This is my little model Stuka which I got about a year ago. I'm making a model of a larger one but as I have no experience with making models I have no clue if it will turn out decently or not. If not, at least I have this nice one and a much larger one I bought.
A Stuka Story: My husband and I had taken a group of high school students on a field trip to a museum in Chicago. We hadn't been in the museum for very long, and we were walking along in one of the main general areas, when suddenly something caused me to look up. And there, hanging up near the ceiling, suspended in the air, was a complete and authentic JU-87; a Stuka! My heart started pounding away so loud I thought I could hear it. At that moment everything else ceased to exist for me. There was nothing on earth anymore except for me and that beautiful airplane. Ignoring where the rest of our group was going, I went up to one of the top stories so I could get a closer look at it. And that I did. I walked around the plane for so long, looking at it and studying it from every angle, lost in silent communication with this living and breathing piece of history. It really was almost as if the Stuka and I were silently sharing something, a give and take between us. I wanted so much to touch it and to get inside of it but I couldn't do that because it was too far from my reach. But I studied each inch of it, scanning over the surface like I was committing it to memory. By the time I had to leave that area and meet up with the rest of the group I felt that the plane and I knew each other.
This has happened to me with other original Third Reich items and I've also heard from various other people that they've had similar experiences themselves, so I know I'm not alone. It's as if these objects have some kind of residual energy, and for those of us who resonate in this same area, when we look at the objects it's as if we sense a long lost musical chime coming from them, that we can get in synch with. And this is not just romantic and artistic people like me who've said this but even tough, no-nonsense Waffen-SS re-enactors and the real vets who fought back then. I think it really is possible that these objects from those days carry over an energy that can be picked up by people who are sensitive to it. After all; didn't the Führer touch many items to the Blut Fahne to consecrate them? Our original people were very aware of the psychic energy that "relics" carry and I think remembering this and making use of it can be of great benefit to us too.
I need to get some help with the big model though. It is perfect except the darn wings won't go all the way in. I'm going to get an expert in putting planes together to take a look at it so I don't accidentally break it trying to force them in.
Yes, they are so beautiful. I saw an original one in Chicago at the Science And Industry Museum. They have it hanging up near the ceiling. It was captured in North Africa during the War.
It almost looks like it's a part of the paint. I just got a new Stuka, that I almost have put together now, so I'll put up a photo of that one too when it's ready.
best gullwing dive bomber
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