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Junkers Ju-88 C-6 F1+XM

Luftwaffe 4./KG 76, Taganrog, Ukraine, January 1943

Hello all!

This is my Ju-88 C-6 built for the STGB, built OOB except for a few details from the Eduard Etch set for the Hase kit.

The build went relatively smoothly, apart from my struggles with AK's paints, which I am rapidly falling out of love with. You can probably see that there a few items that are not where they should be (the gondola predominantly) and I'm not sure whether that's HB's fault or mine. But, it looks a bit like an '88 and it gave me a chance to practice some techniques I'd never done before and test out some new products so I'll chalk it up as a win.

Cheers,

Paul

Work in Progress thread HERE

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Thanks all.

Could you explain your problems with AK paints?

  • They didn't spray well
  • Any sort of masking was a dangerous proposition regardless of how long they'd been curing for
  • The RLM 65 never fully cured and had to be sealed with varnish in places.

I don't think I'll be using them again apart from the RLM66 and 02 which performed fine.

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Thanks AtSea. I would have liked to maybe gotten a bit more definition in the upper surfaces (there is quite a subtle wash and some filtering but it doesn't show up well in crappy iPhone pictures) but I was rushing for the end of the STGB...which got extended by a week the day after I finished it. But such is life :) I t was a good chance to try out a lot of new techniques on a cheap kit so it was worthwhile regardless.

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