
A Corgi JU-88 Gets Wellenmustered
A Corgi JU-88 Gets Wellenmustered
A while back, I took one of my drab two greens over light blue/gray Corgi JU-88s and redid it in a very effective Wellenmuster weave camouflage overlay that was used by JU-88s of I/KG 54 "Totenkopf" in anti-invasion attacks over the Allied beach heads in Sicily and, later, at Salerno. Here's how the model looked originally:

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And here is how it came out after the addition of a sand color replacing one of the greens and the Wellenmuster weave patterns-----plus some weathering and staining effects:

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Here's another view:

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And the flip side:

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This one, I liked the original better.
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I agree, though simply putting the pattern over the original camo may have produced a better look, it disappears somewhat on the yellow, I would like to see pics of the bottom of one painted like that.pickelhaube wrote:This one, I liked the original better.
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It's a freaking annoying scheme... Makes me dizzy to look at. LOL
Great job MR!!! 


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Here's a picture of a real JU-88 wearing this sort of camouflage, guys.

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nice, believe me it is not easy to master that pattern!Epap wrote:Here's a picture of a real JU-88 wearing this sort of camouflage, guys.
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Epap wrote:Here's a picture of a real JU-88 wearing this sort of camouflage, guys.
The Germans used the camo all through the war .But I never have been a fan of it.
The only one that I have seen ( pictures )that I liked was the Stuka night fighter/bomber.
The squiggles were sort of blue and it looked cool.
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I really like the JU-188 night fighter with it, very cool
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The squiggles are the same color as the light blue on the bottoms.
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Unlike its fighters, most of Germany's bombers continued to use the two-green over light blue/gray ( RLM 70 and 71 plus 65 )scheme that was employed at the outset of the war through to its finish. However the squiggles on planes such as the one I created and others usually consisted of the lighter RLM 76, which was used on the sides and undersides of most fighters after late 1941, for the topside and a much darker color----often dark gray or even black for the undersides. This shows up clearly in the photo I posted. German night fighters frequently were painted in RLM 76 over-all, with dark gray blotches or squiggles added on their topsides.