Halinski 1:33 Ju 88D-1

[Tim Crowe]

Great work, especially on the windows

Tim

[Tonino]

WOW what a wonderful model is coming out! I always wanted to embark on a Halinski project... this thread is a strong push toward it! That cockpit is really a piece of art. I love detailed cockpits!!!
Keep going, I'll be sticked to this thread!

[smithdr]

LOVELY job, Erik! This is a fun one to watch. Your attention to detail is awesome.

Keep going!

Dan

[Styrian Spitfire]

Hello Erik ,

wonderfull , thats the art off card modeling .

Kind regards from Austria ,

Kurt

[ricleite]

Very complex work on the glazing. Nice I guess that those “flat” panels are not included in the canopy accessory, unlike the nose. Is that so?

[YOAVHOZMI]

Precise and clean work Erik

YOAV

[Isaac]

I went to the USAF museum in Dayton ( on my way home from work ) and snapped a few pics of their Ju-88 version.


Here if you need it.




Isaac

[busoramas]

What a fantastic model to build, clean progress, and @ Isaac - lucky you to have a museum near your home to see this birds.

regards

[MichaelS]

Looks great so far.

[Erik Zwaan]

Hi guys, thank you all once more, I'm pleased you like to follow this quest.

@ Isaac: Thanks a million for taking the effort to make a few pictures! No doubt they will be very useful at some point in the build and I've kept them in my reference folder.

@ Ricardo: Indeed, no flat clear panels have been provided, only the canopy and the "bee's eye" nose dome. I used some cellophane from a cake box, the thinnest I could find, otherwise it would be difficult to process.

Christmas and New Year's holidays are over and it won't be that easy anymore to report regular progress, but nevertheless, here is the instrument panel part no. 10.

It can be built in a simple form and in more elaborate version, with glazing for the 17 instruments (part S4 to be used). I didn't use S4 but drops of clear paint gloss instead, which is easier to apply.

Firstly I used the tip of a hobby knife to cut out the small circles, the technique is like dotting the knife as if you were a pointillist style of painter. Or Kindergarten style if you so prefer, but then a bit more sophisticated.

After edge coloring a second layer was glued behind the panel, with the details of the instruments and then the third layer with the rear side details. Finally drops of clear paint on each of the instruments.

Finally the instrument housing. Although I hate to say it, these details are a bit too much I think - they will hardly be visible. Anyway, Halinski provides such kind of details and I simply can't resist them, so there you go. Building a Halinski model has its conditions one cannot ignore.

The difficult part is to install the panel inside the cockpit, as the accessibility is limited. It took me some time to finish the job and I applied the glue drop by drop.

Note that the thickness of the instrument panel should be around 0.6mm, which is exactly three layers of paper (not from the thinner pages, which is approximately 0.1mm).

The most important instrument, the magnetic compass, is still missing and will be installed later.

Cheers,
Erik