Andrea Ferrari

It's the Bf110 for me since I don't see any in 1:24 coming soon...

That is quite reassuring, thanks

As an interesting aside - since I started voicing my concerns about the accuracy of the 1:24 Trumpeter Ju87 D-5 on this forum and on a few Facebook build pages (including the official Trumpeter & Hobby Boss one), I have been completely unable to gain access to Trumpeter's official website www.trumpeter-china.com/. Every time I give it a try I am told my browser is unable to connect to their server. Is anybody else experiencing the same problem?

That's even better LOL !

Thanks, much appreciated ! I'll be submitting a short feature (what about "A Tale of Two Stukas"?) soon to the moderators.

From what I have seen in the previous posts, the Hasegawa 1:32 D looks to be way too short on the nose, while the Trumpeter 1:32 D-5 is just the master copy from which the 1:24 kit was scaled-up, so it also should show the same deficiencies of its bigger brother. I'm not a rivet counter and I am quite forgiving, being well aware of my limits and limitations - but in this large scale (we are talking 1:24) and with such price tags these highly noticeable mistakes - this would be at the very minimum an excess of something like 72cm / 30 inches on the real thing! - are quite unforgivable. Taking for granted, of course, that that Trumpeter fuselage is indeed too long and we are not making a silly mistake somewhere (which I doubt).

I'm afraid I've missed something - I can't remember reading any political comments?

Thank you Chek! However I have a Mac, and when I copy and paste the image URL in the "Insert other media" tab it won't be accepted - the window turns pink (of all things LOL) and that's it. Thank you however for having uploaded my image and glad you like it - hopefully others will find it useful . If you guys think enough members would be interested, I'd be glad to do a short detailed write-up/review on the Trumpeter D-5 build with all the pros and cons and take a few pics of the finished model to be published somewhere here in the LSP website - just let me know!

Well, hum, I can't say I don't like the look of it - but shouldn't we expect accuracy in that scale and with that price tag?

Thank you Bob, much appreciated!

LOL ! But they're not supposed to think or make things up, they're supposed to copy the real thing which is sitting there !

For those interested, I have added three images to my Google photo album - a topside pic of my 1:24 Trumpeter D-5 model, a topside pic of my 1:24 Airfix B-2model and a composite of the two showing the mentioned discrepancy in fuselage length between the two kits. https://photos.app.goo.gl/zJ78qH5M6ErfwHpt9 I wish I could upload images directly in my posts but the Forum is not accepting any of my free photo hosts urls.

Thanks Nick for the suggestion and those very interesting photo comparisons. I think you're right - and that's what I'm going to do

So according to you the measurements, plans and profiles offered in the books I cited should not be reputed as verified or accurate: Shigeru Nohara's Ju87 D/G AERO DETAIL, Eddie Creek's Junkers Ju87 From Dive Bomber to Tank Buster 1935-1945 (Classic Publications), Haynes Owner's Workshop Manual Junkers Ju87 Stuka. If these are not reliable sources I don't what is. Which ones would you suggest then? Besides, I believe here we are both comparing kits and wondering how Trumpeter did scale a total length of 11,5 meters to 55 cm, when it actually measures up to 47.9 cm in 1:24. There's no comparing of kits in this, just a scale conversion. Or should we believe the Ju87 was NOT 11 meters long and all sources got it wrong? Btw, I'm far from bashing Trumpeter - I have built most of their 1:24 planes and greatly enjoyed doing it, even if most of them have inaccuracies - some slight, some serious. And the fallacies of their D-5 won't deter me from building the G-2. This time, however, I'll do my best to correct its inherent mistakes and try to build a correctly sized kit...that's why I became a member of this Forum, in fact.

Thank you Nick, much appreciated! I'm very surprised this serious dimensional mistake in the kit wasn't reported when the 1:32 Trumpeter Ju87 D and G came out (there are a few reviews and builds on the net) - apparently nobody noticed it or never took the trouble of alerting others. At least we'd have know what to expect with the 1:24 scaled up versions. Talk about nitpicking and rivet counters LOL!