Search the Community

Hi everyone, I have been working on this on and off for over a year but a small break from other projects let me finish it. I did not want to compete with the Profimodeller Bomb bay and it was always intending that this set would be for those Ju 88s / 188s using the Rüstsätze B2 extra fuel tank in the 2nd bomb bay. I can find no clear photos or factory confirmation on what doors / panel was fitted when using this conversion - at first glance one would assume that a panel like the forward bay - when used for fuel - would be employed with its three fuel venting points but the B2 could not use these as the centre frame is in the way so my guess is that this conversion used what ever was on hand - 4 or 2 door set up. Anyway I have finished the test shot of the PE today and will make sure everything fits as it should. I also started making the fuel tank which will be a resin item. Best wishes, John

Hi everyone, thanks for all the encouragement and support along the way, Thanks to Chris and Steve for photos as well. I might try and get some photos taken with a nice field in the background instead of my garden wall but it 24 in the shade at the moment and there is not a cloud in the sky so photos will be terrible not to mention the model might melt or fall apart on the way thanks to our wonderful Hungarian roads which are world famous. Enjoy and thanks for looking and you know what to do if you want to buy anything

Hi everyone, I can not resist any longer - I want to make something for myself so I am saying goodbye to my Me 262 A-1a/U3 in test shot configuration and want to finish it. I only have the MBI title and photos from the internet and a myriad of builds of this Trumpeter kit so think i will be ok. Only made one other 262 in my whole life and that was the 1/72 Revell kit but reading the builds on this site I can see what is ahead of me. I bought a few goodies to help me along - looking forward especially to seeing what my AIMS Rb 50/30 cameras look like with clear 5mm lenses bought from Modelling tools.co.uk. My only hesitation or 'dead-zone' so to speak is that I am tempted to model a bird with Mk 108 in the nose but I have never seen evidence for where an ejection port would be for this centrally mounted weapon (just above the nose - not in its center as per MBI title drawings)? Not to worry - will most likely end up modelling solid white '2' with the painted nose cone and no weapons

Hi everyone, another budget set sent off to the printers today - just the main details / skins needed for the wheel bay area only so you at least have some nicer skins to the bulkhead fore and aft as well as the missing former. Best wishes John

Hi everyone , a bit late for the party but I got a little sidetracked with conversions right from the launch of the Revell kit - as a result I may have missed the boat with sales of this, anyway thought I would provide a 'budget' little PE set in case you do not want to spend almost half the rrp of the kit on some excellent PE by someone else. RRP TBC but I think perhaps £7.50. Apart from engine controls the set really only adds things that are not there rather than refine them. Best wishes, John

Hi everyone, just sending this off to the printers, 32PE003 Luftwaffe gun sights, containing 4x VE covered and 4x uncovered VE sights for MG 81 / 131, 2x V41 sights for MG FF / MF 151 , 6x MG 15 front and rear sights plus ammo and covered belt feeds for MG 81 / 131. Ideal for Ju 88 and He 111 kits Retail £7.50. Look I know the Master products are far superior but if you loose a sight or if you are on a budget and need some gun sights this maybe is for you. Don't know why I did not do them earlier? The belt feed covers look more like USAF and indeed I hope so as you need to be able to twist them a lot to get into the shape you want. The idea being that you lay inside some rubber band, close the PE over it - twist into shape as best as possible and then coat over with thin PVA so it fills in the gaps and the PE then looks more like the ribbed effect you get on the real Luftwaffe rubberised feeds - or you just use the un-realistic ammo belts to show at least something lol! Anyway hope this helps, best wishes from your friendly ex-pastor haha

Hi everybody, sorry it has taken me so long and special apologies if you only recently bought a Ju 88 G-1 or a Mistel 2 but I have finally managed to find the time to hollow everything out and give the customer less work to do. So now the warhead weighs much less and the flanged flame damper only needs a little more thinning and pops straight on to the rear cowl - whats left of the exhaust stacks providing suitable spacing and attachment points evenly all around.

Hi everyone, If you love Mistel's and you bought from me at some point in last few years the Mistel 1 set you will have noted that sadly I never managed to do the Bf 109 special bulged canopy. Well thanks to 3D printing I now have one that I am busy polishing up ready for clear resin casting - will also be doing in 1/72 but that is another story haha. I will also be re-launching the Mistel 1 set with the air scoops and larger radiator housing as these 109 F's seem to be hybrids. I knew about the radio hatch being moved forward but had never studied the lower nose before. Obviously if you already have the Mistel 1 set and you just want to buy the extra parts that is no problem. Will post when all is ready, thanks John

Hi all, Just to let people know I have started on the Ju 388 conversion. Engines being turned by a friend whilst I start on the structure. As you will know I have a number of parts already in stock thanks to the Ju 188 conversion I did a few years back but there is lots to do. 1. Can anyone provide me with photos of the seats? I have seen the excellent ones in the 1/48 scale kit but would like to see for myself if poss. 2. The cooling fan and thus engine cooling ring look a greater diameter than that on the Fw 190/ Ju 88, I would love to be wrong but any observations welcome. Here is the start of the Bodenwanne in Balsa wood. Need to varnish it and gradually make the grain disappear before filling and detailing ready for a vac form mould.

