jcfay Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Howdy folks - well, I've finally finished this 1/32 Hasegawa Stuka G2, with Eduard's interior/exterior PE sets, Voyager model's metal barrels, and an Eaglecal decal set. This was Hans Ulrich Rudel's bird, but I decided to put it in winter distemper as well (I didn't find any pics of this specific aircraft in distemper so I took a bit of liberty here). Looking at some pics of winterized Stukas (super dirty, of course) towards the end of the war I couldn't resist the chance to weather to the extreme. The original build article started some months back (here's the original post: http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=20706) as part of the "Wings of the Luftwaffe" group build (also with a resin engine, which I abandoned since crafting replacement cowling panels was going to be such a bear). Couldn't make the deadline but at least it's finished! Hope you like it. It sure was a fun and time-absorbing build. Full view: Some views closer in of the weathering on the beast. The whole process took a very long time: More pics to come... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcfay Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 Alright, here's some more. Pics of the cockpit: This shot shows the high-quality Hasegawa canopy, and the great canopy interior decals, as well (mixed with some paint, of course): A good view of the instrument panel and radios: Some more sidewall detail through the excellent transparencies: Some shots of the underside. Also visible is the Eduard radiator replacement details: More Eduard detail: Next will be the guns... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcfay Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 Here's the guns. The include a bunch of Eduard details as well as scratch-built piping and tubes. And of course then they're weathered pretty heavily too... And, just one quick shot of part of my inspiration for this thing. A pic of a super-dirty stuka: Thanks for looking, JON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Wow, fantastic work Jon! Your Stuka looks wonderful, and your weathering is highly convincing. Well done sir! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Nice work Jon, worth the extra effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Jon, outstanding work dude, brill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanH Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 John That looks great! What an excellent job you have done. The paint looks great. I will have to look at the original post to see if you showed how you did the winter scheme. If it is not there, please post a few details about how you did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 The modeling is super but the weathering adds tremendously to the overall build. Excellent, excellent work!! Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattlow Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Jon Really good looking Stuka. Like the areas where distemper has been wiped off maintenance stencils - nice little detail. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Pratt Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Jon both you and Haggo come out with great Winter Stukas...it must be Christmas.Great work on the 87...cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big matt Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Great job! The weathering is really convincing and the gun pods are awesome. Just the inspiration to get me to look at the G-2 in my stash. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcfay Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 Guys - thanks very much for all of the compliments. It's appreciated. It was great to see Jamie's Stuka too; what a fabulous piece of work that is! Sean - the painting process on this took a whole number of steps, definitely far more than what I usually do on a build (due to the distemper). I didn't chronicle it in a thread (I'll be better about this in the future...) so here is what it was: 1) Primer, and then preshaded panels lines with black 2) Painted select spots (areas that could be prone to more wear) with Alclad aluminum 3) Added table salt with water to these spots, and let dry 4) Painted the standard RLM 65/70/71 camo, let dry, and then removed the salt exposing the metal areas 5) Gloss coat with future 6) Decals 7) More future 8) Weathered with artist's oils 9) Yes, more future 10) applied bluetac masks over the upper surface insignias and markings 11) Sprayed a highly thinned flat white mix over upper surfaces, unevenly and with varying patterns; removed masks 12) After drying, took paper towel with a bit of thinner to surfaces to remove some of the distemper, and further streak it 13) you guess it, more future! 14) weathered with artists oils, and applied tamiya smoke and a small bit of grey for exhaust stains 15) more future, with a bit of tamiya flat base in it for flat finish I think with all of the wait times between coats for drying this took me the better part of a month and a half or longer, but I think it turned out well. It looked like these sorts of Stukas were already pretty dirty even before the white wash was applied, so I wanted to do that too. The table salt/flaked metal thing also worked out pretty well too, but most of that is mostly hidden. Altogether I was going for many different layers. Thanks again, JON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loic Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Hi Jon, just like the other said, this is an excellent build and a great heavy weathered camo. Congrats, loic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I agree with everyone else, Jon: great build!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I agree with everyone else, Jon: great build!!! Me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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