Customizing the JU 87 Stuka

Yoxford · Post by **Yoxford** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:58 am

Finally took the Stuka out of the box and decided to add some details to make it pop. Removed the rubber antenna and replaced, added the antenna wire, working spring tensioner, isolators and cone deflectors, position lights on port (red), starboard (green) and tail (clear), added the pitot tube, side steps for the rear, ring sight for the rear MG, drilled out the barrel and fixed the gap in the lower cowling. Next up is to add some weathering as I did a bit on the spats and the exhaust and get rid of those damn rubber wing guns...

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 2:04 pm

Great work! Now you have to take on the flaps, lowering them slightly as they were on the actual JU-87

Yoxford · Post by **Yoxford** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:19 am

Thanks Tman for the kind words.

Ya know those molded on dive brakes are what kept me from picking up a stuka all these years...and when I saw the last one at TRU, I thought well now or never to get Rudell's colors...I was just going to put it on a stand in the den "as is"...then the rubber antenna started to bug me...thought about redoing the dive brakes but now that the wings are on I will let the sleeping dog lie. I hope with enough detailing, it will keep the eye away from the dive brakes.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:45 am

I love the 21st Stuka .

You are doing a great job on it.

The things that really bug me were the prop and the ailarons. I fixed the prop but the ailarons will not be a quick fix. But it is one impressive airplane.

Good job.

Der Kommandant · Post by **Der Kommandant** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:16 pm

That's nice.

Yoxford · Post by **Yoxford** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:47 am

Finally got the pilot and gunner in, but had to take the grinder to the pilot’s butt to get him to sit right. Took some shots and had to share these two…

smittyrob64 · Post by **smittyrob64** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:11 pm

It looks great

What is wrong with the original propeller?

YT · Post by YT » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:23 pm

Great work! Those last 2 pictures are amazing. What did you use for the antenna wire?

Yoxford · Post by **Yoxford** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:12 am

Thanks all,

YT I used piano wire, the thinnest I could find...I think it is 0.33 mm

smittyrob64
the prop does not bother me that much, but
From the side the prop has a weird forward tilt kinda like this...
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smittyrob64 · Post by **smittyrob64** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:32 am

Thanks,
I think I can live with that also, if it was anything more it would bug me to no end.
I'd like to do something like you have done eventually to mine.