[muesingman]

...is amongt the poorest things I´ve ever seen. While the plane for itsself looks fantastic, I had to ask myself why the canopy was removeable - removing it just reveals the deep, deep NOTHING, if I may say so... And so, I decided to unscrew the plane and then I inserted the cockpit interior of an Italieri Ju-87 D-5 kit. The result is - of course - still far away from being perfect, but I think it still looks much better than what HM provided originally.

[Cruver Collecter]

You did a nice job on that cockpit. How hard was it to take the plane apart to do this project?

[muesingman]

Originally Posted by Cruver Collecter

How hard was it to take the plane apart to do this project?

In German: "Ging so."

In English: it was just a little bit more difficult than unsrewing e.g. a Corgi plane. There were two differences:

1. The bomb had to be removed carefully first in order to

2. gain acces to the front srew cover plate. This and the rear plate were (unfortunately) fixed with glue, but again I was lucky since I was able to remove them without damaging.

Next, the glue remnants had to be pealed out of the screw´s heads, otherwise You might slip off with Your mini-screwdriver.

The thing that HM meant to be the cockpit interior plate consists of plastic. It was no problem to cut the front and rear plate off and to insert the Italieri plate among them.

The rest (repaint and reassembly) was easy. Just a little trouble to make the pilots fit into the cockpit, but that was worth it.

[Cruver Collecter]

Originally Posted by muesingman

In German: "Ging so."

In English: it was just a little bit more difficult than unsrewing e.g. a Corgi plane. There were two differences:

1. The bomb had to be removed carefully first in order to

2. gain acces to the front srew cover plate. This and the rear plate were (unfortunately) fixed with glue, but again I was lucky since I was able to remove them without damaging.

Next, the glue remnants had to be pealed out of the screw´s heads, otherwise You might slip off with Your mini-screwdriver.

The thing that HM meant to be the cockpit interior plate consists of plastic. It was no problem to cut the front and rear plate off and to insert the Italieri plate among them.

The rest (repaint and reassembly) was easy. Just a little trouble to make the pilots fit into the cockpit, but that was worth it.

Thanks for passing on the information, your end results look great.

[William]

The German pilot seating in the Ju-87. It also fits the gunner seat well.

These pilots will also be used for the next BF-110.

[Cruver Collecter]

I like it the HM is upgrading the cockpit detailing.