Weizenbrot
Airman
- 13
- Jan 12, 2023
Hi all, I started this kit last March and finally finished it these days. Ta 152 is always one of my favorite aircrafts. Although it was somehow rough-and-ready during the time it was designed, the radial radiator and long-span wings are so beautiful and definitely worth building. I used to build a Ta 152C from Dragon, which was a kit I enjoyed. I noticed in the instrument that the H version includes a complete engine. It was very attractive to me and almost immediately gave me an idea to build a Dragon or Trimester Ta 152H. However this old kit's price has rocketed and the kit itself is not that easy to get. So I switched to Zoukei-Mura.
I knew some of ZM's 1/32 aircrafts which are famous for internal details. The idea of Zoukei-Mura is to provide an experience like building the real aircraft which is very attractive to me. However, comparing with their 32nd scale kit, this 48th scale kit simplified many details. So I decided to do some research and add them back. The kit, for example, separated the fuselage into three pieces, this is exactly the way real FW 190 series aircrafts were built, however it also brought some fitting problems. Same thing happened on the wing. In the following article, I will show the whole processes of building this kit.
The aftermarket parts I used are listed below:
Reskit Ta 152 wheels
Reskit resin line fittings
Liang Model 3D print bolts and rivets
Quinta Studio rivet decals
ANZY universal placards & symbols decals
Master brass barrels for FW 190
Finemolds WW2 Luftwaffe safety belts
The research references are listed below:
"The Focke-Wulf Ta 152" of Thomas H. Hitchcock
"WWII German Best Fighters - Fw190D & Ta152"of Nohara Shigeru
"Zoukei-mura CONCEPT NOTE SWS No.II"
Materials form Ta-152.de
Pictures from C. Silverlight 2018 on WordPress.com
And special thanks to the kind and helpful staffs from NASM archive for finding the micro films of manuals for me.
Considering this is the first time for me to build an aircraft with interior structures, I decided to focus more on the engine. The other reason of this decision is that there is no clear pictures or drawings for other areas like the gun bay. Come back to the kit, The Jumo 213 offered by Zoukei-mura has much more details than what we can get from Trimester's old kit. However, it still simplified many details. Here I used copper and aluminum wires to make the cables and tubes on the engine. I found that copper wires of 0.4 mm and thicker are difficult to form in desired shape. Aluminum wires are softer, but it seems they are difficult to be glued with superglues. So I drilled holes on where the wire will be installed. The strappings are cut from 0.03 mm brass sheet. Jumo 213 manuals and pictures of existing engines are cross-referenced at this stage, I used Procreate to put them together in the same page for easy comparing them.
The engine radiator flap actuator rods and rings are missing. I made them with 0.2 mm brass rods. The white rollers in this picture are cut from 0.5 mm PVC rods.
Please give me some more time to put my work into words. I will try to update it as quick as possible.
I knew some of ZM's 1/32 aircrafts which are famous for internal details. The idea of Zoukei-Mura is to provide an experience like building the real aircraft which is very attractive to me. However, comparing with their 32nd scale kit, this 48th scale kit simplified many details. So I decided to do some research and add them back. The kit, for example, separated the fuselage into three pieces, this is exactly the way real FW 190 series aircrafts were built, however it also brought some fitting problems. Same thing happened on the wing. In the following article, I will show the whole processes of building this kit.
The aftermarket parts I used are listed below:
Reskit Ta 152 wheels
Reskit resin line fittings
Liang Model 3D print bolts and rivets
Quinta Studio rivet decals
ANZY universal placards & symbols decals
Master brass barrels for FW 190
Finemolds WW2 Luftwaffe safety belts
The research references are listed below:
"The Focke-Wulf Ta 152" of Thomas H. Hitchcock
"WWII German Best Fighters - Fw190D & Ta152"of Nohara Shigeru
"Zoukei-mura CONCEPT NOTE SWS No.II"
Materials form Ta-152.de
Pictures from C. Silverlight 2018 on WordPress.com
And special thanks to the kind and helpful staffs from NASM archive for finding the micro films of manuals for me.
Considering this is the first time for me to build an aircraft with interior structures, I decided to focus more on the engine. The other reason of this decision is that there is no clear pictures or drawings for other areas like the gun bay. Come back to the kit, The Jumo 213 offered by Zoukei-mura has much more details than what we can get from Trimester's old kit. However, it still simplified many details. Here I used copper and aluminum wires to make the cables and tubes on the engine. I found that copper wires of 0.4 mm and thicker are difficult to form in desired shape. Aluminum wires are softer, but it seems they are difficult to be glued with superglues. So I drilled holes on where the wire will be installed. The strappings are cut from 0.03 mm brass sheet. Jumo 213 manuals and pictures of existing engines are cross-referenced at this stage, I used Procreate to put them together in the same page for easy comparing them.
The engine radiator flap actuator rods and rings are missing. I made them with 0.2 mm brass rods. The white rollers in this picture are cut from 0.5 mm PVC rods.
Please give me some more time to put my work into words. I will try to update it as quick as possible.
