mustang1989 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 I finished this thing up last year around August or so. I had been waiting 18 years to build this and finally got around to it. I started with a Hasegawa offering and used an Aires cockpit update kit. I have the double throw down Aires update with the enigne and all but just couldn't bring myself to break up the lines of this beautiful snake motif on this particular bird that I chose to build. I also used an Eduard canopy mask and some Verlinden details in the forum of the oil reservoir access displayed just in front of the cockpit on the port side and the wing mounted machine gun internals on the port wing. Paints are all Master Modeler acrylics on the exterior. Depicted here is aircraft T6+CP of 6/StG 2 from Libya in 1941 and was flown by Leutnant Hubert Polz. Its one of the more interesting schemes out there for Stukas. The color of the motif from what research I have done is still a mystery. It's either red or tan. I had both but chose to go with red due to the more sinister look of the red. 1
ghodges Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Ssssssssuper looking Sssssstuka! :P Congrats on crossing this one off of your to-do list! GIL
mustang1989 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Report Posted May 5, 2015 Thanks Gil and Dave!! It was a long time coming as far as building it goes. I remember first mentioning to my wife back in 1996 that I wanted to build one of these. lol . Oh well .............better late than never. :D
mustang1989 Posted May 7, 2015 Author Report Posted May 7, 2015 Thanks Z! That's a decal and a company named Tally Ho makes them. They are a tad bit short and I had to splice in a section of some aged Cutting Edge decals to make the snake the proper length.
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