Achtung STUKA!

Spanjaard
interesting..... 🙂

Andrea Morris
It;s part of a group build on "International Scale Modeller" forum starting in Jan... So stand by your beds! 🙂

Andrea Morris
Work has started &, after a day at the bench, most parts have been assembled, primed and some have been top coated. Things will slow now as I move on to the detailed painting.

gorby
This is a trip down memory lane Noob. I did it not long after it came out in the mid seventies, so I'll be following your progress with interest. Looks like there is quite a lot of flash to deal with. That first photo of the real deal looks great.

Clifford Keesler
Most interesting.

Andrea Morris
Cockpit all painted & detailed. Also the seatbelts have been done. Just the engine to finish & the fuselage halves can be joined 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Nice Dave.

Bryn Crandell
Interesting build. My favorite German A/C from WWII.

Spanjaard
looking better every picture

Clifford Keesler
It keeps getting better.

Andrea Morris
TKS Spanjaard & Cliff. I just have the instrument panel to finish and I'll close the fuselage up. Major progress expected tomorrow 🙂

playtime 222
That looks like an IL-2 shot?

Edwin 010
Following!

Andrea Morris
@playtime 222 "IL-2 shot" ???

Marco Gallmann
I'm in. Dave, I think playtime 222 means your photoalbum title looks like a screenshot from the computer game il-2 sturmovik. I thought the same 🙂

Andrea Morris
OK, fuselage all buttoned up, time to let all that glue dry.

playtime 222
@Marco - precisely 😄 I would say the later one rather than the original though.

Andrea Morris
Oh, OK, I get it. If you look at the trees & fields, they look like Flight Simulator scenery!

playtime 222
And still no closer to finding out what it actually is... state secret? ☺

Andrea Morris
As they say "The plot thickens"!

playtime 222
That was easy 😄 theairtacticalassaul..owthread.php?t=16509 @Marco - Yep, it's Il-2 Cliffs of Dover.

Andrea Morris
Well found Sir! Mystery solved 🙂

playtime 222
😄 I had my suspicions from the outset but I figured that the chances of someone actually going to the trouble of a shot in a sim (which is actually a lovely idea as you can get better shots than most boring box art) was far lower than nicking one off the web.

Andrea Morris
Yeah, now she's really looking like a Stuka!

playtime 222
Yep. Damn big bird in this scale too.

Clifford Keesler
Impressive as always Dave.

Andrea Morris
In primer 🙂

Andrea Morris
RLM 71 applied. It's enamel so I can't put masking tape anywhere near it until tomorrow! The underside has already received a coat of RLM 65.

Andrea Morris
Masked up & RLM 70 applied then all the masking removed. Now for some drying time before a flat coat & then the Montex marking masks 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Looking good Dave.

Andrea Morris
TKS Cliff 🙂 Work with the Montex masks (Instead of decals) has begun!

Clifford Keesler
I'm sure they will turn out great.

Andrea Morris
Not quite I'm afraid Cliff. The results are rather mixed. The masks just don't have enough stick which has left me with some touching-up to do 🙁

Clifford Keesler
You will sort it out.

Andrea Morris
Yup, all sorted now Cliff 🙂 Well errr, mainly due to my serious health scare, this got kicked on to the shelf of doom! So I have dusted her off, touched up the paint work best I can and given her a gloss coat. Then applied the stencils and gave her a wash. Then everything got a matt coat ready for final assembly.

Spanjaard
looking forward seeing how it looks after the wash 🙂 flory models?

Erik Leijdens
That is a big Stuka Dave! Looking good so far. Too bad the masks did not worked out as you liked to. I am currently building the same Stuka T6+CK, but in 1/48. I see you have the codes switched, did Airfix came up with that?

Andrea Morris
@Spanjaard No, not Flory, I use UMP washes umpretail.com ... @Erik The masks are from Montex 🙂 T6+CK on the starboard side & CK+T6 on the port side!?!

Erik Leijdens
I think the unit code, in this case T6, was always placed left of the balkenkreuz

David Thor
Looks really good!

Andrea Morris
Thanks David 🙂 @Erik I will just have to lay the blame on Montex and take it on the chin 🙁 Prop, engine cowls and dive brakes have been fitted, now I have the canopy & bombs to do.