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Shropshire Scale Model Show

14/4/2019

 
Last weekend saw the SIG travel to the RAF Museum Cosford. We were lucky to be placed next to one of my favourite aircraft, the FW 190. A chance to collect a few more images for the walkaround page was taken.
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we were in a busy spot opposite PM Models / Flory Models, who were themselves nestled under the wing of the Ju-88.
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thanks to all the SIG members who contributed to the display ands thanks to the organisers who put on a splendid show.

Junkers Ju-52

13/4/2019

 
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© IWM (A 4154)
With the Revell Ju-52 getting a welcome re-release in 1/48 scale I've been doing a bit or reading around on the subject. The aircraft really does deserve the moniker of workhorse.

Tante-Ju naturally played a central role in our transport special at SMW 2018, although I have to admit the the Gigants, quite rightly, stole the show.
There is neither the time or space in a blog post to do the Ju-52 justice, for now I've collected some archive images from Crete and Tunisia. There is quite an extensive collection of images in our walkaround gallery, with plenty of engine detail on display in the RAF Museum Cosford.

Kreta

Operations in Crete were supposed to be the Zenith for the Ju-52 and the Fallschirmjäger but with 150 aircraft lost and the paraschute troops taking heavy losses and failing to capture any of their objective in the first day.
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-166-0512-39 / Weixel / CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 141-0828 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia
Despite severe losses operations in Crete were ultimately successful but no further en- masse airborne were undertaken by the Germans.
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-090-34 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L19017 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia

Afrika

North Africa was another theatre where the Ju 52 performed vital work flying supplies across the Mediterranean. The slow Ju-52 was to suffer heavy losses to allied aircraft.
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-545-0614-21 / Seeger, Erwin / CC-BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia
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© IWM (TR 884)
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IWM (CNA 710)
In the image above, RAF Regiment inspect wrecked Junkers Ju 52s and other German aircraft in a scrap heap on El Aouina airfield, North-east of Tunis. A collection of image below from the Library of Congress show a series of wrecked Ju-52s at El Aouiana airport in Tunis, Tunisia.
​For a look inside the box of Revell's latest re-issue here in a review from Flory Models.
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    The German Military Aviation
    ​Special Interest Group
    The Luftwaffe SIG Newsletter online edition written by SIG Leader Nathan Robinson.

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