A Filthy Spat Plane!

[Sisko]

As always love your work! Thanks for the pics I really like them.

I never realised how BIG a Stuke was until I stood beside one!

Man they are big!!!

Go forth and build more!!!!

[matrixone]

Thanks Radish and Sisko!

For many years I never was impressed much by the Stuka and thought it was a very ugly airplane (I still do), but after reading the Ju 87 Vol. III book by Kagero and the Stuka book (Vol.2) by Classic Publications I changed my mind about this airplane and now am a Stuka fan. What a rugged warbird it was, sort of a 1930s version of the modern day A-10.

Matrixone

[wolfik]

very very nice finish!!!!!!! I have pictures which shows aircrafts in a field base as very very dirty things...
but....I was thinking he escaped in a Fw190D.....at this time has his unit Fw190 and not Ju87....or Im w´rong?...  

[Archibald]

That guy was tough.

To say the least.  He also flew some 2,530 combat missions (a world record) and was the highest decorated German serviceman of WWII.  He was also somewhat famous for the number of times he was shot or forced down (some 32 times - several times behind enemy lines).  He was also wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy territory.  His exploits after the war - climbing the highest peak in the Americas, Aconcagua (6,962 meters (22,841 feet))as well as the second highest volcano on Earth three times, the Llullay-Yacu in the Argentine Andes (6,739 metres (22,109 feet)) - all with an artificial limb were also a feat.  A truly extraordinary individual!

Regards,

Greg

Nice model, and "disturbing" (more-than-real) photos, as usual !!

Rudel became friend with french ace Pierre Clostermann after WWII. Cloclo, too, was impressed by the guy. As Rudel didn't spoke a word of french, and Clostermann not a word of German, they talked Spanish !!   Rudel passed away in 1982.  

[matrixone]

Thank you Wolfik and Archibald!

Wolfik,
When I post pics of my finished Stuka I will also post a picture or two of Rudels Stuka when he surrendered. Rudel did have a Fw 190D-9 assigned to him but from what I know he only flew it once for a test flight, the Ju 87 was his plane of choice.

Archibald,
Rudel was an extraordinary person but on the downside he was a hardcore Nazi.
I don't like doing models of 'aces' planes very much mainly because they are usually done to death by other modellers and also because I don't want to glorify the pilots and what they did in the war. The machines and the camouflage patterns they used is why I prefer building these Luftwaffe planes.
I had no other markings to use with this model so it was Rudels plane or no markings at all!


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