Ju-87B COMPLETED

Donald Dickson II
I have had this kit in the stash for a while. Its one of the very few Axis anything I will build. Not a big fan of that, but this plane is just so interesting, even though it was outclassed almost immediately and pretty much a sitting duck.

Anyway, the markings are cool and I rather like the approach 21st Century took with the parts. No trees, just in sealed plastic.

I dry fitted most of the cockpit. Fit is good and all that. Now to see what the interior colors ought to be.

Villiers de Vos
I am looking forward to follow your project.

Donald Dickson II
OK, got some work done on this.

First. While the whole idea of parts bagged like this is kinda neat, it doesnt work well. No parts numbers. You gotta match parts to the instruction pics. Not difficult, but a pain.

Second. The directions have been wrong in a couple spots and just plain not showing one part placement.

Otherwise, not a bad kit. Fit s OK. Gonna have to do some seam work, but not awful.

Donald Dickson II
So, they would have you screw together the wings and the fuselage halves. Whatever. I glued them. BUT, that leaves the holes to put the screws in. They provide caps, but they are NOT adequae. So, putty and sanding that is totally not necessary. *sigh*

Villiers de Vos
Nice progress.

Donald Dickson II
OK, got the holes all filled and sanded and the canopies masked. Underside sprayed with white primer. Top side with semi gloss black because I ran out of flat black and didnt realize it. LOL I can do a little more with the underside fill spots, but the side ones seem to be pretty damn good.

And thank you Villiers. 🙂

Donald Dickson II
OK. I ordered the Humbrol paints in the RLM colrs for this. The only one that I have issue with is the RLM78. It is NOT a blue of any sort. And no, it doesnt magically change when it dries like some on FB tried to suggest it might. So I broke down and ordered a bottle of acrylic RLM65, the other blue that was used and is called out in some sources. In the meantime, I sprayed the lighter green on. A little more seam work and I will be doing the black green. I m full on painting the two green splinter camo that had the brown painted over.

Donald Dickson II
Well, I got the Mr Color RLM65. I may have said before, I detest acrylics, but I had no choice. At least it is solvent based and might actually bite in and not lift when masked. Hard to tell in the pic, but this one IS blue. 🙂

Donald Dickson II
Oh, I like lacquers as well. Whatever its classification, it worked pretty well.

Masked and sprayed the black green. Turned out really well. I dont want to spray the tan on now! LOL

Donald Dickson II
So, I got the tan on. Then discovered I had managed to lose the struts for the stabs. Great. So I went ahead and made some. Not great, but they will work I guess. And left side decals on.

Donald Dickson II
So finished this one up. The paint scheme isnt perfect, but its pretty close to the reference pics I found.
These guys got the snake colors correct whereas Revell and Hasegawa did it in red, which, as it turns out, it was not. The kit is decent. Lacking in detail. Fit is slightly better than average. Decals were brittle, but not hard to deal with. Instructions are not that great.
Fairly enjoyable kit over all.

Eric Thornton
Awesome result saving this as a reference. Love the serpent Stuka, on my to do list.

Donald Dickson II
Thanks Eric. As I said, the red ones by Revell and Hasegawa are not correct. This one and I think one other kit got it right with light tan.

Also, there is a debate as to whether the snake is on both sides or not. There were two planes with this marking. This one, there are only pics of the left side. The other one, there is one pic of the right, and it doesnt have the snake. BUT, there is no way to know when that pic was taken AND that doesnt mean this one didnt have both sides. I went with both sides.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Donald Dickson II
Thank you Villiers. 🙂