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| Swedish Ju52's had the wing engines mounted parallel to the fuselage instead of pointing outward so to build one I had to alter the wings. This method I will use on the single engine Ju52 too. First I removed the fairings on the wings. |
| Plastic card replaced the fairings and the corrugated pattern were removed around this. |
| 0,4 mm plastic rods from Plaststruct was used to rebuild the missing corrugation. |
| The same was done on the underside of the wings. As there isn't any true airliner Ju52 kits I have to convert the civilian kits. The Italeri kit has cargo doors with windows but they can't be used for a prewar airliner. As it is a hatch the windows will be placed lower than the rest in the line and the corrugation has a finer pitch than the one on the fuselage. |
| To fix this I removed the corrugated pattern on the hatch and cut off a piece of the top of the hatch to get the windows lined up to the rest. This mean that a piece of plastic needed to be add at the bottom. Part of the corrugation was removed on the fuselage around the hatch. I made it a bit random so if I don't manage to blend the new parts in perfectly it would not be a straight line visible. I imagine that it would be easier to hide the seam this way. |
| With the new piece in place it was time for filler. I use the standard Tamiya putty as I need something that the glue will stick to/dissolve. I am using Ethyl Acetate when building but any glue that melt plastic would work. |
| The missing corrugation was then rebuilt using 0,4 mm plastic rods from Plastruct. This is another model than the previous picture. It is a very early Ju52 with a wider and lower door at the rear so this is why it look different. The corrugation also runs lower on the fuselage. A door needed to be added behind the cockpit. |
| Back to the first kit. The corrugation on the doors have a finer pitch. For this I used 0,3 mm plastic rod. A file was used to form the new parts to blend in with the old corrugation. I dilute putty so it can be brushed on to smooth everything out. |
| The result. It's not 100% perfect but one needs to look close to find the joints though? The same method was used for the missing pattern under the fuselage. |
| The new door. Here we are back to the early Ju52. It had more corrugation on the nose. |
| But sometimes one can get lucky. On my Ford Trimotor conversion I found plastic card with a matching pattern. I don't have the package left but I think it was V-Groove Siding #4030 from Evergreen. |
| Stockholm September 16, 2016 |  |
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