**** DONE: 1/32 Junkers Ju.87c Stuka - Carrier aircraft GB

[ccheese]

Good start, Paul. As with all naval projects, it starts with the keel.....

Charles

 

[meatloaf109]

Paul, good start. Also remember making a balsawood speedboat. Did all the sanding sealer coats, bought a model outboard motor and took it to the lake. started the outboard, set it to a wide circle, watched it zoom along until the 4th circle when it promptly sank. Could not understand why until Dad recovered some pieces.
Wonder if you guessed why? I used Elmer's white glue. Heck it SAID for wood.

And thus, a scientist was born!
I remember a wind up motor for toy boats, what was the one you had?

 

[meatloaf109]

The more the merrier! I am enjoying myself immensely!
The detailing begins. I left the rear cockpit former whole, no need for a rubber band on this one.
I carved out the center former in the 'pit after it was all dry. The pilots seat goes there.
I will be carving the wheel pants out of layered balsa a'la Charles' stuka build, so I only need one of the kit "pants" for reference. They have kind of a backwards rake to them, so I am using one for basic size. That leaves some pretty big chunks of balsa sheet that I can use to make other stuff, that is the floor sitting there.
I am also splitting the rudder and the stabilizers.

 

[ccheese]

Looking good, Paul. The watch-word here is take your time.... Hold off on the wheel pants til you get my care-package...

Charles

 

[Wayne Little]

great stuff Paul!

 

[A4K]

What Wayne said!

 

[meatloaf109]

No worries there, Charles, I am a long way from wheels; I still have a whole cockpit to go!
The rudder assembly was not wide enough to my eye, so I extended it a bit. Making the rudder separately helped also.
My wife has dibbs on my time today, so maybe I'll get to some more tonite.

 

[ccheese]

Looking good, Paul. Does your missus know you swiped her waxed paper ?

Charles

 

[Lucky13]

Cool!

 

[mikewint]

Paul, continues to look good, excellent work. The motor looked just like an Evenrude outboard, to scale, matching the boat. It was electric and used, 2 or 3 D-cell batteries as I recall. The bats were laid along the keel and gave ballast to the very light boat. Lesson Learned: Experience is directly proportional to equipment ruined.

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking good Paul.

 

[Wurger]

With all here, Paul.

 

[meatloaf109]

Paul, continues to look good, excellent work. The motor looked just like an Evenrude outboard, to scale, matching the boat. It was electric and used, 2 or 3 D-cell batteries as I recall. The bats were laid along the keel and gave ballast to the very light boat. Lesson Learned: Experience is directly proportional to equipment ruined.

Reminds me of working with Marines, give a group of them a rock and within a half hour they will have,
A) figured out a way to play with it,
B) break it, and
C) loose it.

 

[meatloaf109]

Looking good, Paul. Does your missus know you swiped her waxed paper ?

Charles

There are lots of things she doesn't know, like the bag of Oreos in my desk drawer,...
Package arrived today, Thanks!
I'm off to build for a while, picts soon!

 

[mikewint]

Paul, don't forget painting it white

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Off to a fine start there Paul, its going to be a cracker.

 

[ccheese]

Reminds me of working with Marines, give a group of them a rock and within a half hour they will have,
A) figured out a way to play with it,
B) break it, and
C) loose it.

A Gunny Sgt pal of mine once told me: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it.

Waiting on them pic's, Paul....

Charles

 

[meatloaf109]

D) paint it white.
Basic shapes in the 'pit, throttle, bomb release,..
rudder pedals. Balsa and tooth picks, that's where its at for this one!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[rochie]

nice work