Roy vd M.

Been looking for German stuff, such as an Opel Blitz or a Kubelwagen... nothing there. Good idea...

Great build! Excellent details..

Meanwhile I've found out that the doors could be opened and closed individually.

Don't know if this is the right thread for it.... but here's my supplier experience regarding Revell. I told them I'd messed up a large part -> 1 fuselage half of 1/32 Heinkel HE 111 kit. I offered to pay for any sending costs etc. Today, a couple of weeks after my request, I received a huge box from Germany with the correct part in perfect shape in it. Didn't have to pay anything. Kudos to Revell!! I ordered the spare at service@revell.de English language is no problem for them.

This is crazy!

Hi all, I was wondering whether the bomb bay color of earlier (pre-1939) 111s is RLM02. Can anyone confirm this? Or should it be RLM66? And would it be correct to present a few of the individual bomb bay doors open, while some others remain shut? Or would the bomb doors be opened and closed simultaneously? Thanks, Best regards Roy

What a beautiful engine.

What a magnificent thread. It's very valuable for those who have been building the kit, those who are building it (such as myself) and also those who'll build it in the future!

Hi Nigel, if you're looking for the 2nd part of the Heinkel 111 Monographies, after much searching (I found only one example for purchase online but it isn't clear whether the rivet schemes are included) I found a PDF here: http://www.pdfmagazines.org/magazines/aviation/38697-monografie-08-heinkel-he-111.html Image quality of the scanned schemes is good but not perfect, the miniest of rivets I'll just copy from Ralph Riese's thread.

Thanks everyone! Tim, thank you for your kindness and thank you for your remark regarding the fabric. I wasn't aware of that... I must say I read part of a book on the BF109 but I wasn't aware that the flaps were fabric covered (thinking about it now, it seems only logic they are... ). Now that you've pointed this out I call this plane, although ready for inspection, 'to be corrected'. It's probably not much work to tape off the plane, repaint the flap and reweather it (and give it a new matte coat). Probably with the Heinkel it's the same thing, I'll go look into it. I used the airbrush for most paintwork, all external work. First I had bought the revel beginners' airbrush system, then after doing a bit of reading I purchased a Badger, then after some more reading I finally purchased a high quality silent compressor + Revolution airbrush set and I'm very happy with that, although I still sometimes have trouble using it. It's not easy for me, although other people find the Revolution very easy to use. Glad I didn't use the other airbrushes

Thanks Jeroen (who is fortunate to live even closer to my main source of modelling stuff: Aviationmegastore :-)) for your kind words but I'm afraid I'm more of a follower haha... I only just saw your own HE111-thread, will watch that while building my own version. I simply adore your JU88...

What a great build!

Thanks for the compliment!! Maybe after finishing the Heinkel in approximately 15 years I'll make a scenery thing for both together, standing in a field or hangar or something. It'd have to be quite a big box then by the way haha

Hi 98Wrangler, I had dipped the canopy parts in polish... first I had sanded the parts (all except the hazed part... (?))... from grids 800 up to 60.000 (!), then I got the floor polish on, then I let them dry, then I masked them, then I glued them. Upon getting the masks off I saw the whiteness. Didn't know what it was until I read that they're superglue markings. Cleaned it up quite a bit by massaging with a few drops of floor polish, but it won't go away completely. I'm at peace with it though, doesn't look as bad as on the first two photos anymore (they were made before I found out what the problem was). The next pictures were taken today. You can see on the one with the Heinkel underneath that the canopy is quite a bit clearer now.

Thanks Kevin and Barry for your kind words. I already feel welcome here! One last thing about the ME: I'm happy with almost everything (if I wasn't happy I'd simply do it again, or restore it, or enhance the scratches I made into something broken etc. etc. but one thing that I've not been able to fully cure is the white shading of the back canopy window... had used super glue for that. I thought I'd read most basic stuff but now I know one should never use super glue on clear parts. Fortunately a bit of floor polish made most white mist go away. But still...

It really is a little plane, compared to the bomber!! I tried to depict a heavily used plane, with quite a couple of scratches, also a lot on the blades, trying not to overdo it.

Thanks! And thanks! My girlfriend has been the only one who'd really interestedly (be it pressurized) taken a look at it until now, so I'm very happy with your approval of the 109.

Hi all, Some 15 years ago I last touched a model kit. I had done some terrible truck 'models' when I was a kid, really terrible; I'm talking not even taking the trouble to sand the sprue residues, one model not even painting. I just wanted to glue glue glue :-) So, 15 years ago I tried it again. I was a student then. This time I got as far as painting a Chevrolet Bel Air 1/24 engine, of course with the pensil. I didn't know I had to thin the paint. I also got a 1/16 Corvette with Revell airbrush thingy and went as far as to airbrush the body, then stopped. So with all this experience I started working on a new project, 15 years later, a Heinkel HE111. But I wanted it to be as perfect as possible for me as possible, being a bit hard for myself. I made a few mistakes and decided to try a Trumpeter BF109 1/32 simultaneously, as a test model. As this model turned out to become nicer than I had thought (for my standards, although I'm in absolute awe of the for-me-unachievable works of art I've seen on this and other forums) I decided to finalize this build first (using an old Revell kit as test stuff instead). i got photos of almost every little step and the numerous mistakes I made, starting with the Heinkel, then over to the Messerschmitt, Heinkel and again Messerschmitt. Maybe I'll make a huge photo thread someday with all those mistakes and things I learned, ideal for beginners such as myself. It would be a bit of a messy thread, as three planes are in there, but it'd still be educational. Here are two pictures of the finished plane:

Thanks Kev, wasn't able to find an introduction subforum so I thought I'd bluntly hijack Nigel's thread.

Hi Nigel, Just wanted to say that your thread regarding the HE 111 is on of the reasons for me to subscribe to this forum. I wanted to choose a forum with a lot of useful information and knowhow and this definitely is it. Other threads are those of Junkers88a1 with all the plane's pictures and of 32SIG with all riveting detailing. I'm a beginning builder who has the good and also bad habit of wanting to do everything as near perfect as possible. I saw the HE111, wanted to buy it, started, then decided I should test stuff, so bought a BF109 Trumpeter, made quite a few mistakes but saw the plane getting nicer than I had hoped so got another box on which to practice, then finished the BF109 and now am again busy with the Heinkel. I saw a couple of things I really wanted on my plane: your ribbing and sides restoration, 32SIGs riveting as well as (trying to) get a nice scratch-free canopy as demonstrated by 32SIGs. Furthermore I already have the Big Ed photo etch set + photo etch M15 barrel sets... have also ordered resin oxygen system and exhausts. Thanks, also to all others on this forum (especially Junkers88a1 and 32SIG) for giving me inspiration. Brgds Roy