Halinski 1:33 Ju 88D-1

[smithdr]

Don't know what to add. In awe over here...keep it up!

Dan

[Tonino]

I don't know why I love SOOOOOO MUCH all this little paper pieces!

This cockpit is going to became a true marvel!!!

I feel some "Halinsky fever" raising up quickly ...

[Erik Zwaan]

Thank you once more Yoav, Mike, Ricardo, Gary, Dan and Tonino! Ha, Yoav, yes sir, I will do something with a small light .

But first, the gondola (part 20). This bulky outcrop at the bottom side of the cockpit area is not so difficult to assemble but it is problematic to attach the gondola to the fuselage correctly as the kit hasn't provided for gluing tabs. Also, no tabs provided for assembling the gondola itself and I have noticed so far during the build of this model that most of the joints on the inside and outside skins are at exactly the same location, so no small overlap that could be used as tab. For the gondola I used small strips of 80 grams paper (regular printer paper) to connect the various sides of the outside gondola skin. The transparent parts are thin but with sufficient "mechanical strength".

The internal skins are over-dimensioned and needed trimming for a good fit. For ease of installation I cut the internal skin in pieces which I installed one by one.

The fit of the gondola to the fuselage required some trimming as well and I glued tabs on the fuselage to properly align and attach the gondola. Finally I glued small strips at the fuselage-gondola edge to get a good attachment of both parts at the opening in the cockpit floor. Refer to the arrows in the last two pictures.

At some spots a very tiny gap between fuselage and gondola remained but with a bit of white glue and Tamiya Sky Grey touch-up, it's fully invisible now.

I must confess not really enjoying this part of the model when working on the gondola but when looking at the result, well, I'm a happy man at this point.

Erik

[YOAVHOZMI]

You are dealing with the complexity of this model in an excellent way.

YOAV

[smithdr]

Well Erik...

Your lovely and precise paper shaping, lack of glue smudges, great windows and invisible touch ups and tabs all suggest you are a flying-high expert! Looks awesome from this side of the Atlantic.

Really a great tutorial. Now that I actually have a Halinski kit, this will really help get me ready!

Cheers and have a good weekend,
Dan

[busoramas]

This is what a museum quality is!

regards

[MichaelS]

All that detail!!!

[Erik Zwaan]

Thank you again guys and apologies for my late response. Work is getting busy again and building progress is slowing down. Lots of other things to take care of in real life as well. Whenever I can, I spare the minutes to work on the model but given all its details, one really needs to have time as the tiniest bit of progress requires time, and a lot of it.

Anyway, the next detail is the camera, which is placed in its own tripod. The camera is very small but fun to make. The tripod is made of 0.6mm diameter plastic rod and I used a circle template to get the required roundness. The tripod is very fragile and its legs ingeniously located and glued within the nose structure.

I painted it after installation but how I wished I had done this before installation. Now it required a very steady hand to avoid touching up the wrong parts. Don't drink coffee before such a job as this will make your hand slightly tremble....

Some of the pictures are not so clear due to the high zoom rate and taken late at night.

Cheers,
Erik

[Tonino]

.... speechless ...

[MichaelS]

All I can say is WoW!!