1/48 Ju88A-4 - Mediterranean Theatre of Operations

[javlin]

Looking good Wayne

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking forward to your painting pics Wayne. Like what you've done so far and hope that you can find some time to "git 'er done".

 

[Wayne Little]

Looks great Wayne! Can I ask you... do you have a particular method for masking circular windows?

Haven't come across too many round windows during my builds till the Bv222 John, I chose to look through a bunch of Eduard masks till I found a couple of sets of completely random sheets that contained plenty of circular masks and grabbed them for the Bv222 and any future builds, used one already on the Ju88!
2 of them were for Helicopters and a He219 all 1/72. sure saves on cutting circles that's for sure...

And Terry the Yellow/Amber is what I will run with, i'm sure guttorm said it was used quite a bit.

and for Andy some first paint....to get things moving forward, and the area ahead of the tail is a re-sanded area where i picked up on some seam work that needed some assistance to disappear.

 

[tigerdriver]

looking good as ever

 

[Wayne Little]

cheers Dave, thanks.

 

[Wurger]

 

[JKim]

Excellent paint work per usual! I occasionally run into a need for a custom circle mask and have never found a good way to do it.

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Wayne, and thanks for confirming the amber colour on the lamps.

John, for circle masks, use either a compass cutter or, for circles smaller than can be made with a cutter, various sizes of paper punch, or leather punch sets, can be used to punch out of masking tape or adhesive labels. Also, many sizes of circular self-adhesive 'price tag' labels, or those 'spots' used on wall charts, are available through retail stationary stores, which can be quite useful.
For very small circular masking, then a liquid mask or PVA is probably the answer.

 

[Catch22]

Nice start on the painting Wayne!

 

[JKim]

Thanks for the info Terry! I'm learning so much from people like you and Wayne... such a wealth of experience here!

 

[Gnomey]

Great work so far Wayne!

 

[Wayne Little]

Cheers Guys,

still going on the Brown 79 camo, yet again ambushed a couple of times with work so haven't reached my goal.
I hope tomorrow I can make some time and get the brown done as next challenge is the green and white stripes on the upper surfaces...have laid out a portion of the pattern with some green pastel lightly applied to help the process.

 

[Wayne Little]

Some pics....as I said started to layout the pattern of green/white with some light application of green pastel on the tail and starboard wing

i also got some more Brown done but only stayed in the shed for an hour using up one lot of paint in the cup to cover most of the fuselage and port wing....it was friggin 40C in the shed and it wasn't even 11am yet!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

tried some of the white today and just couldn't get it to go down how I wanted, means extra work to get the result I want so I am doubtful I will meet the deadline...I know its still 12 days away but I will lose this coming weekend going to Melbourne too so that won't help....will see how the process goes time wise...

 

[Airframes]

Hope you get it sorted Wayne.

 

[Wurger]

A time extension for the GB can be needed as usually. No problemo for me. That would be pitty if you couldn't finish the model on time, Wayne.

 

[Lucky13]

Inspirational work as always Master Wayne!

 

[JKim]

Nice paint work Wayne!

 

[Catch22]

Looks fantastic Wayne!