Junkers W.34 Eurasia III - Converted MPM 1/72nd kit.

 

After a bit of a struggle, here is the Eurasia conversion of the MPM Junkers W.34 into a well behaved civil machine. There were two Eurasia III, one was a gi variant and another an hi according to available material.

For a brief background story of this airline and the step-by-step building article, please go here:

https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2024/03/eurasia-junkers-w34-modified-mpm-172nd.html

This is the second Eurasia W.34 model I have built; the first one can be seen here:

https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2024/08/special-hobby-172nd-junkers-w-34.html

If you attempt this conversion, perhaps the Special Hobby kit of the same plane would be better suited. Some details of course will need deleting from the original kit, and some added, it’s not just a matter of slapping decals on it. Do not use either kit as they come in the box, as details varied from military to civil service (antennas, interior, some hatches, etc.). Arctic Decals has created a beautiful set for the Eurasia Junkers, covering many of their machines. Eurasia recycled the plane numbers (I, II, III, IV, V and so forth) so if one plane was written off, the next one would get its number, so different planes ended up wearing the same numbers. My thanks to Mika Jernfors and Sönke Schulz for the help provided. 

 Here we see a recreation of an occasion when Volkania's "Ze Schrödinger Cats" band played as the passengers were boarding. Or not. They all refused to:

 

The two models: