Fiesler Fi.156C-3 - II/SG2 1943
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Here’s where we start, Academy’s plastic looks good but the molds must be getting tired, there’s a bit of flash to contend with. The Eduard PE set looks daunting, but almost seems essential on this spindly little airplane with its big windows
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My subject, found in “Luftwaffe Codes, Markings, & Units 1939-1945”. Further research shows that this Storch was in a ferry flight of Two that mistakenly landed on the Swiss side of the border with Italy. Both aircraft were confiscated by the Swiss Air Force. This one crashed during a high altitude rescue in 1948, the other is now in the Lucerne Transport Museum
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The PE in the cockpit is fiddly, but goes together nicely
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Sprayed with RLM66
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All the major assemblies assembled
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Windows masked and all the major components sprayed with RLM70. Due to the spindly nature of this thing, I’ve decided to paint and do all the initial weathering before final assembly. We’ll see how that works.
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Splinter pattern masked on the major assemblies.
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…and sprayed with RLM71
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Clear coated with gloss and decals applied. The decals are a mixture of the kits Balkenkreutzen, tail insignia from a techmod sheet, “Y”s from a generic Fantasy Print Shop sheet, and triangles from a Print Scale Bf.109 set.
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16 5 November 2023, 21:29
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Thanks all, so far it's been an enjoyable build. We'll see. How it turns out doing the assembly after painting.
20 November 2023, 05:48