Tumbling Dice Ju 52 - part 1

Tumbling Dice Ju 52 - undercarriage conversion & detailing

Tumbling Dice makes a Ju 52 transport plane, which is a nice little model.

As presented, it has the early landing wheel arrangement, where the main landing wheels are covered by "spats".  Once the Ju 52 was used in combat, it was found that the spats were very easily clogged by mud, etc.  So most Ju 52 planes in World War II had the spats removed.

The following series of pictures shows how I converted my Ju 52s.  I hope that it inspires you to have a go!

We start with the original casting (below) and a shinier one above that has been brushed with a suede shoe cleaning brush.  I do not own any suede products......

So, if you have got this far, you now have a Ju 52 with the most common version of the undercarriage.

Part 2 will detail the top half of the plane......

Flames

Here is how I make Flames for putting on aircraft to show damage.

You will need "modelling" pipe cleaners, which come in various shapes & colours.  

Discard the ones you don't need (my nieces were really pleased with the cleaners I did not want) and keep the black and white ones that look like this:










Make them into a "hook" shape:
















Paint each smoke plume at the "hook" end with red and yellow paint (Good old Humbrol Enamels.....)








Apply to your victim...!

In this case, a 1/600 Tumbling Dice B-17 G 

First Post

Welcome to my blog.  This is all new for me, so here goes!