Junkers Ju-87Y Stukaka

Tophe · January 25, 2019, 06:31:40 AM

from http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,46069.60.html

Quote from: Tophe on January 12, 2019, 09:53:32 AM
My father sent me money unexpectedly for the new year, in case this is his last year (or mine) $:-\$
I ordered at Unicraft the Kogiken III twin-fuselage and the Mitsubishi Zero twin-boomer (radial Fokker D-XXIII), then a 1/144 F-16 to complete (I will turn it into a tail-sitter), and there was still a little money remaining: a Zwezda Ju-87 1/144. Thanks Daddy!

The tiny Ju-87 arrived today.
The backstory is that in 1944, a captured Ju-87 Stuka was given to French free engineers to be butchered as a revenge for their families killed in 1940 by this bomber, and they made a completely innocent thing from it. Stukaka does not mean anything but caca is a bad word for poo.

Tophe · January 25, 2019, 06:33:26 AM

There was so huge a number of parts (eight), I will not use them all, just six of them:

Tophe · January 25, 2019, 06:34:38 AM

Then the butcher came, and...

Tophe · January 25, 2019, 06:36:59 AM

Discarding extra sub-parts, the model is taking shape:

Now, putty...
Besides, it will be a T-tail.

dumaniac · January 25, 2019, 03:00:31 PM

interesting - looking forward to the next stage

zenrat · January 25, 2019, 03:37:44 PM

I like the name.
A Stukaka sounds like something that would drop fertiliser onto fields. Diving to deposit it into the exact spot it was required.

Tophe · January 26, 2019, 03:54:24 AM

Thanks!
Sanding is done, first sanding because imperfect, so putty again (the putty tube is not huge: the model is very small)...:

Tophe · January 29, 2019, 04:00:27 AM

The new sanding is done:

Tophe · January 31, 2019, 12:19:08 AM

The tailplane and the vertical things are glued now.
The evil memory of the Stuka was related to its W-wing, spats, siren, all that was removed. Now on the Ju-87Y there is retractable undercarriage, the vertical devices are radars (for safety, not for Killing), and there is full silence (not even the sound of an engine):

NARSES2 · January 31, 2019, 06:05:38 AM

Now that looks like the type of grainy photograph you quite often see of 1930's project models. Especially Soviet ones

Tophe · January 31, 2019, 06:20:21 AM

There is an explanation about the picture. My Corel PhotoPaint software is not working currently (because I had to repair the computer).
So I used MS Paint to handle the picture of today, and it is less performing in pixel softening/grades, sorry...

NARSES2 · January 31, 2019, 06:33:27 AM

Quote from: Tophe on January 31, 2019, 06:20:21 AM
There is an explanation about the picture. My Corel PhotoPaint software is not working currently (because I had to repair the computer).
So I used MS Paint to handle the picture of today, and it is less performing in pixel softening/grades, sorry...

Don't apolgise Tophe, it looks good

As said I could imagine seeing it in a reference book on "Soviet secret projects of the 1930's"

Tophe · February 01, 2019, 12:59:20 AM

Thanks.
The model is now half-painted (the underside is painted and dry).
You see, this is a tiny model...

Tophe · February 01, 2019, 01:02:10 AM

Then painting the side above.

When dry, I will paint the canopy and this will be finished (tomorrow probably)

kerick · February 01, 2019, 07:37:53 AM

Very interesting! Looks cool