Hello everyone, I'm Tony, when I was designing my glider series, I always thought of: Musger MG19B. Maybe it's because I was deeply attracted by the works of the French model master Vincent in the magazine, or maybe it's my interest in continuous design and I was tired of making gull-wing gliders, and I was deeply attracted by this aircraft with straight wings and smooth lines. Its color is so dreamy, I was planning to make a green Scheme Musger from the beginning.

The overall design follows the style of the glider series, so many parts of the kit are similar to the DFS Kranich. It is worth mentioning that the canopy is too complex to model. We spent a lot of time and finally got a satisfactory mold.

1 The design style is similar to Kranich

2 Resin material mold

3 Canopy made of PETG material have greater flexibility and light transmittance than PVC

Next I made the fuselage part. Due to the design of the jig, the fuselage was built on a flat plate. For the stringers I used pine strips instead of the balsa strips that were often used before. The battery mounting bracket at the bottom of the cabin has been additionally strengthened by adding two pine wood strips below it so that it is not easy to tear off the base when removing the battery.

At 1/6 scale, Musger's body is much larger than Minimoa and minimoa mo2a, with a length of 135cm. This also means that he has a huge cockpit space, enough to accommodate large-capacity batteries and other equipment, as well as 1/6 doll figures

4 Building the fuselage on the desktop

5 Pine strips

6 The fuselage structure is completed

The next step is planning. I can't wait to see the effect of installing the blister canopy, so I first made the canopy part and painted the gray paint to seal the wood in advance.

7 Canopies

There is no particular difficulty in planning the fuselage. I will explain how to make a beautiful wing-fuselage transition/fairing separately in my blog. It can make our work more like a masterpiece.

Two methods are introduced here. The first method is the wood filling method. The joint is filled with balsa, which is then worked using a special wood carving knife that has a rounded edge. It is worth mentioning that this requires skilled sharpening techniques, and when you mastered, the entire wing-to-fuselage transition will be done very quickly.

8 Carving knife

9 Fill the balsa block ahead of time

10 After cutting and polishing

The second method is the common filling method, I use my DFS Kranich II 1/6 as an example. We need to fill the wing-fuselage joint with putty and then sand it. Here are some tips, first, before filling, I used masking tape to mask off the surface outside of the filled area. Then, use an oil painting scraper with a rounded edge (of course you can also use some other handy homemade gadgets to complete this step), so that we can control the shape of the putty to be close to the final shape at the beginning. After all, polishing the putty will be a rather tedious job. Ordinary putty filling shrinks when drying, so it is almost impossible to get the final effect perfectly in one time, and we need to repeat the filling one more time. Here is a tip for homemade ultra-light putty: it is made of ultra-micro fiberglass balloons (a new white powder material) mixed with epoxy resin. Its advantages are 1. It will not shrink violently after drying, 2.light Weight

11 masking tape

12 Painting scraper

13 Filling putty

14 After polishing

Let’s back to our musger mg19, when we finished the frame work, we need cover it with fiberglass at a thickness of 0.1mm. Then fill the putty, finally paint with primer and surface paint.

15 Musger mg19b with minimoa

16 The one below is the Musger in its finished state with white primer.

While the primer was drying, I started building the wing, which has only one main spar, no flaps, and no gull-wing angles, which made building the wing very quick.

Install web

18 Main structure completed

   I used aramid wire to reinforce the boxed structure at the root of the wing spar. Due to the size limitations of the kit box, the entire wing spar is spliced into two sections, so I also added additional reinforcement to the spliced joints. Saturate the wrapped aramid thread with epoxy resin

19 Reinforcement of spar box

20 Reinforcement of inner and outer spar

In the whole process of making the wing, the spoiler part was the most challenging, but I enjoyed the process very much. After all, what could be more fulfilling than making an exquisite linkage device by yourself? Then covering the wings with balsa wood chips, and iron the heat-shrink film

21 Spoilers Painted Red Ahead

22 The wings are covered with balsa

23 Wing coating completed

After making the wings, our fuselage primer has completely dried, and we can start painting the fuselage. Because our primer is white, so for the fuselage Scheme, I am going to use masking tape to cut out white patterns. After placing the masking paper in the correct position, then spray the green areas, so that you only need one spray process

24 Decals Parts

25 Paint spraying, I used a pneumatic spray gun

26 Awe-inspiring moment: the masking tape removed

27 cockpit details

   For the canopy, the real aircraft has a small movable window to prevent the hatch from fogging. This small part can make the model look more vivid. Instead of using glue, I made a small tool: using a pin. Tie a pin to a wooden stick, then use a lighter to heat the needle, and then use the needle to poke the rivet position. The high temperature will burn the two sets of plastic pieces together. This method is more stable than glue, and there is no trace of glue.

28 small ventilation windows

The Musger has a storage space in the back seat and our kit was designed this

29 movable hatch

30 Draw a first aid kit logo

31Drawing completed

32Instell movable hatch

   Now, our cockpit no longer looks empty, but it seems that something is missing, yes, I think it is the seat belt set. Our range of gliders, starting with the Kranich in late 2022, are equipped with seat belt kits.

33 Seat belt

34 The edge of the front canopy is wrapped in anti-collision leather

Next, as the day for takeoff got closer and closer, I chose a sunny and breezy day.

35 Ready to fly

36 The whole build took me three months and I enjoyed it.

37 Waiting to take off

38 Green is highly recognizable in the air

39 The spoilers is very effective, and it is worthwhile to spare no effort in building

The Musger mg19b project has come to a successful end, and when it soars into the sunset, all the fatigue of production will be forgotten.

Note: Musger Musger mg19b Kits are sold exclusively in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria by distributor Pichler modellbau. If you are located in the above countries and regions, here is the link to purchase.

Achtung: Musger Musger mg19b Bausätze werden in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich ausschließlich über den Händler Pichler Modellbau vertrieben. Wenn Sie sich in den oben genannten Ländern und Regionen befinden, finden Sie hier den Link zum Kauf.

https://pichler.de/erwin-musger-mg-19-b-steinadler-golden-eagle-pichler-modellbau