Csaba, @pikofix
Thank you very much for posting this picture of Iron Annie. Just recently, I brought back some pictures from my mom's house, and I am fairly certain that I have a few pictures in this group of Annie when she was owned by Martin Caidin. I will have to go digging through the photos and then scan these into our computer. I will post them here once that task is completed.

That's a fantastic picture by the way, probably one of the best I have seen of her. Did you take it ?

From what I have read, I doubt that "Annie" will ever take to the skies again. Too bad, but understandable.

Now I have another question for everyone. What color were the Lufthansa Ju-52's painted in ? I have read where most say it was a very light gray... yet a few swear it was silver. She looks to be a light gray in the picture you posted.

What are your thoughts on this ?

Tom, @tcinla
I hear you... Personally, I'm a Magna Cume Laude graduate from the "School of Hard Knocks". (I had to improperly spell the middle word because it was edited as being a bad word I guess)...Nothing teaches you quicker than a broken bone or two and some stitches...

Sorry about your family problems, Louis (@lgardner). There is only so much you can do, but you can't do it for them. I can sympathize because habits are very hard to break.

@lgardner
It’s a curse having a close relative with addictive behaviours, alcohol or else, like your brother in law does. You can’t get lower than loosing all you had dear in your life to an addiction.
I truly hope his suffering ends soon and may he see the light and the right path again.

Now, here’s a most unusual photo, one that any fellow modeller presenting a diorama based on it would be called several names, distracted being the softer of them all 🙂

During my prolonged house renovations I rediscovered a small book I purchased in one of my trips to Germany, the Flugzeug Archiv, volume 12. That’s were this color photo comes from.
Just a provocative idea for your Junkers model my friend 😉

Pedro you sure know how to punch my buttons ! That’s a great picture and it would really draw some comments at a show. Maybe someday.

I have three of these 1/48 scale Monogram/ Pro Modeller Ju-52 kits. One kit is destined to be wearing the colors used by Lufthansa. One more will be wearing the colors of the Tante Ju planes that served in Spain as part of the Condor Legion. The last one will be painted in typical German Luftwaffe colors that were similar to what I saw on “Iron Annie”. Should I ever get a chance to locate and build a 4th kit, this one shown in the picture is definitely in the running.

Speaking of which, I have found several different pictures that I took of her “Annie” that I was talking about earlier in this build journal. Once I get them scanned I will definitely post them. I have several of her flying in formation with other planes that were there on that weekend so many years ago.

Tomorrow morning is a very important day for us. They are checking Sandy to see if her cancer has returned. God I hope that it has not. There’s a very strong suspicion that it has.

Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Thanks

Wishing all the best, Louis.

Prayers headed your way, Louis.