re: Vader’s Model Desk: Junkers JU-52

I always enjoy seeing your work .

There’s one of these about 45 mins away from me and IIRC it’s the only flyable one in the country.

ETA: it is extremely loud

Well I love it...

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I had no idea any were left in flyable condition.

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This is it. Another fun fact…..the Aviation Museum has a hanger salvaged from WW2 that was bombed out. They built it on the original skeleton and ended up finding welded initials from a slave laborer hidden on the backside of one of the trusses. They have a light and a mirror pointed towards it to view.

The getaway plane from Where Eagles Dare (1969).

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Junkers Ju 52/3mg4e Flies the Allied commando team into Bavaria and later rescues it at the end. It's a Swiss Air Force Ju 52/3m, registration A-702 which was used as a Luftwaffe aircraft; the code could be that of the KGrzbV 109... if flipped.

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https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Where_Eagles_Dare

Awesome work.

Keep posting.

Snow Nazis

Damnit, I’m in.



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Outstanding, bit at this point we'd expect nothing less.

So I took the kid (13) to the hobby shop last week so he could buy a couple rockets with his birthday money. Well, he found a couple rockets but also picked up this (which was a surprise).



He started it yesterday and I've been impressed by his first effort. He watched an hour long youtube video on this specific model. His painting effort is what you'd expect but not terrible based on experience level (he's just using inexpensive latex paints.) When I asked him if he was going to just spray the bottom of the CSS Virginia with gray primer he said, "Dad, the Virginia was only an iron clad above the waterline. The hull needs to be brown." That's my history buff kid.

Fwiw, we abandoned the corsair we started. There were some fit issues with the wings we couldn't solve.

Was that in a book? If so, which one?

Tamiya acrylics are good, no doubt, but there are far better alternatives.

Tamiya’s paint pots are a pain in the arse to mix and get paint in and out of. So many damn toothpicks.

Tons of other incredible acrylic paints now come in squeeze bottles. Easy and clean to work with.

Mission Models and Vallejo are a couple I have in squeeze bottles. I hardly ever use Tamiya anymore, as they continue to choose to remain in the past.