Ju88A

[Clint Mitchell]

Initial work on the weathering:



Cheers

Clint

[Kakukk]

It's awesome

[Baron]

Clint!
You have done an amazing job! Impressive detail! May I ask where did you get the references for the cockpit facilities?
Cheers,

[Clint Mitchell]

Kakukk, Simon thank you for your kind words. Did you have a nice holiday Simon? Skiing?

I have been working closely with a guy who pulled a 90% intact A-1 from a lake in Norway still covered in 90% paint and 100% original markings. Even tiny maintenance markings unknown since the war. It was a frozen lake used as a temporary run way but the A-1 got left a little to long in the spring time so the ice melted and the Ju88 sunk to the bottom, didn't crash so still in good shape. Also books I've probably bought every Ju88 book there is available I think. Amazing stuff how little was known about this aircraft and how completely wrong all drawings are. He has also recovered an A-5 (in Berlin now I think?) before this one with many major and subtle differences between the 2 again wrong on all drawings. AeroDetail book is ok for some details, got to be careful though with trusting these they even have the rear gunner/radio operator's chair installed the wrong way round.

Yesterday I got some more photos of the cockpit containing more detail which I've got to put in the cockpit to update my profile. Little things like the curtains in the cockpit could be turned around white on one side for the summer and green on the other side for winter (strange way round but the white helped reflect the sun to stop the cockpit heating up too much in the sun, must have been like a green house above the clouds) so all winter camo profiles showing white/cream curtains are wrong. Fire Extinguisher, etc.

Should be some very accurate profiles of the A-series when finished.

Cheers

Clint

[Clint Mitchell]

Updated the cockpit details. That should be it now? Now just finish weathering and add Glazing then move onto wing/engine/undercarriage etc.

Cheers

Clint

[Aircraftprofiles]

Stunning ! Simply stunning ! Did you try out the bleaching technique or did you come up with something that looked better ?

May i suggest that you make the surface a little wrinkled. I think that was quite common among those older aircrafts.

...and what about rivets ?

[Clint Mitchell]

Rivets, Yep about 20 million of them. Gonna do them before the wings. That's gonna take some time they are already drawn on another vector file ready to import. As for the rippled effect I very much want to show this but I'm waiting to see what the rivets do to the highlighted areas and look of the skin first it may give the same effect if not i will work something out. I'm going to have to try your technique from a different angle my drawing is not set up as individual panels (which I will sort out on other profiles). So I'm going to have to create the selections manually (Time).

Cheers dude!

Clint

[Baron]

stunning! great detail work! I think you should reduce the opacity of the panel lines. look too strong to me. weathering also looks fine!

Cheers,

[Aircraftprofiles]

If you have the basic shape of the aircraft in one layer and the panel lines in a different layer, you can just merge to two and then you can select the individual panels. (remember to make a copy of the basic aircraft shape layer and the panel line layer before merging the two !)

I look forward to future progress !

[Clint Mitchell]

Bleach Effect I like, a lot! I've reduced the panel lines slightly also cheers Simon.


Cheers

Clint