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Thanks all. Wayne, you're scaring me!
Soooooo....precious little detail info out there on this bird. This is a model I wanted to depict as accurately as possible but the lack of solid info on the cockpit configuration is frustrating. Granted, much of the detail will be obscured through the glazing, the only unobstructed view being from underneath through the access hatch but even the larger stuff that will be seen seems to be controversial. I have found the closest relevant photo evidence to be in the Profile Publications #148 - The Ju88 Night Fighters by Alfred Price. There are no cockpit pics of a G-6, the precious few shown being from the captured G-1 "4R+UR" which was captured after inadvertently landing in England and a G-7 with a late experimental radar set. In Hartmann52's excellent build here: http://ww2aircraft.net/forum/start-to-finish-builds/junkers-ju-88g-6-ju-88a-1-revell-aims-set-1-32-a-41134.html our old friend Erich points out that the radar equipment in the cockpit was moved from the forward facing position on the lower right of the instrument panel on the G-1 to a rearward facing position on the G-6. The kit includes the former location as well as a seat facing forward to view the radar display. All of Price's pictures show the forward facing position, including the G-7's but he keeps referring to these pics as the "radio operator's position" which was actually a different position facing aft. I have seen no pictures of a G-6 arrangement, though Erich maintains that some exist. If that's true, I would love to see them!!!!
Anyhoo, unless someone here can show me a definitive setup, I'm going to stick with the kit's arrangement.
junkers88a1 at LargeScalePlanes.com said:thats a tricky one..they cahnged equipment more iften than i can change my underwear..hehe just kidding..
but i only have a piucture of the FuG220SN-2 box positioned in the back near te radio and one only sees small portion of the radiowall with what i belive is a FuG 16ZY next to it. will see if i find it..have it soemwhere..
and it had the FuG17 tail warningradar.and it had the EZ6 anteanna so that means instead of the SL and SK box it should have the EZ6 box where the SL box is ..and the SK3 instead of SK..
but then it was also later equipied with FuG 220 and ten FuG 218neptune,then FuG 350 Naxos..and finally the FuG 240 Berlin..and many G-6 caputred by the allies had a whole bunch and mixs of FuG`s and its eems it was all impovised after what they got their hands on ( as Werner von Baumbach said in 1943 ( general der Bombers ) from now on impovisation is the order of the day !!! so getting a really good clue there on how they was is not easy..and sime had the FuG220 SN-2 placed on the radiowall and some had it up front in the nose.. the picture i have shows it back by the radiowall..
But i am not an expert on the G versions..i know the A1,A5,C2 and A4 as the inside of my pocket,, but after that its kinda loose ,,just bits and pieces i have.. but i will do some research with a friend of mine who collects radiuoequipment and hear what he know about it
and i can post the picture of the 220 SN-2 if interested..