**** DONE: 1/48 Ju 88 A-4 - Winter War / Eastern Front WWII

[Wurger]

I would say ... RLM66 for the cockpit interior and all areas covered with glass conopies. The rest of surfaces of the interior , e.g.. the fuselage interior , engine covering - the RLM02.

 

[Donivanp]

Cool thanks every one.

 

[JKim]

Should be a very interesting build with all of the aftermarket goodies. Is that a vacuform canopy? I've always wondered how those are utilized... i.e. how are they cut from the backing?

 

[Donivanp]

Is that a vacuform canopy? I've always wondered how those are utilized... i.e. how are they cut from the backing?

Yes it is part of the CMK cockpit set, It's not super hard to work with really. there are a couple of ways to cut form the main board. first is to cut straight down and then sand the rim. That is not bad unless it is a large part. second and best (to my way of thinking) is to cut around the edge of the part at a steep (45 deg or steeper) and it save the sanding for the most part.

 

[dneid]

Looking forward to this one, Don. You just might motivate me to drag my Ju-88off the stack. And, Ii do like that bellied in dio idea (better you than me!)

 

[Donivanp]

Well I have been remiss I guess. I started yesterday after getting the Kingfisher posted.

I was not sure if I wanted to use the add in cockpit from CMK, I am not a big fan of PE and it was really testing my nerve looking at all the little PE parts, The Carpet monster is calling for a sacrifice already it has gotten one. After trying out the kit cockpit and comparing it with the CMK, CMK won hands down. There simply is not comparison between the two, I doubt I will use the Vacume form canopy and nose though. There are some things the kit is better at. The guns will be from the kit for instance.

I started with step two which was to build the aft fuselage first. As I mention the carpet monster ate a small plug for the aft of the aft fuselage. I found it three times, the forth it was fully gone. First time I was crawling around and though it gone and found it stuck to my knee. Well any way, I cut a section of sprue and stuck it int he hole and be done with it. Damn near lost some small clear parts.

I attached the tail wheel mount as instructed but did not put on the tail wheel. I was trying to avoid this as I have had too many broken over the years and I don't like to attach anything hanging off till the last moment. I wanted to avolid the clear parts as well but I could not see how to avoid them, I like to paint and then put on clear if possible. The DF antenna has a clear housing and there are two antenna insulators aft of that as well as one on the bottom left side of the fuselage.

I then started the kit cockpit to see how it looked as it did not look too bad in the parts tree. Just a little showed me to be right in buying the CMK. I started by painting everything a healthy coating of RML 66 and will start to deatil from there. So here we are.

 

[Wurger]

Not too bad.

 

[Crimea_River]

Doin' OK.

 

[Wayne Little]

Cool!

 

[Lucky13]

Good stuff!

 

[Donivanp]

Engine controls were driving me batty! I hate tiny PE and though I thought thy looked good, between tweezers pop offs (parts flying out of the tweezers as I tried to put in place) and just plain frustration and loss of the PE. I got my DREMEL out and modified the CMK to take the kit controls.

 

[Crimea_River]

Coming along well though, despite the pings.

 

[Wurger]

Agreed.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Doing good mate and between you and me, there's a lot of model debris floating around in cyber space.

 

[Donivanp]

Getting a little further.

 

[Wurger]

 

[JKim]

Nice cockpit! I also have a horrible time with those small PE parts!

 

[Crimea_River]

The control column and pedals would have all been RLM 66 like the rest of the pit. Otherwise good.

 

[Donivanp]

Thanks Andy, I had just put them in and not painted as yet, the tan is the resin color.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Good effort Don.