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!!!
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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