Subject: Re: October 29th Turkish Republic Day
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Tayfun Gerdan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:05:45 -0700

Hi Tayfun,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks for sending it in.   

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com
 
Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tayfun Gerdan 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 10:03 AM
  Subject: October 29th Turkish Republic Day

    
  "1/72 Plastikart Junkers G 24" 

  by "Tayfun Gerdan"
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  When I first saw some of the pictures of this aircraft I was really surprised. I had never heard of a Junkers G 24 in the Turkish inventory. After some investigation I found out that this plane was never commissioned neither by TuAF nor TuAL although it was marked with Turkish flag. It was all part of a marketing operation of Junkers Factory. Junkers was trying to sell of these planes to TuAF and one plane was painted in this demo pattern and sent to Turkey. The plane was never commissioned by TuAF, although it flew in these markings between 1925-1927, more than 2 years. 

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  First of all, this more than 20 years old kit isn't as bad as it sounds. I saw many worse kits, produced in the last two years. The only problem were the decals, which were in a real bad condition. And I solved the problem with "building the kit without using decals". Yet again, another uneven surfaced Junkers to be masked and painted!!! 

          
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  After completing the construction it was time for painting. I painted the model overall silver, using Tamiya's X-11 Enamels. After the paint cured, a dear friend of mine, Ahmet Donmez added some post shading, using different shades of silver,white and black enamel mixtures. 

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  Now the most difficult part was to come. Masking... After the wings were masked I painted the wings and the rudder with Tamiya XF-2 white. Then I cut the stars and moons off tracing paper and added them onto the model. The flag areas were painted red, a mixture of Tamiya's XF-7, X-7 and a couple of drops of X-18.

  Well, it was kind'a fun to build this model. It was completed in ca. 25-30 man-hours. 

  The photos are taken by Turhan Gungor, who also helped a lot with the research.

  Tayfun

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  Photos by Turhan Gungor and text © 2003  by "Tayfun Gerdan"