Hi guys, been doing something for myself recently - namely finishing a Mistel 2 I started when I first launched the conversion, need to get on with some other things now so it might be a while before I get on with the Fw 190. I also cannot find any primer here in Hungary akin to the Halfords primer i was used to in UK so i am a little stuck. Hope you like anyway.

Finished last year, just prior to Telford.

Hi everyone, For some time now the problem of how to display all the Ju 88s and 188s I want to build has existed - in order to capture such a variety of camouflage applications (my main interest in the aircraft). Such a collection takes up so much space in any scale. The most obvious choice to me was to simply leave the wings off - but did I want them on again and built and painted well enough to slot back on and off or did I want to make the fuselage without the moulded on fillet area of the wing root? if I went for this option the model would look more realistic but that realism would only be maintianed if the model was then mounted on a factory dolly. I decided in the end to go with the latter option and worked from many photos to try and get photo-etch set designed to represent the wing attachment points. That done I set about blanking off the hole left in the dissected kit parts minus the moulded on fillets. PE should be here any day but I have made up a test shot ready. I think it looks better like this so even if I do not keep the realism by making a factory dolly - and instead use a wooden plyinth and brass pegs - it is still a good option for how to make a number of the same models. I can always decide now to make the main version as complete models and and others I like as fuselage only models? Anyway I do not have a price yet but if this appeals to you also let me know There are obviously many ways to skin a cat (not that I ever would) - here is just one way that keeps the strength of the parts at all times and allows plenty of space at the end to paint cockpit. I dissected the fuselage into three parts, built up the rear fuselage and added roof part and some locating tabs to surround of rear fuselage. I then added one side with front bulkhead in place, followed by the floor. The other side can then be put on followed by the inner cockpit sides to the front dissected fuselage parts - cockpit side walls need amended as they have detail designed to sink into the cavity of the moulded on wing root. Cockpit can be built up in a way that suits your painting of the sub assemblies.

HI everyone, just sent this off to get a test shot, together with my 32PE001 Me 262 'Engine set' I hope this 'wing set' will give you all the options you will like in how to display the Trumpeter 262.

Hi Everyone - I don't seem to be able to leave a post or a message to Peter any more on the LEMB site? Maybe you get locked out if you do not use enough or something? Anyway I am trying to research a marking and getting nowhere fast. Its the badge seen below the cockpit on Ofw. kielig's Ju 88 G-1 Wk.N. 710865 of the Nachjagdstaffen Norwegen and was left in Norway at the end of the war. As you know badges on G-1s or G-6s are rare indeed with only this one and the badge on D9+PH known to me. It does not match any other badge in my book of unit badges and if it is a personnel emblem then i fear without a clearer picture then I will have to forget it. Message me if you can help - thanks John

Hi everyone, This is at a company called Hauler in Czech Republic (they used to do or be??? Extratech) Hope to have it back soon and give you an RRP. Best wishes John

Hi all, Well I have not built a model for myself in about 5 years and I thought it was about time I carried on with this 1/48 Dragon Ju 88 G-6 which I started back then. I used my own AIMS PE interior and the Quickboost Berlin radar nose. If I remember correctly I was so cheesed off with all the filling needed that I gave up. Well sprayed some Alclad Primer over what I had filled and rubbed down today and would like to get some brake lines located and the cockpit masked off ready for my last tin of Halfords Primer. Ok now I am in Hungary and don't have a supply of Halfords Primer anymore what do people over this part of the world use? Thanks

Hi everyone, making my own 262 and borrowing the amazing JaPo books made me unable to resist doing a dedicated Me 262 reccon decal sheet which is now off to the printers (Fantasy printshop). Due to the pics in the JaPo book I discovered that not the W.Nr. I had provided on my decal sheet 32D007 for 'White 33' was incorrect in many ways. I have thus been able to re-do it - photos are everything when it comes to decal design. Anyway I hope you like this and will want one when available. Now on to something else hehe! I love my job! PS I do have a master on the go for the unique camera fairing on 'White 3' and these sheets will also be in 1/48 and 1/72 for those interested and still have eyesight! PPS on the sheet there are some made up W.Nrs. for those aircraft where it is not known but you want to put something on it

Hello! Planning ahead my next years modelling budget and dreaming of new projects. If I want to try an AIMS conversion for Revells Ju-88, which one would be a good point to start this kind of conversion sets? I am familiar with resin ond PE, but have some major trouble in regards of clear parts. To fit them proper as well as to keep the transparencies clean (from glue smear and fingerprints). Vacu canopies should add more problems due to "flimsiness", "multipart" and "lot of masking required". Any suggestions to choose wisely to avoid the snags and to enjoy an AIMS coversion set? Regards - dutik