Junkers Ju 87 B-2 Stuka

Zimmermaniac
some progress after laiying aside for a couple o' months. Spent a few hours masking the canopies, but the results are pleasing

Holger Kranich
Yeah, looks very nice, Zimmi! Cockpit and framework is really convincing!

Zimmermaniac
First attempt for splinter camo came out well, though it " eats " Tamiya tape 🙂

Holger Kranich
Very convincing, so far!

Holger Kranich
What RLM numbers are you using?

Zimmermaniac
70 & 71 for the greens, 04 for the yellow, 65 for the underside, all from Gunze

Holger Kranich
Ok, looks a bit different on the pix! But how i said before, well done!

Zimmermaniac
I know, I need to work on some kinda studio for taking better lightened picx

Holger Kranich
I have the same problem @ home! Light is not good for modelling and taking pix but i´m gonna work on it!

Zimmermaniac
I saw an article bout how to build it cheap, with a diffuse Ikea box and 2 halogen lamps, gonna try that in the near future

Holger Kranich
Oh that sounds good, keep me tuned if you finished! Does it look like a lightcube?

Zimmermaniac
don't know what ya mean by a " lightcube " Holger, but the principal is easy, place the box on it's side, throw in your background wallpaper and put the lamps on the 2 sides of the box, play around a little with the height either of the box or the lamps until your satisfied with the lightening, then shoot

Zimmermaniac
I'll take a picture one of these days, says more than a thousand words 🙂

Wilfried Bogaerts
Hi Zimmy, looking good! (I mean the Ju-87 😉 ) Alternating between a Swordfish and a Stuka, don't like wheelbays eh?

Holger Kranich
Allright;)!

Zimmermaniac
my Helldiver is still on the shelf Wilfried, enough wheelbaythingies there 🙂

Wilfried Bogaerts
yeah, and a very biiiiiig office as well

Zimmermaniac
So, canopies unpacked, close to perfection, as I say it myself 🙂

Holger Kranich
Canopy is looking great!

Philip De Keyser
Nice looking stuka Zimmy, how is the fit from this Italeri one, and the foto etch? The canopy is looking great, greetz Phil

Zimmermaniac
the overall fit is quite good, PE is ok too, exept as for the walkways, they are a bit thick as you can expect, but it'll come out well when the black is on I think (hope🙂 )

Zimmermaniac
decals applied

Holger Kranich
Yeah, looks good!Cant see any silvering!

Zimmermaniac
Untill now on none off my models I've had any silvering, just a case of a good layer of clear. I use Parket+ for it.

Holger Kranich
Seems to be a good stuff!

Zimmermaniac
you bet Holger, don't you use it ??

Holger Kranich
I use a stuff called "Erdal Glänzer" i think its similar. Should not be as good as Future but smells very good!;)

Zimmermaniac
I guess it's the same stuff. Problem with it seems to be that it won't keep clear over the years, I've read that it turns into a brown shade after a while....and there brings the real " future " salvation, just pitty we can't find the real stuff here

Holger Kranich
Absolutely! I would give a ball for it!;)

Zimmermaniac
1 new pic of painting panellines with thinned Tamiya Smoke, then fading with thinned Gunze 31 - white green

Zimmermaniac
reaching the finish line, I'm happy with the results ( no weapons for the Germans though 🙂 )

Holger Kranich
I like your result! Really great job!

Zimmermaniac
finished as for as I'm concerned 🙂

Philip De Keyser
Great job Zimmy, do you ever sleep? greetz Phil

stefan natus
Looks nice,but you forgot to install some small things i believe.

Bill Gilman
@Zimmermaniac, I use this portable photo booth:

amazon.com/gp/product/B001B8..2&n=&s=&v=glance

You want diffuse lighting (so shadows are soft) and you want a lot of light (so exposures are short). A set like this gives you both. Plus, the lights should be daylight rated (around 5500 degrees). This provides accurate colour rendition, so the white balance on your camera should be set to daylight. Last, you should shoot at the highest f/# you can to ensure that the whole model is in focus at the same time. On my camera, that's f/8, but higher is even better.

I don't have a digital SLR, I have a Kodak digital camera with image stabilized 24x optical zoom lens. It has a shooting mode called "aperture priority" that lets me set the f/# and the speed (I use ISO 100 or 200), then it figures the exposure time automatically (but you can also bracket the exposures). If you go to full auto mode, most digital cameras will adjust all of those, plus the white balance, based on what it sees. Perfect recipe for a bad photo of your model!

I also put the camera on a tripod, because even with the bright lights, the exposures will be long enough that it will be difficult to hold the camera still. Very important for crisp focus. I use the timed shutter release so my fingers are not on the camera when the shutter clicks.

Not all my photos are taken that way, just the finished shots. The in-process shots I just point-and-click, and you can really see the difference in the colours. Have a look at my recent Lightning F.2A and you can really see what I mean.

If you don't want to bother with all this stuff, take pictures outside on a sunny day, but in the shade. You'll have a lot of light, but no sharp shadows. Do the tripod and aperture priority thing if you can! The photos of my Gannet and F-4EJ were done this way. I bought the photo booth because it's not sunny that often around here!

Hope this helps...Cheers, Bill

Holger Kranich
Yes a lot!