Ju-88a4 camo question

[jgrease]

Anyone have input on the Dragon Ju-88 kit in 1/48? I'm starting a build on one representing a Hungarian bird. So far as I can see, the decals suck, and there aren't enough locations where the fuselage halves meet for a good join. I plan on working OOB with the exception of resin exhausts and tires. I have a couple of poor-quality images of Hungarian -88s, so if anyone can help out, that would be great. Otherwise, I'd just like some experiences with this kit, Thanks.

John

Edited December 3, 2011 by jgrease

[ThatJeffGuy]

Don't follow the instructions for the wing tips....glue the top-half of the tip to the top-half

of the wing, repeat for lower. This will create a gap on the leading edge of the wing tip that

is easier to deal with than the step that would be created otherwise

Have fun with the gondola. I've built a C6 as well as the A4 and the gondola just bites (2 separate

clear pieces, bad fit to fuselage).

Watch the landing gear struts....they're easy to reverse...check your refs

That's about all I can come up with. If you search the archived GB's I built an A4 for the

Eastern front GB a couple years back

[Jennings]

Try looking for Hasegawa 1/48 Ju88A-4s. I bought mine in Japan in a Hasegawa box. Same kit.

[dsmith]

There are some excellent build reviews on these two sites

Modeling Madness

and

Hyperscale

Cheers,

-Doug :)

[jgrease]

Looking to do that Hungarian -88 I mentioned earlier. It has a temporary winter camo, so how do you do the white? Does one still paint the normal camo and then spray white over it? Anyone?

[Netz]

Yep, Paint the base camo, then lightly start to spry on the white, make it kinda streaky, and light coverage in heavy traffic spots and high wear areas of the leading edges, check your references.

Curt

[Andre]

Looking to do that Hungarian -88 I mentioned earlier. It has a temporary winter camo, so how do you do the white? Does one still paint the normal camo and then spray white over it? Anyone?

That would depend how worn you want your aircraft to look.

Standard application, AFAIK, would be that the topcolors be overpainted with White distemper, apart (usually) from the canopy frames. Ground crew would also carefully paint around the national insignia, unit and personal markings, but with the original colors often showing up as a small surround or, in the case of the swastika tail markings, between the "arms" of the thingy. For a freshly applied scheme you might get away with using white.

For a less pristine depiction, however, I'd paint the original scheme first. The distemper tended to peel away quickly and badly, showing the original shades underneath.

You could either airbrush thin coats, building up the white, and perhaps use the salt method, or drybrush.

HTH,

Andre

[jgrease]

Thanks folks.

[Stona]

Check your references,some winter camouflage was applied at major maintenance bases (the german for which I can't remember and I'm not at home to look it up!) and was not a temporary distemper but a permanent laquer. This started happening in time for the second winter (1942) on the Eastern front.The Luftwaffe had time to plan for it,unlike the first winter before which they had expected to be done and dusted,sipping vodka in Moscow.

There is a picture I remember in one of Merrick's volumes of an absolutely pristine and well finished,belly landed,white Ju88. It may be this one.

Notice that they couldn't be Ar*ed to mask the canopy frames. I know how they felt :)

Cheers

Steve

Edited December 4, 2011 by Stona