panzerknacker. And now the parts. Briefly. The Stuka is one of the Matchbox kits that until now I have never built, I remember the artwork well and always fancied it so looking forward to this. The parts look pretty good so at the moment I'm thinking that I will just follow my usual Matchbox kit building procedure. I will be building the revell kit alongside it to help as a guide to improvements, depending on which version I build the Revell kit may provide a few spare parts to the Matchbox build. The Matchbox build will have to be the canon armed JU87 G, the Revell build probably a winter camouflaged JU 87D, in which case the Revell guns and decals will most probably find themselves on the Matchbox build. Edited October 23, 2017 by old thumper 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arniec Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I was already thinking when the Stuka would be seen here. I liked the box top as well. Cheers, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREG DESTEC Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Great choice OT, Can't wait to see this one build up. Didn't Revell re box the Matchbox kit as well? Cheers Greg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old thumper Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 2 hours ago, GREG DESTEC said: Great choice OT, Can't wait to see this one build up. Didn't Revell re box the Matchbox kit as well? Cheers Greg Thanks. To be honest I bought the Revell Stuka expecting it to be a re-box of the old Matchbox kit. It turns out though that Revell released their own Ju 87 D/G kit a year or so before Matchbox released theirs, and both kits even have very similar decal options. I hate to say it but the Revell kit looks the better of the two, but then I haven't built either yet. So no Revell never released the Matchbox Stuka under the Revell brand name. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Very nice choice, built a few of these in my time, I think the twin 37mm cannon had something to do with my liking it. Best hurry up and finish my T-34 before this bad boy comes looking for it! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Great choice and it is very nice too see this kit again build. Revells Ju 87 D/G looked a bit better IMHO so i am looking really forward to your builds. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Hi @old thumper Did you ever finish this one ? You are very welcome to build it in the current Matchbox 50th anniversary GB. Cheers Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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