Decal hunting (He-111)

[EirikB]

Hello all.

As i mentioned in the introduction section I am taking up this hobby after a 25 year break.

And I have spent the last few Corona-months well, ordering/buying kits so that I have a few "in stock".

I got my hands on a Monogram Heinkel He-111 H5 - 1/48. Beautiful kit with photo etched parts and a detailed resin cockpit.
However I do want to make this kit to a specific aircraft from 1B+OH from Wekusta 5 that were stationed in Norway. They had both He-111 and JU-88 and flew up to the weather-stations on Spitsbergen during WW2.

1B+OH landed on the sea ice near Longyearbyen and broke the landing gears. Eventually it went through the ice and ended up on the bottom of the fjord.

 

 

I have lived most of my adult life in Longyearbyen and fascinated by the local stories from WW2. Thats why I want to make this specific arircraft.

To my surprise I found that Xtradecal actually have made decals for 1B+OH, but for 1/72.
http://www.hyperscale.com/2016/reviews/decals/x72248reviewmd_1.htm

 

I have not found a similar decal kit for 1/48, is it just me being rubish at searching or did Xtradecal make this only for 1/72?
If so, are there any decal kits out there with letters suited for Luftwaffe markings on the He-111 (in 1/48)? 

 

Wekusta 5 had a green badge with a frog with wings - at least on the JU88s. Maybe they did not use it in the He-111.

Eirik

[Richard502]

One iteration of the Revell He111H (1:48) decal sheet has got a "1", "B" and "H", plus a "3" that could be used as a starting point for the "O". No trace of the Wekusta-insignia, of course.

Richard

[JWM]

There is in UK a small company Fantasy Printshop which do codes letters in different colors as well as for example this set for He 111 (1H+BB)

https://www.fantasyprintshop.co.uk/shop/aims-111-48d010/

The Wekusta badge is like that, in He 111 should be 

You may do the home made printed decal from that one, the white wings required a white background on model (decal or paint) below badge...

I googled such photo I think also from Svalbard:

Maybe you can try to play with it (brighness, contrast) to see if there is a badge below the cockpit. 

I think those places you know since I found them very fast:

 

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/05/19/wekusta-weathermen-of-the-wehrmacht/

http://www.warcovers.dk/greenland/wekusta5.htm

 

Few years  ago I did Do 26 used for evacuation of German meteo base from Greenland, after it was attacked by US bombers and Danish troops!

There is book on those German activities in Arctic

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/german-meteorological-activities-in-the-arctic-194045/E10556B5D524018A213A92BA3EA65246

 

Cheers

J-W

 

 

[fubar57]

This company makes decals for Luftwaffe subjects: numbers, letters, emblems, National markings, etc....https://www.peddinghaus-decals.de/1-48-decals-for-planes/?language=en

[EirikB]

Thanks for valuable information.

The picture of the He-111 is from Banak (Lakselv) in northern Norway.

 

Here is an image of a JU-88 with the Wekusta 5-badge