![]() However, this was a major disappointment. ![]() Many thanks to all of you who helped! A little Testors white putty and some CA was used, and after careful sanding, it was corrected. Its curious depth and placement seemed to shout ‘moulding error’, but I wanted to be sure…Īfter consulting various members of IPMS London, it was found that this ‘hole’ in the wing was a mistake, and would have to be filled. The indent in question is seen here on the unpainted wing of the model. Cleary, this was either a strange modification or something seriously wrong had occurred in the moulding process. I wasn’t aware of any dial in the wing of a Stuka… The other thing bothering me was the fact that the indent cut into the main rib of the wing – right where the Stuka’s ‘bent wing’ bends. Also, it was quite deep, and had a circular, raised part right at the bottom, similar to the center of a dial. It was a deep, nearly perfectly circular indent, reminiscent of, for lack of a better term, a cup holder! Obviously, lattes were not the Luftwaffe’s stock-in-trade, so I knew it had to be something else. After I had painted the cockpit and glued the wings together, I was perplexed to find that there was an indent in the wing that just didn’t seem to belong. This was easy to correct, though, with a piece of Dymo tape and my trusty etching tool (which is a pin stuck in an Xacto blade holder).Ī more serious problem, however, was found on the port wing. The right side of a square panel is actually missing. The only problem with the detail is a missing panel line, on the starboard wing. The detailing on the kit includes many beautifully etched, sunken (a nice change of pace from raised) panel lines, as well as hatches, fuel doors and many, many rivets. Turns out, as I’ll describe later, that’s actually not how it worked out. That’s right, this kit can be built either with the cockpit closed or fully opened up! At least, that’s what I thought, since there was a separate 4 piece canopy also in the box. This was of little concern, though, since I was going to be using the other cockpit included. The clear pieces were all very nice, although the one piece cockpit had a major crack right through it. Test fitting the pieces together showed that, like Academy’s Bf-109, the Stuka was going to require only minimal sanding. A quick survey of the cockpit interior alone showed the Academy Stuka would be the victor in a nit-picker’s battle against the Fujimi. The level of detail on this kit is amazing, and clearly light years beyond even the Fujimi. There were 4 sprues of light grey plastic and one of clear, and all of the pieces were exceptionally well cast, clear of flash and drowning in surface detail. I was not disappointed when I opened the box to find myself treated to what I have come to expect from Academy products. ![]() I have the beloved Fujimi Panzerknacker already, but the Academy was rumoured to be even better. When I bought this kit, I was very excited. RecentAcademy kits, such as their Me-163 Komet are widely regarded as being some of the best, and most affordable, kits in 1/72. One of the newer ones is this 1/72 offering from the Korean model company Academy. Due to the importance of the Stuka to Germany’s war machine, it’s no surprise that there have been a ton of kits of the venerable ‘87’ done in a wide variety of scales. I’m not exactly sure why, since very few people would call the airplane beautiful, but it has a purposeful angularity that I’ve always found at least functionally attractive, if nothing else. D and G model) Ju-87 Stuka has always been one of my favourite airplanes. It is an excellent kit, whose biggest flaw is its instruction sheet!. This kit can be built in these markings or as the aircraft flown by Hans Ulrich Rudel, the Stuka’s premier exponent. This is a side view of the finished Academy Ju-87 G-1 Panzerknacker Stuka.
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