Halinski 1:33 Ju 88D-1 - Page 13

**alzictorini** · #**121** 03-10-2018, 04:39 PM

Erik

Beautiful work on the windows buddy, teach me some more.

Respect

**Tonino** · #**122** 03-14-2018, 08:30 AM

Great work with the transparent "nose". You achieved perfect fit and no trace of glue on the "glasses". Not easy at all in a subject like this.

The only regret, as a cockpit lover as I am

, is to see all that great amount of work confined behind a closed - although very wide and clear - window.

**Erik Zwaan** · #**123** 03-15-2018, 02:01 AM

Goodday everyone, thanks for your responses! Just a few remarks at this point:

Dan: Not necessarily UHU but in any case acetate based glue. In Europe UHU is very common and the yellow tube or flask is easily recognizable.

Tonino: No worries, I'm planning to place a small LED light in the cockpit to highlight the details. There is a lot of glazing around and I'm not really afraid that the inside will not be visible after closing. The links that you sent me with the 360 degrees cockpit views are spectacular - thank you once more!

To close the nose job chapter herewith two pictures I actually forgot to include last time. No need to tell you that cutting out the frames needed a lot of care

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Cheers,
Erik

**elliott** · #**124** 03-15-2018, 09:16 AM

What a delicate job cutting out the glazing must have been. Truly, you must have the gift of patience Erik. Marvelous work!

**ricleite** · #**125** 03-16-2018, 07:56 AM

No doubt that those delicate parts are perfectly cut (and assembled, by the way

). It is interesting to note that you followed a very different path to cut the nose frame. I’d tend to cut all edges before starting to take out the white bits and take the part from the surrounding paper. Was it for the (nice) picture?
It was a very good idea to use the formers in order to see more precisely where to cut the plastic accessory! It is a risky task, with such thin framing!

**Erik Zwaan** · #**126** 03-20-2018, 09:59 AM

Goodday gents, time for another update.

@ Ricardo: No, this was not for the nice picture. Usually I cut out the inner white areas first before cutting out the part concerned. I find it easier to keep those fragile frames stabilized this way when cutting. When done I stiffen the frame up with a bit of varnish. This certainly helps to keep it in one piece. For this particular part the cutting went a bit different though, from right to left.

Now that the nose cone is finished it's time to add a few fuselage segments, to relax the mind. Two cameras are installed at the bottom side and one of them such that it's right through one of the formers. The fit is excellent. I tend to install the formers after connecting a segment to the fuselage. In this way there's better control to make a neat joint. For ease of installation I cut a hole in the former, big enough to stick the index finger through, and to properly place the former. As I don't like to waste I close off the hole again when finished....

As it's a long fuselage I reinforced each segment internally with a 200 grams paper liner. This should contribute to a significantly stronger model, given its eventual size. The last segment installed this way will connect to the last three segments which make up the empennage section, including tail wheel well. I have decided to install that entire section later on when it's completely finished.

You may notice from the pictures that the nose cone isn't there. That's because I actually took a break from the nose and decided to install the fuselage segments first. To keep the thread logical I reported just a bit differently

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Cheers,
Erik