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Thanks Jeff, look forwards to seeing your Zwilling. I haven't seen your Connie, is it on BM? 🤣🤣 Brilliant Colin! Thanks Tom, as much as I enjoy weathering models, my OCD means that the garage door will need to stay clean! That said, my son has an old sports car so it gets real exhaust stains when he reverses up to it! Managed to get it finished today, without drama which doesn't happen very often! It's now in RFI Thanks to everyone for following. Other than finding it an attractive aircraft, I knew very little about the He-111, so this has been a great opportunity to find out more about some of the the subtle differences in variants and service. Since taking the pics, I've added the rods that stick down in from of the radiator intakes. I can't remember what they are (drains?), but they're on now made from alloy tube! Thanks

Just finished this today, an enjoyable build although it fought unexpectedly in a few places. I was drawn to the white cowlings, tail and even wheels on this one, the decals coming from an Xtradecal sheet and painted using MRP lacquers. I've been quite restrained on weathering other than the exhaust stains. There's a few inaccuracies in decal positions and the width of the white bands on the main wheels, but overall, quite pleased with the end result. I'm tempted to build a small diorama around it at some point. I think this is the first German aircraft I've built since before beer, ladies and kids entered my life! The build is below: Thanks for looking

Stunning paintwork and weathering

A build too nice to forget!

It's funny how we see domestic colours through the lens of military names! Here's our 1/1 scale garage door in RLM65 🤣 Just realised I need to put that poo bag in the bin! Back to 1/72 scale, the masks are off. Somehow there was a bit of residue on the inside of the canopy so I had to pull the pilots hatch off to get inside with an ear bud. All sorted now. I also painted and fitted the wrong exhausts, so need ot paint the correct ones now! Fitment of those side windows is questionable close up! Getting there slowly. I realised that Airfix have included a decal for the white ring on the tail wheel, that saves some thinking capacity on how best to do it, so just the main wheels to sort when I get there. Cheers

Stunning Tom, love the scheme you've chosen too.

Just caught up Bruno, yet more amazing detail. Somehow, as I read through the transparency woes that you was encountering, I knew that you'd win! It's a bit like watching a film knowing there will be a happy ever after!

Great use of the tissue!

Thanks Jeff. I've got a Hasegawa (well Hobby2000) one here so might do it in such a scheme, need to do some research. Thanks Chris Lol, I'm still learning the schemes on these! Thanks James Thanks Tom, quite happy with them, after researching RLM65, I realised my garage door and front door are pretty much this colour 🤣 Thanks Colin, it's a signature mistake 🤣 Thanks mike, it is a lovely looking aircraft That was my fear too, in fact after getting the paint on, I still had that concern, but weathering and decalling has blended it in more. Between last night and a couple of hours this afternoon, I got the decals finished, varnish on and weathering done! Happy with the look so far, but that worries me as it means there is an impending setback due! I've kept the weathering fairly restrained. It's all soft pastel other than the exhaust stains, they were airbrushed on and from photo's I've seen were often quite heavy. Most of the stencils were toned down by a light overspray of the base colour and additional weathering. Next steps will be the undercarriage and props. Cheers

Thanks Kev, I'm not normally one to get too hung up over colours as they can vary more than modellers feel comfortable allowing for, but do like to study photo's to understand how they looked new and how they looked when worn. My knowledge of the German stuff is quite limited so really enjoying the learning curve and found reading some posts on here and other places very useful. I deliberated quite a lot over the shade of RLM65, definitely a can of worms! Thanks James Started on the decals last night, this thing has as many stencils as an F4 🤣 I only came across a photo of the real aircraft after applying the fuselage codes (typical approach that causes self inflicted setbacks!) and the spacing of the codes isn't quite correct. The G & P should be spaced out and the spacing between the cross and letters slightly less, but I followed the Xtradecal guide. Cheers Thanks, me too, breaks the dark colour up a bit!

Hi James, The MRP 70/71 look good, quite pleased with the results. Been doing a few bits since the last post, mainly masking! Never took too many pics, but masked the lower areas up then sprayed RLM 71. Here it is masked ready for RLM 70 to go on. I do like the straight camo lines, the Germans must have considered us modellers in their marking designs! Only took about an hour to mask the upper areas off. And with all the masks off. This is the bit that I dread! Fortunately, very little paint bleed. After masking the lower areas, I went over the mask edges with RLM 65 to seal them up, this appears to have done a good job. I've decided to go with the markings for 6/KG 26 based in Italy, summer '43. The white ringed tyres also give a little interest although not looking forwards to painting them! The contrast between the 70 & 71 is quite low so (as the real aircraft appeared to be) quite happy with the MRP paints. The 65 looks quite grey and quite dark in the photo's, but much less so in real life. Cheers

Brilliant!

What a great post! The finished results are incredible, but the additional build shots help to give appreciation as to the additional work involved.

Must have missed this first time round, superb build. The window decals really add to the realism you've achieved.

A lovely tribute with some great builds Alan, I didn't know he'd passed away.