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Hi everyone, I now intend to bring this Breguet 693 to completion. It was started in a previous Heller GB, and is still nowhere near the 25% threshold. So here it is. Some photos of the kit; Since then, I managed to get a PE sheet so full of small parts I am not yet sure where they all go. Bottom line I spent time on the fuselage inner structure possibly for nothing as everything is on the PE fret. Oh well. So little of it will be visible when the half fuselages are glued together that nobody will ever see my shoddy job. So here we go, another kit to finish in 2025. Very possible, as I am only entering three GBs this year. It has taken me a long time to finally understand what had to bee done. Have fun with Heller kits!!! JR.
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Hi everyone First and foremost I want to wish all B'mers a peaceful and happy 2023, with a lot of modelling fun. I start the year with an unreasonable opening gambit: with all the builds that are mounting on an overflowing shelf of doom, I am starting a Breguet Br 693. In my eyes it is a very sexy aeroplane and I have some decent documentation, so why not. This was a Christmas 2021 surprise arrival from Pat, aka @JOCKNEY. Thanks again Pat! So it has been started on January 1st, a fitting date for such unreasonableness. This is a kit from the famed Heller Musee, that made the days of young kids throughout the French Empire throughout the seventies. This Breguet shows its age, as there is absolutely nothing inside: no cockpit at all, no engines, no nothing wherever one looks! So I have decided to improve the front and rear cockpit a little bit, even if nothing much will remain visible considering the quality of the clear parts. Likewise the outside will be engraved Here are a couple of photos showing the utter emptiness . The good thing is that there is the same amount of work whether one wishes to build a 691, 693 or 695. I will gently stick with the 693. The men piloting them in operations during the battle of France were insanely brave. Thanks for watching. JR
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Hi, From mine deep archive of French airplanes - three old Hellers: Amiot 143, Breguet 693 and Bloch 174.... I made them many years ago - Amiot comes from my school years (I think I made it in 1976 or 1975), Bloch 174 and Breguet 693 are from 1992 and 1993. Before posting them I just washed them and added as usually fresh coat of Vallejo Matt varnish, which apparently is a rather satin, not complete matt. Amiot 143c is in markings of GB II/38, France 1940: Breguet 693 is in markings of training unit of Regia Aeronautica, Oran, March 1943. She wear overpainted Vichy markings, the machine belonged before to Gr 1/51. There was an mistake in ilalian markings (not mine, but in 1943 ) - The fasces on wings are not mirror-symmetric, but all one direction. Bloch 174 is in markings of GR II/33 1e Esc., Tunis, Ai-Aouina, 1941-2, pilot Sgt. Joannic (decals from drawer, some hand painting like pilot name or emblems on tails): Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek- 44 replies
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I'm looking at starting a 1/72 Breguet 693 ground attack aircraft using the Mistercraft (yes, I know, I couldn't locate an original Heller) release soonish. (After I finish my Airfix rag wing Hurri.) I plan to use this as an exercise in scratch-building and kit mangling that, if things go badly belly up, will be no real loss. (Mistercraft remember?) One undesirable aspect of the kit is that the Gnome-Rhône 14M radials that power the little beastie are represented by simple blank plates with a central circular plinth for attaching the prop assembly to. I'd like to be able to substitute a somewhat more detailed alternative that might charitably be regarded as a more realistic representation of the donks in question. Problem is, I'm certain I lack the skill to be able to scratch build accurate little 14 cylinder radials from evergreen sheet and bits of sprue and wire... I've had a bit of a look online to see if there are aftermarket Gnome-Rhône 14M engines available in 1/72 and have not found any. I've had a few other ideas such as (somehow) sourcing engines from the old Airfix 1/72 Hs-129, cannibalising an old FROG Oxford for its Cheetahs (to simply represent the front bank), buying a pair of 3D printed A-S Tigers from Shapeways and filing them down a bit and so on. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I shall start this GB with the three tin bombers/recon aircraft of the Vichy Air Force. The Kits, Smer LeO 451 Heller Breguet 693 Heller Potez 631 Pics to follow
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I shall start this GB with the three tin bombers/recon aircraft of the Vichy Air Force. The Kits, Smer LeO 451 Heller Breguet 693 Heller Potez 631 Pics to follow
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I shall start this GB with the three tin bombers/recon aircraft of the Vichy Air Force. The Kits, Smer LeO 451 Heller Breguet 693 Heller Potez 631 Pics to follow
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