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Some things take time, some kits too! Don`t know how long this kit was waiting beneath my stash pile?! The Heinkel He 100 is in fact a tremendous and a pretty aircraft. Hope one of the new or old Hightech modelling brands will release this kit sometimes in better quality! At very first let me say, this kit is mainly a "Do it yourself" kit and you will need a lot of patience and endurance. I hope the result will deserves the effort. The cockpit, built out of the box, lacks a lot of details and is in some cases truly wrong. I`ve found two pictures of the original cockpit. It is possible, that this two pictures represents close up pictures of the russian export aircraft. The original presumption, that the He 100 cockpit had similarities with the one of the He 112 is completly wrong. (Source: Heinkel He 100 Record Breaker, Erwin Hood) The cockpit is painted with RLM 02. I`ve used Acrylics from JPS Colours. Sadly this brand is no longer available as I`ve heard! The entire kit is completly rescribed and I`ve engraved new rivets too. Therefore I`ve used a tool called Rosie the Riveter. http://www.victorymodels.com/petr-dousek-rosie-the-riveter-riveting-tool-0-75mm-1-32-1-48-double-pdr04d.html Please have in mind, the fuselage of this kit is about 1 mm too narrow. I clued a matching sprue between both fuselage halfs. The upper and lower exhaust fairings are scratch built too. The exhaust pipes are the origin Tamiya Bf 109 E pipes. Both wingtip position lights are not provided. As you can see, I`ve scratch built a new airintake on the nose front and a new oil cooler. In fact the most, if not the complete small parts have to be scratch built by yourself. Greetz Dirk
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Here at last the pictures of the finished model. Before I glue my models on to the final bases, I allways like it to pose them in front of my lil hangar and take some pics. The link to my WIP thread of this model you will find here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234954601-heinkel-he-100-gpai-hipm-148/ Hope you like it. And here are the pictures with the model glued on the final base.
