Junkers Ju 387 "Falke" (Hawk) what-if (scale 1:72)

[Father Ennis]

I do indeed,my friend. Execellent work !!!  I can't wait to see more, too !!!

[dumaniac]

yes - nice cuttin' n shuttin'

[MaxHeadroom]

Thx for your comments, friends, my face turns red by reading about your curiosity.
Let me tell you: I'm only a "blutiger Amateur" as we say in Germany.
That is (1 to 1 translated) a "bloody amateur", someting like a "Greenhorn" or something like that, only having doing the first step of a long walk.

@ Father Ennis: Seems YOU are interested in a special way... I hope, I won't disturb you. 

Max

[MaxHeadroom]

A little more food for your eyes!  

At first (sorry for the quality) a view at the dashboard-to-be.

It was made by a part of a 1:35scale turret-door of a Panzer IV and by slices of the hulls of ordinary wires in 2 different diameters (red and blue).
("Damn! What wire must I cut to prevent the ignition of the bomb? The red one or the blue one?" LOL )

Now the view from below into the re-opened space for the jet-engine:

I added some pieces of plastic from my spareparts-box and some putty to create the front and back parts of the tunnel/tube of the jet-engine's "home".

And now a front view:


Closed again, front view:


Closed again, rear view:


(Some more of the old colour was removed while the build was in progress.)



Btw, this should be the engine of my jet-propelled "Stuka":



Curious for your comments,

Max

[Old Wombat]

So far, I'm fascinated!

Just hanging out for the finished product.



Guy

[MaxHeadroom]

You can imagine, I didn't rebuild the complete Jumo 004 jet-engine..., I have confined myself by create the intake-view and the outtake-view:

Creating the intake-view i have used a "Zahnscheibe", a pulley (english?) and the front-part of an old bomb to reproduce the first compressor-wheel including the cover of the starter of the jet-engine .
To create the cone of the outtake (see the pic of the 004-B-engine above) I took a segment of a cable-tie (a re-use cable-tie) and with a little help of a file... I got my cone.

The Zahnscheibe:


The cone:


to be continued...

Max

[MaxHeadroom]

I'm sooo sorry, dear friends, about the looong interruption.

Some things has happens, one thing was a HD-crash.
Because of the fact a lot of photographs were gone into the data-nirvana I only can continue with the now decaled jet-Stuka:













I hope you enjoy!

Norbert

[dumaniac]

hey Man

love the german stars and bars

[JayBee]

What is the back story for the German Stars and Bars? 

[MaxHeadroom]

Thank you!

The background story of the german star and bars you will find in my introduction on page 1, post 1 of this thread, and in the 13th post (12th answer) you will find my brainstorming (including pics) about the develloping of the insignia.

Creating/making the decals of the insignia and the "Killer Bee"-badges was the mayor problem and the reason why the final steps of building this jet-engined Stuka needs such a looong, long time.
Asking one of the producers of custom-made decals was no option because of the costs.
So, I asked my fellow modellbuilders at the german http://www.dmmb.info/-forum for some decals which weren't needed anymore.
Together with some of my old decals, I could make my special decals:
The "Killer Bee"-decals were made of two pieces of yellow tail-stripes of a Martin B-26 "Marauder", an ordinary black-inked ballpen and a scissor.
The german star and bars were made of usual german 2nd WW Balkenkreuze, white stars for US-military-trucks, circles of black decals made by a circle with a scriber (Zirkel mit einer Reissnadel) and some white lines to symbolise the bars.

Max
(real name: Norbert)

[MaxHeadroom]

Now the pics of the last duty.

After glueing the wheels and their columns incl. adding some brake-hoses, I created the seat-belts:



Made by a aluminium-candle-pot (for a tea-light) of 1 mm wideness. Same with the lock of the belts, but cutted out in a single step and glued, because of the 3-D-effect.
So you have a view into the completly self-made cockpit. Details are only made by tiny drops of colour.

The imitate of the belt-shorter/-wider are made of this:

This is a part of a old water-tap. The thickness of the wire is 0,05 mm.

Norbert (Max)

[Modelling_Mushi]

Max, that is a cracking build, and a great ressurection job. I just love the way it stands, excellent. 

[MaxHeadroom]

Ready for take off!  
Special thank to Matthias ("Carbon" of DMMB-forum) for airbrushing!

And now the pics:












On a "concrete" ground:


And just for fun in black and white:


I hope, you enjoyed the story of the building as well as I liked to build that model.

Norbert (Max)

[Army of One]

A full recovery after drastic surgery.....what a cracking result....

[MaxHeadroom]

Thanks a lot, pals!

I will take it with me to the SMC-Eindhoven/NL at Oct., 13th and show it there to the visitors.

Norbert (Max)