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Kg26 He 111H-4 scale 1/48


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This is one of my Battle of Britain projects. 

This is a model of a KG 26 plane that was in the 15th of August northern raids. It was shot down into the sea, but the crew survived. 

The plane is an H-4 which carried the it's bombs on external racks. 

To achieve this I have used the ICM He 111H-3 kit and taken the 

external bomb rack part from the H-6 torpedo bomber kit.

The 'M' is a home made decal.

Sorry I forgot to turn the wheels onto their flats for the photo session. 

To see more images use this link.

 

He 111H_4 image 30

 

He 111H_4 image 26

 

He 111H_4 image 25

 

This Hurricane flew against these bombers in the raid. 

 

He 111H_4 image 23

 

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9 hours ago, Elias said:

Nice Heinkel!

Did H-4's took part in BoB?

Yes the early H-4's were used in the northern raids. Some of them were H-3's that were converted. The reason for this is they needed to put an extra fuel tank in where one of the bomb rack were. In fact I have done this on the model. If you look at the two side on shots you will see one side shows the inside bomb rack and the other side appears to be blank, which is infact the side of the tank I scratch built and installed. 

 

The paint is Mr Hobby Aqueous H64 for RLM71 and H65 for RLM70 for RLM65 I used H418. However, I find their RLM65 is a bit dark for the BOB period. On the Ju 88A1 

I have used Tamiya X23 with some white added. It feels more realistic. You should see this next week. 

 

Thankyou everyone for the nice comments. This in fact has been a long build, most likely about a year.

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