As a nine year old, I remember the Airfix catalogue listing their 1/72 scale Ju88 as their premier model, having so many parts...but I couldn't afford it on my 1 shilling per week pocket money. When I first moved to Canada soon after, the first model I bought was the Lindberg Ju88 in "whatever" scale. It even came as advertised on the box, with a FREE display stand! So I've always had a thing for the Ju88.
Taking a break from my WnW kits, I've just finished an ICM 1/48 model of the Junkers 88A-5 (actually built from the the A-4 kit which had all of the parts needed). A fellow modeller from the US kindly sent me the much-needed decals to make a Battle of Britain example from 4./LG 1 based in France in August of 1940. In the cockpit I added a few home-made seat belts from thin lead sheet & copper wire, and also some MG15 gun barrels from Master. Realizing how much work was involved with the canopy masking, I also acquired the Montex masks for the canopy which aslo included the masks for the markings...so I used those too. Painted with Tamiya acrylics and weathered using acrylic, pastel chalks and diluted oil paints. I posed it with a set of ICM 1/48 Luftwaffe characters, which I've used previously with my other projects (Do.17Z & Heinkel He.III-H3)
Cheers!
The first model I ever owned of the Ju88, and built in 1966. Back then the box top served as a painting guide - but who needed paint if the plastic was green?
The ICM kit of the Ju88A-5 with the only Battle of Britain markings available
The completed model displayed with some ICM figures (painted up a few years ago) which had served duty with several of my BoB German medium bomber builds.
