Aircraft:
Junkers Ju 88 G-1
Pilot:
Leutnant Johannes Strassner (8 night victories, 2 on this A/C)
code
4R+AK; 2./NJG 2; Chateaudun, August 1944
I
won’t embellish anything – the building of this model was a little
complicated. Parts of the model were very coarse. I repaired mouldings with two
layers of putty Gunze Mr. Surfacer 1000. The wing has ending bows divided, which
are 1 mm stronger than the end of the wing. I had to thin the ending bows
with the sand paper and then stick on to the wing. One of the halves of the fuselage
didn’t fit the engraving on whole rear part of the fuselage. On the
fuselage it was also necessary to engrave 5 oval covers, which are absent on the
kit parts. I
completed the covers according to the publication Trojca with Ju-88 A-H.
The front
parts of the engine gondolas, which should be stuck in to the cut in the wing,
didn’t fit absolutely. I had to sharpen a lot to make it right. The surface of
the engine gondolas was the coarsest.
The
last bad news was discovered while attaching the canopy. The canopy
didn’t fit well and after attaching it, I had to cement the stairs with the
help of Miliput. In the end I recommend to attaching the divided wings before painting
to avoid of greasy colour from the glue.
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Painting:
The
second step was air brushing the black gray RLM 66 (Gunze H416) to the canopy, which
was covered with the masks from Eduard and all of the panel lines of the kit.
After the black gray dried, I airbrushed the whole surface with light gray
RLM 76 (Gunze H417) diluted with Mr. Color Levelling Thinner in
proportion roughly 1:2-3. I did the painting so that RLM 76 shouldn’t cover
the air brushed camo lines with the colour RLM 66 for making an effect of destroying
compact surface. Immediately after painting the RLM 76 colour to all surfaces,
I added to the remaining colour after painting the basic camouflage, the colour
Gunze H74 Duck Egg Green in the proportion 5 parts of RLM 76, 2 parts of Duck
Egg Green and 7 parts of thinner. I made the colour that way, which didn’t
cover, but only tinted the basic camouflage. This very thin mixture I painted
carefully to various panel lines on the whole kit. That way I gained perfect
destroying of the design of camouflage.
After
allowing the paints to fully dry (I let the kit dry 1 day), then I begun with
the decaling.
The decals are from Owl decals (Die Nachjäger W.Nr. 001") and I attached them with the
help of “waters” from Agama,
because they were a little stiff. I placed stencils from Tally Ho! with the help
of some Aeromaster Set+Sol.
The
camo lines are painted with the colour RLM 75 (Gunze H69), diluted with original
thinner in proportion roughly 1:3. The camo lines are painted even over the
stencils as was it done in reality.
The
final phase of painting was weathering with oil colours. I used the combination
of Payne’s gray, Raw umber and white. I mixed grey-green hue and weathered
with it the whole kit. After it I air brushed exhaust staining with the mixture of
colour Model Master Aircraft Interior Black and Rubber. I used 90% of thinner
and 10% of colour. The last thing I did was air brushing of check-mate paint
Vallejo diluted with the original thinner 099.
The
really last operation was making visible the vestiges from fuel and oil with the
help of splendid preparation Lifecolor Tensocrom. I piled it up with thin brush
and then blurred with the finger in the direction of a flight. I used the hue
Fuel and Oil and sometimes Brown as well. Finally I drybrushed some places with
white oil colour.
Jakub
www.modelplac.wz.cz
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