Junkers EW.50 (finished page 2)

Tophe · January 18, 2020, 08:09:50 AM

I am going to build, modified, the weird (VTOL?) Junkers EF.50 (Entwurf 50? my version will be the EW.50).
This is a Unicraft 1/72 kit:

Tophe · January 18, 2020, 08:21:02 AM

Quote from: Tophe on January 18, 2020, 08:09:50 AM
Junkers EF.50 (Entwurf 50?

According to http://www.unicraft.biz/germ/juef50/juef50.htm
the EF code means differently. Ahem, sorry. $:-\$

Tophe · January 18, 2020, 09:41:43 AM

The EF.50 at 1/72 being too big for my shelves, my project is to reduce its size into a little glider:

Tophe · January 19, 2020, 09:09:48 AM

First drops of glue then first putty:

Tophe · January 20, 2020, 06:53:07 AM

I had used a drawing I made more than 15 years ago (from a photograph), but now I may correct it with the 3-view drawing included in the kit:

Captain Canada · January 20, 2020, 02:32:57 PM

I like that EF corrected ! Cool !

Tophe · January 21, 2020, 08:00:22 AM

Thanks!

Sanding then putty again:

Tophe · January 25, 2020, 08:38:40 AM

Sanding number 2 is done, to be completed, and I think I will use the huge propeller blades as a central rotor, with the top of a P-51 tank as rotor head:

Putty again (last time I hope):

Tophe · January 26, 2020, 07:29:16 AM

The 3rd sanding is acceptable (for me, not severe) and the rotor is built:

The whole is taking shape now:

Tophe · January 28, 2020, 02:46:50 AM

Going on slowly:

TomZ · January 28, 2020, 03:09:02 AM

Are you sure that prop is big enough?
Look a bit small to me

TomZ

Tophe · January 28, 2020, 03:12:46 AM

Yes, you are realist, while I am a dreamer... What-if...?

Tophe · January 29, 2020, 03:12:10 AM

Building the model is finished, ready for paint:

(the rotor is just put on top, not glued yet, to ease paining)

Scotaidh · January 29, 2020, 05:43:38 AM

C'est magnifique!

Tophe · January 30, 2020, 05:31:27 AM

Thanks a lot! (even if such a huge enthusiasm is probably ironic):

Now painting the underside: