Spooky-style Junkers Ju52

[kitbasher]

 

[comrade harps]

A damn serious back story and yet a kinda of beautiful looking plane. Such are the sad realities of the real world that our whiffing reflects. 

[The Rat]

That is a great bit of work! 

[KiwiZac]

Thanks all! It really was fun to build, and the kit goes together so well it was very enjoyable.

Regarding the backstory, I realised that my stories tend to have a real "rose-tinted-glasses" view towards the machines of war I build and that generally they're great successes in the history I craft. After looking into the Spanish colonial conflicts I realised "glory" wasn't really part of that bit of history, and decided to reflect that a little. That being said, at least one of my current WIPs is a "warbird of glory"!

Because of the engine cowling shape I was going to build the Fw187 (a built hand-me-down from a friend) as a Spanish-built Merlin-powered machine in Africa - like the real-world Buchons - but the Mosquito props were too big for it. This project was a perfect home for those engines and it all worked out rather well! I'm very pleased with the look of it.

[Old Wombat]

Looks great, mate!


To paraphrase Humphrey Bogart:
"Of all the airspaces, over all the towns, over all the world, you had to fly into mine!"