Thanks for your comments guys much appreciated.
Have now got the fuselage interior painted, and decal applied to the instrument panel. I made a mistake with the floor colouring initially, painting it a pale brown colour in readiness for some oil paint to represent wood. However, a bit of research revealed that the floor was corrugated metal, so it was repainted gunmetal and then had some brown airbrushed on the area's that had boots trampling over them.
I used a mix of RLM 02 Grau mainly on the interior, the fabric seat bases being a pale brown to represent canvas. I used a mix of black and grey to pick out the radio boxes and some dots of white, yellow and blue to represent switches and lights. Once painted the whole thing was given a coat of Kleer, then when dry a wash of brown oil paint to highlight crevices/shadows. When dry a final Matt varnish to tie everything together. The masking from the windows on the insides removed to show the bare metal foil masking still in place on the outside.
Finally the fuselage interior glued in place and the fuselage glued and closed up.

Quote from: cph64 on April 15, 2026, 04:36:52 PMA balsa chimney? How will you get the plastic to coat it?

I would probably use a talc and superglue mix, then sand it so its as smooth as glass.

Quote from: MSea on April 15, 2026, 09:51:21 AMNot for Zak he would even get the damage to the hammer head in his model - its only 1/700 and you know his skills but what would the engineer look like     

Have you ever thought of being a 'life model?'.........    

A great result Chris, well done!
You always give that little bit of extra information with your builds which shows that you do your homework on the subject you are modelling.
Nice Job, next please..........

This should be an interesting change for you. Watching with interest

Perhaps he could rewrite history, and Titanic didn't sink and was saved by the engineers!!
Though how he could model 10lb lump hammers in such a small scale might be a challenge too far........!

You are a busy person. At £5 who could blame you for not resisting.
Interested to see how you portray your Titanic.

Hi All,
Moved a bit further with my Ju52. I have reduced the benches on the fuselage sides and have now added some radio boxes to the fuselage bulkhead. I have also lined the gunners position, and given him a floor from the cabin to his position.
Some cabling added inside fuselage just to busy things up when viewing from open door.
A bit of a chore with the engine exhausts for the centre engine. As can be seen one has been tackled, thinning the pipework and opening up the end of exhaust. I used a small drill to open the exhaust, going in vertically, then gradually using a more horizontal approach to create the opening.
In the cockpit I have made two control columns, and added some representation of cabling runs and instrument boxes, which will be picked out during painting of the interior.
Some pictures of the above, thanks for looking

I remember the old Airfix Seasprite, but this one looks really detailed.
Watching with interest.

Quote from: zak on April 12, 2026, 09:17:53 AMHMS Broadsword F88 - type22 frigate and HMS Antelope F170 - type21,  now complete.
The top view is for Kevin, to show the relative sizes of the ships.

Hi Dave, 
Thanks for including a shot from above showing both together so I can compare the differences between them.
They look very nice and great additions to your growing fleet.

Will it have an overall grey colour scheme?

Is that a shade of sand?
Nice overall colour.

Looking very good together. Surprising to see the difference in beam of both ships despite being similar in length.
A super collection being created.

I think it maybe. Just wanted to try it out to see the result.

Another go,