JWM Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) Hi, Back to my Germans shelf. I would like to share with photos of Heinkel He 46 E. This is a scratch conversion from He 46 C version, by AML, 1/72. The main difference is in engine - He 46 E has 14 cylider Gnome-Rhone engine, 3 blade propeller and NACA cowling whereas in "C" version it was 9 cylinder single row radial without any cowling and with 2 blades propeller. There was a variety of painting scheme and patterns of Hungarians He 46, which was in use during whole WWII in Hungary as main tactical recconesance airplane. Mine presents machine from 1st Recce Sq. of Hungarian Air Forces during war against Yugoslavia (6th -18th April 1941). Those days they painted cowlings and tails in yellow. Later in 1941, soon after German attack on Soviet Union (22 June 1941) they changed the national insignia into black square with white cross. Perhaps it would be interesting to recall, in context of Hungarian share in attack on Yugoslavia , that Hungarian prime minister Pal Teleki committed suicide on 3rd April 1941 in protest against forcing his country by Germans to joint this war ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pál_Teleki)... Regarding my model - I am not sure about the colours I used. You may find different shades and different patterns on various profiles. Photos. I've seen. all were BW/ I made her in rather lighter shades. The code (F.306) I made as red overspayed green - I've seen a photo or profile like that. In net there is a photo of F.316, where code number colour looks like red if you compare to red part of tri colour triangle of national insignia. However, majority of photos of Hungarian He 46 E showed very dark (black) letterings (the most of photos and profiles depicts F.303) but for earlier period, without yellow elements and with less regular camo. I supposed, that airplanes were repainted (how many times?) during exploitation. Squadron emblems are free-hand paint on decal. Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek Edited August 1, 2017 by JWM Switch to Flickr 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nice one, J-W, certainly not one you see every day! Regards, Jason 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch K Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Superb! What a lovely, unusual subject. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 JWM, Oooh ..You turned out another EXQUISITE looking model... Very well finished... LOOKS AWESOME and love the color schemes, and enjoy the background story attached to your builds..Thank you.. Keep producing the unusual and quirky models that you do..I really enjoy the change... I AM IMPRESSED.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonl Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nice... an interesting subject. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 J-W, I echo what Houston says - please keep showing us your interesting collection! Regards, Jason 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Thank you Jason, Houston, Mitch and Leoni for comments and some other Gents for "likes" please keep showing us your interesting collection! Thank you for that, Houston and Jason - I will. I have not post any of my Japanese birds yet - and this is something like 30 items... .Anyway - we are somwhere in the middle of the whole set . Cheers J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 Today I am rescuing for "H" Among rescued threads on Heinkels (He 115, 114, 112, 51, 45, 60, 162, 170) I am returning to forum (apologize! ) this He 46 e... I hope it will be new for some of us! Regards J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Very neat indeed! Not the usual bird... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 2, 2017 Author Share Posted August 2, 2017 John, many thanks Cheers J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin1967 Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Nice one Jerzy, I have always wanted one of these in my collection, but, cannon win the AML kit on ebay when it appears, please continue to spoil us with your magnificent work, regards Colin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 4, 2017 Author Share Posted August 4, 2017 Many thanks Colin... Me too would like to buy another He 46 to do it from SCW, so with not cowlinged 9 cyliders radial. There is hope that someone will re-issue it before I finish my stash Regards] J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro1 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Nice build Jerzy, do you remember what parts you used for the conversion? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin1967 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 On 8/4/2017 at 0:39 PM, JWM said: Many thanks Colin... Me too would like to buy another He 46 to do it from SCW, so with not cowlinged 9 cyliders radial. There is hope that someone will re-issue it before I finish my stash Regards] J-W Hi Jerzy, their are currently 2 for sale on ebay from someone in Germany for a very high buy it now price if your interested, regards Colin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 22 hours ago, Pedro1 said: Nice build Jerzy, do you remember what parts you used for the conversion? Thank you Pedro, yes I remeber. This is very simply conversion since He 46E use the same engine as He-170 of Hungerian service. I just used engine and propeller from He70/He170 Matchbox/Revell kit. 1 hour ago, Colin1967 said: Hi Jerzy, their are currently 2 for sale on ebay from someone in Germany for a very high buy it now price if your interested, regards Colin. Thank you Colin, I will rather look for this in Polish Allegro service (similar to e-Bay local place).... I am not that much determined... Regards J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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