The Little World

Remember I once wrote that you should make a model of anything that you model? Well here is a prime example provided by Italeri in their moulding of the Junkers 52 – the interior fitments.

As you can see a fair amount of the interior through the large rectangular passenger windows, I figured it would be wise to do as much sensible work on the cabin as i could. I will not buy photoetch or resin aftermarket details kits but the provided mouldings are quite enough.

Research showed that there were several choices for the upholstery – the wartime ones that retained transverse seating seem to have had several shades of leather. In this case I decided for a warm russet with silver trim and a dirty footprints on the cabin floor. Lets be realistic – it was in wartime service.

This is one of the times when I bless a spray gun with an easily cleaned cup – it encourages me to use it for routine work and saves a heap of time in the end. I tend to stick repeat parts on long cardboard racks and spray them in sequence.

I suppose that if I ever get to do a large passenger air liner I might be persuaded to run LED bulbs into the cabin to heighten the after-dark look of the thing. But then I’d be tempted to the nav lights and the warning strobes and in the end it would look like a Star Wars project…