What is this inside the Ju88A-4 nose?

[Dave Williams]

The boxy structure inside the nose of the Revell Ju88A-4 kit.  It’s not in the A-1 kit, and there don’t seem to be anyway to positively align or attach to the nose glass.  Thanks.

 

[Radub]

Ammunition box for the front machine gun. 

HTH 

Radu 

[RLWP]

9 hours ago, Jennings Heilig said:

That's the frammus modulator

 

Not a Rangemaster?

[Tony T]

Seems like the easiest way of trashing the kit's front transparency.

I intend to omit it should the A4 make its way from the stash to my cutting mat.

 

Tony 

[Shawn M]

flux capacitor or the canouter valve, might be the thingamajig

[europapete]

nah, its the mainbeam underbolt. 

[Dave Williams]

Thanks to Radu, who actually answered my question.  Anyone have any good pictures of it installed, especially from the inside to see how it’s attached to the aircraft?

[Gazzas]

Very hard thing to find.  It made me curious because I'd never seen one before.   IN this pic there is a shadow where it should be.  But not helpful in the normal sense of the word.

 

Mebbe it was only used when the MG=15 was in the lower chin possi?

[Dave Williams]

The guns in the A-4 were belt fed MG81s (and the MG81Z in the C-stand), so they needed ammo boxes and feed chutes.  Whether the front MG81 was in the lower nose, or in the common position of the right side of the windscreen, it still needed an ammo box somewhere, so I’m guessing the location of the ammo box in the kit could be used for either position.

[Lee White]

VCR.

[LSP_K2]

There's a multi-page thread here on details of the Ju 88A-1, but I don't know if what you seek is there or not, nor how similar/dissimilar the two may actually be.

[Dave Williams]

47 minutes ago, LSP_K2 said:

There's a multi-page thread here on details of the Ju 88A-1, but I don't know if what you seek is there or not, nor how similar/dissimilar the two may actually be.

I think the A-1 is different.  It used MG15s with the saddle drums.  To their credit, Revell did change the weapons and cockpits between the two kits.  The A-1 cockpit has stacks of saddle drums around the cockpit whereas the A-4 kit has large ammo boxes instead.

[Wurzacher]

I guess Radu is right. I also thought about an ammo container having seen the  hanlde on the kit´s instruction.

Found this here on alarmy:

 

 

Here is a closer view of how it is attached to the front canopy:

 

 

Seems it makes use of the same triangular attachment brackets as did the compass on the A-1. I had to scratch this in my build.

HTH

Edited February 9, 2020 by Wurzacher