Greg Law Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Seen as I put my hand up to do this early on, I have decided to add it to my rather extreme build list. It is a difficult build for me, if I get it done it will be worth while. I can't guarantee I will make the deadline, but it is a good build period, so you never know. This will be out of the box build and involves a lot of resin which isn't my favourite material for health reasons. The plane I have chosen to do is a Ju 87A-2 from St.G 163 based in Spain in early 1938. I have a new canopy for this kit, Thankyou Special Hobby, so the yellow one you see in the kit will be binned. Wish me luck because I'm going to need it. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Hello Greg ... Big Spanish Civil war fan here so is it ok to follow ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 Absolutely follow away. I've made a start by exploring the fit of the fuselage and wings. Let me say this is not a Tamiya kit. It is an old Special hobby kit and you know what that means. I've also looked at one of the gear legs and wheels. I have removed the crude moulded wheel and replaced it with the supplied resin one. It took a lot of carving and quite a lot of blood to get it to fit. I'm not looking forward to doing the next one. Still it works. I can see I Will have to improve the wing and wheel connections with brass rods. Like the Beaufort this one is making me think out of the box. Got to love it for now. Hate it later I expect...... You might be interested in my rebuild of my disastrous He 51 in Spanish War colours. This was a present from my daughter and because of the major rigging issues it ended up in a real mess. As she is visiting me this year I want to make a replacement. I order the kit yesterday. So busy busy busy I am..... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 (edited) Good on you. I too like the Anton with Spanish markings. These older Special Hobby kits do give extra work, but unfortunately it is the only game in town for a 1/48 Anton. Hopefully there won't be too many challenges ahead. Cheers. Peter Edited January 12, 2020 by Basilisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mottlemaster Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Hi Greg If i had this kit in my stash it would be the one i enterd in the stgb . This ,i think is an earlyish S/H kit so respect from me in takeing it on in full public view Cheers Alistair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 Just to give you an idea of the difference the resin wheel mod makes. Here is the roughed in resin wheel setup against the kit one. It took a lot of internal carving to get the wheel to fit in because the walls are rather thick. Sorry it is a bit blurry. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 Next decision is to rivet the whole plane because it looks pretty plain without it. I read that these stuka's had a lot of obvious raised rivets. Wish me luck it is another first for me. Also I have order with fast postage PE and a instrument panel for a Ju 87B. I will see what I can use in this one. The kits instrument panel Is too finely detailed to the point I can't see it without a magnifying glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 A quick question. Does anyone know if I have to cut the resin cockpit floor back to the indicated lines? The floor will get rather thin and I'm worried about breaking it. I have taken it back about halfway at the moment. The lower wing panel's are riveted. It does add interest to them. They were looking big flat and boring before. Now they are looking a lot more lively. I will do the rest of the wing tomorrow. I think I will tone it down a bit on the fuselage because if I followed the plan I have it would look unrealistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 Ok this build is going better than expected. I'm up to painting the cockpit this morning. I plan to do RLM02 side walls and RLM66 floor. But first I will undercoat it. The wing fit which was terrible, it has been sorted now. So now I have only a small gap to fill. The tail planes are a different story. The seating for them on the fuselage was rounded and needs to be sanded flat. I will need to make some brass pegs otherwise they will break off with the slightest touch. More pictures soon. Undercoating of the cockpit parts is done in black base. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 Cockpit now has been painted RLM02. Once I have done the detail painting I will put images up. I just tried the Yahn instrument panel and it fits perfectly. I will just use the resin one as a backing for it. That resolved one issue nicely. Adding to this list of issues with this kit is the rear gun mounting frame. There is only one part in the kit for it and that's a resin post which would Break if you looked at it sideways. All the brackets have to be scratch built and all the connecting bars have to be made of stretched sprue. Even the construction drawing is very vague. I will just have to boggy it up the best that I can. This is one kit that Eduard could have made a killing out of if they had made a good PE set for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mottlemaster Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Looking forward to seeing some pics of all this comming together .remember ,even just takeing pics of S/H resin can cause them to break. 😵 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 I think I will go out and get some plastic card and bits and pieces for this tomorrow. It looks like I'm going to do some more scratch than I had expected. Still it is all part of the fun.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 I've been detail painting the cockpit to day. All went well. I also cut the block of resin out that was under the pilot seat without breaking it. I'm going to try the new UV glue system on this build. Has anyone used it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Greg Law said: I'm going to try the new UV glue system on this build. Has anyone used it? Ive seen it used before, it seems to work quite well if done properly. Ive thought about trying it for canopies and lights to seem if that would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 I am going to try it on a canopy, so I will let you know. I only ordered it tonight, it will be about a week before I get it. Watch this thread and I will report but here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mottlemaster Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Lucky you have the old canopy to test it on . Looking forward to seeing your pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 Well is is the work on the cockpit so far I will be replacing the seat. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Bob Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 12 hours ago, Greg Law said: Well is is the work on the cockpit so far I will be replacing the seat. Looking good, you might be able to use the seat if you make some framing from bass rod or stretched sprue. As Peter @Basilisk has said, the Quickboost seat is on the narrow side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 I will see what it looks like when it arrives. The current seat in the kit is totally wrong I'm sure and the gunners seat is really bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jpthedog Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Greg - will be following your build. Really want a 1/48 Ju87A myself, but thin on the ground! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 Yes I'm not surprised. I've had this in my stash for years. The canopy was so old it went yellow. Special hobby replaced it for me, but took a lot of time to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mottlemaster Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 It's amazing how little change took place in the cockpit from the A to G model . Do you get the window in the floor with the A ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Mottlemaster said: It's amazing how little change took place in the cockpit from the A to G model . Do you get the window in the floor with the A ? Yes, there was one. It is on the 1/32 kit, but not on mine. Another thing to look into. Yesterday I made the missing frame that should be between the seat and the radio. I also cutout the first canopy which will be for testing. It is very thin walled, so I might have to Do this one closed canopy. Hopefully the new seat will arrive on Thursday. I'm going slow with This one because there is not much choice. So much needs to be replaced. I'm tempted to get that 1/32 one. It looks a nice kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 This is my first bit of scratch building. This is the missing partition. There are supposed to be more verticals, but I decided to make it diagrammatic rather than perfect as it was difficult enough to make as is. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 Well I've just completed one of those modelling nightmares. I had to put the exhaust ends one by one in holes that were too small. Talk about carpet monster food. Luck was with me and after much sweating I got them all in. The carpet monster went hungry tonight. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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