Re: what's the Best Paint scheme for my Ju-52

Feb 20, 2006 7 Replies
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> Would you Aircraft guys help me out yet again here another time please. >
> I'm just about ready to put the paint on that Ju-52 i'm building. The
> instructions call for it to have RLM-71 and RLM-62 over the top surfaces
> and the fuselage. Then is calls for RLM-65 on the bottom.
>
> Are these pretty much correct or should they be different colors all
> together. Why and where was the "yellow" used on the wing tips on the > underside.
>
> Thanks very very much
>
> ... Carl ..........

FWIW I think the majority of 52s were RLM 70/71 upper surfaces with 65 lower. This would apply to the parachute drops over Belgium in 1940 and the drops over Crete in 41'. However the early ones (Spanish Civil war) would have been in 61/62/63 uppers with 65 lowers. I believe one of the pro-modeller versions gave this color scheme. I have never seen a 52 in desert scheme. If there was a floatplane conversion kit to do one of the aircraft that attacked the bridges over the River in Holland you might have a 72/73 over 65 scheme. I would love to do that conversion, but those floats???


Bill Shuey


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snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (cyberborg 4000) wrote in news:3539-43FA3159-2298 @storefull-3111.bay.webtv.net:

Yellow wing tips were I beleive Russain front specific id markings.

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If you,re talking 1/72 scale, theold Airfix kit of the JU-52 had the float option as well as spats.

Regards

Pat Macguire

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I thought they used He-59 seaplanes for that

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(William H. Shuey) wrote: " . . . If there was a floatplane conversion kit to do one of the aircraft that attacked the bridges over the River in Holland you might have a 72/73 over 65 scheme . . . "

Yes , i've seen once before where people were talking about those Big Floats. My next Question is. Just where can you get those Big Beautiful Floats for the Ju-52.

... Carl ..........

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Didn't JU-52s sometimes have yellow engine cowlings and rudders?

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Yellow underside wing tips designated an Eastern Front aircraft usually accompanied by a yellow band around the rear fuselage. Some aircraft had yellow noses and tails but I doubt a Ju 52 ever did.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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