Heinkel He111 H-3

[John Huggins]

Hi all & welcome to my thread.

Now building planes just ant my thing, i dont know why i just dont like building them.

After a short stay in hospital my daughter bought me not 1 but 4 planes to build while i am resting at home :smile5:.

So not wanting to upset her i thought i'd make a start this weekend, so this is how far i have got.

Added one or to bits to the cockpit & made some seat belts out of some old surgical tape i found in the draw.

Time to get the old chuckle mussels going & have a good laugh at my expence.

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Ok now all i need is to get my eyes back in focuse this 1:72 scale a bit taxing on my eyesight.

All comments welcome

John.



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[papa 695]

Hi John to say you need your eyes testing that cockpit looks fantastic i dont think you will have any problems building the FOUR planes and making a great job of them

 

[Vajled]

great job so far... keep it up

 

[Plastickitbasher]

That cockpit detailling is fantastic, keep up the great work

 

[yak face]

Great work john, take it easy and get well soon , cheers tony

 

[andyrobs]

Hi John, great work so far mate nice detail.

Cheers, Andrew

 

[mossiepilot]

Nice work there John, the detailing of that cockpit is great.

I'm sure you'll make a brilliant job of all four.

Tony.

 

[John Huggins]

Thanks for all ur kind comments, what type of camo do u think would be best ??.

John

 

[AlanG]

Thanks for all ur kind comments, what type of camo do u think would be best ??.John

Battle of Britain colours? RLM 70/71/65

http://cs.finescale.com/FSMCS/forums/t/137497.aspx

 

[John Huggins]

Thanks Allyne nice model & well painted, i will keep it in mind.

John

 

[BarryW]

Brilliant cockpit at that small scale...

 

[CDW]

for saying planes aint your thing John, thats a tidy start to a build mate!!!!

 

[Dave W]

Good detail in that cockpit for 1/72 scale.Looked at the link for that BOB HE111.Quite a big difference in the Shades of green RLM71 and 72.I built a BOB Stuka recently and used Xtracolour RLM71 and 72.I found the colours to be very similar.Superb build though.

 

[John Huggins]

Did a little more last night & boy is this one going to need some filler, but thats the bit i like.

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Im not imprest with the quality of this model, there is a lot of cleaning up to do on most of the parts, spent 2 hrs cleaning up the landing gear alone & the fit is very poor, but i will persevere.

John

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[yak face]

Judging by the sink marks and flash ,id say this is a very old tooling john. If the cockpit is anything to go by though , im sure youll make a cracking job of it, and its always satisfying ,getting a great result from a , shall we say,"challenging" kit !! keep up the good work mate , cheers tony

 

[AlanG]

Looked at the link for that BOB HE111.Quite a big difference in the Shades of green RLM71 and 72.

That's because it was RLM 70 and 71 lol

 

[Dave W]

Allyne.As my teenage daughter would say 'Whatever!'.A slip up on my part,As you well know i meant RLM 70/71.That will teach me to read my typing before posting!.

 

[AlanG]

Sorry Dave i couldn't resist it

 

[Dave W]

No problem.I've got a sense of humour.You have to be careful with some of the 'delicate flowers' on here though!.

 

[John Huggins]

Before i start the filling i thought i would give it some flaps.

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Hope this is not a bit OTT.

John

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