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ICM 1:48 JU 88D-1
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ICM48240
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Product Description
| Certainly the most versatile German warplane of World War II, the Junkers Ju 88 in progressively improved versions continued in production throughout the war, serving as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and at the end of the war, as a flying bomb. Despite a protracted development, it became one of the Luftwaffe's most important aircraft. The assembly line ran constantly from 1936 to 1945 and more than 16,000 Ju 88s were built in dozens of variants, more than any other twin-engine German aircraft of the period. Throughout production the basic structure of the aircraft remained unchanged. | |
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| First introduced in early 1941, the Ju 88D-1 was a dedicated photo reconnaissance variant based on the Ju 88A-4. The photographic equipment consisted of Rb 70/30 or Rb 50/30 high altitude cameras and Rb 20/30 low altitude cameras in various combinations depending on the mission. Unlike the Ju 88D-2, the D-1 had its cameras mounted in the fuselage immediately behind the rear bomb bay. In operational service, however, only the two starboard camera were carried, while a prepared rivet pattern on the fuselage underside marked the position for an optional third port side camera window. The Ju 88D-1 featured an optional gasoline fired heater in the camera compartment with an exhaust vent in a streamlined fairing on the fuselage spine. The camera compartment was accessible for servicing through the rear bomb bay. To make way for the new camera ports the FuBL2 Lorenz blind approach radio antenna was also moved further aft. The Ju 88D-1 was able to carry the complete range of bombs or auxiliary fuel tanks available to the Ju 88A-4. The Ju 88D-1 quickly became the mostly widely used Ju 88 reconnaissance-bomber variant. [source: In Action #85] |
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KIT OVERVIEW - ICM 1:48 Ju 88D-1 (48240) |
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| A new tooled Ju 88 in 1:48 has been needed for some time, with our only real option previously being the 1993 Dragon family. It's therefore of little surprise that since the ICM initial release in 2015 their kit has been re-boxed by Hasegawa (2016), Revell (2017) and Special Hobby (2017). ICM themselves have now released nine (9) kits based on the original Ju 88A-5 tooling. Accordingly most of these re-boxes have been variants that were derived from the A-4 (tropicalised, photo-recon and torpedo bomber variants for example). Scalemates provide a very handy 'kit history' feature which shows the origins of any kit and as you can see the latest Ju 88D-1 kit (the subject of this review) has a long lineage of boxings before it, dating back to the initial A-5 kit release in 2015. |
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