Dogfight double pt. 1: Stuka

[colin m]

Splendid work Peter, the paint looks great.

[stillp]

Whoops!
I put the last of the fuselage decals on, and wiped the brush across the fuselage side insignia, than a bit later turned the model onto the other side to fit the other swatika decal. Left it for a while to dry, then went to move it... the fuse side decal had stuck to the rubber on my assembly stand:


Luckily the torn-off piece came off the rubber after 20 minutes soaking with water, so I put some Microset on the fuselage and managed to get the piece back in place.

The small blemish on the left end of the balkenkreuz is a bit of the rubber that came off. I wasn't going to push my luck any more by trying to remove it.
Phew!
Pete

[Allen Dewire]

Wow, great save Peter!!! Lucky you could still use the piece of decal and it looks fine back on the plane. Push comes to shove, if you're not happy, you could add a few bullet holes across the decal and it would add a realistic touch.......

Prost
Allen

[adt70hk]

That's a great save!

[Lee Drennen]

As the rest of the chaps said “Great Save” It’s looks great

[Guest]

That was very lucky indeed … Wouldn’t have been impossible to fix otherwise, but probably not much fun.

[stillp]

And for my next trick... you might remember a few days ago I dropped the model and snapped the top half of the aerial mast off. Well, I managed to repair it, with only a little kink in it to show the repair! Painted it, added the two decals, one on each side. Then back to the paint booth for a matt coat... and dropped it again! This time the aerial came off in one piece, so I should be able to reglue it, but I'll leave that until after I've removed the masking - no point in tempting fate. Even worse than the aerial, under the fuselage just behind the wings there were two small L-shaped pieces, drains of some sort perhaps? crew entry steps, according to the Haynes manual for the Stuka. Anyway, they're not there any more! No chance of finding them on the garage floor, so the crew will just have to stand on a box!

I suppose they could be scratched, but I think I'll just touch in the spots where they were and move on.
Pete

[stillp]

the crew will just have to stand on a box!

Well, we couldn't have that could we!

That's a handhold from a 1/32 helicopter, cut in half. Not very accurate, but neither were the Airfix ones!
Think it's finished now:

Whoops! Forgot the aerial! I'll put a finished thread up soon.
Thanks for looking in folks.
Pete

[stillp]

Finished thread here: https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threa...2-stuka.39494/
Pete