Mark's Workbench: Heller 1/72 Liore et Olivier LeO451

[AliGauld]

27 minutes ago, 2996 Victor said:

Erm..... c'est du bon travail j'ai le Viagra en commande 

 

À votre santé,

Mark

TMI..........

[opus999]

16 hours ago, Heather Kay said:

It was the law, I think.

Indeed!  Amiot 143 anyone?  

 

13 hours ago, 2996 Victor said:

14 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

Nous avons un érection pour un LeO 451! Tant mieux!!

 

Adrian

Erm..... c'est du bon travail j'ai le Viagra en commande 

 

À votre santé,

Mark

 

err.... umm..... yeah....

[2996 Victor]

6 hours ago, opus999 said:

Indeed!  Amiot 143 anyone?  

Oh, yeah! Definitely  That's one that fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!!!

[AdrianMF]

8 hours ago, opus999 said:

err.... umm..... yeah....

"We 'ave a building of a LeO 451. Super!" What, is my French a bit rusty??

 

[ModelingEdmontonian]

On 8/31/2021 at 2:13 PM, 2996 Victor said:

Hi all,

 

welcome to my new build thread! Anyone who has seen any of my other threads will know that my rate of progress is slower than the average glacier pre-global warming. So anyone who's along for this ride had better be prepared for even fewer updates! 

 

The Liore et Olivier LeO451 is one of the most elegant aeroplanes ever designed. Fact, not my opinion! That its one of my favourites, too, is in no doubt. Even though I struggle to pronounce "Liore" rather than "Loire"!!! I've somehow ended up with three of these kits in my stash, but bizarrely one of them, although sealed, is lacking its transparency sprue and early-type fin/rudder sprue!

 

There have been several build threads here on BM that have been inspirational, including these:

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235096395-smer-172-leo-451-finished/

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235080963-leo-451/

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235080963-leo-451/

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235080306-172-captured-luftwaffe-lioré-et-olivier-leo-451t-heller-retired-hurt/

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235085547-172-captured-luftwaffe-lioré-et-olivier-léo-451t-heller-take-two-15321-its-got-me-beat/

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235080757-l391-search-and-rescue-leo-453s-update-15mar21-flory-wash-windows-hand-rail-etc/

 

But these on www.https://heller-forever.forumactif.com/ have inspired me to have a go with this vintage kit:

https://heller-forever.forumactif.com/t10553-liore-olivier-leo-451-gb-i-25-tunis-el-aouina-printemps-1943-ref-80389

https://heller-forever.forumactif.com/t8135-leo-451-flottille-4f-1942-ref-80389

and most especially

https://heller-forever.forumactif.com/t13482-liore-et-olivier-leo-451-ref-389

which is the acme that I'm aspiring to emulate 

 

So, the usual kit photos.

the box top:

http://

the back of the box:

http://

typical Heller instructions:

http://

the colour schemes (the Aeronautique Navale de Vichy is The One):

http://

the decals - Heller's current decals are really rather splendid:

http://

the sprues:

http://

note, bottom right, some flash indluded with the kit, free, gratis and for nothing!

the other sprues:

http://

and, unfortunately, some ejector pin marks:

http://

 

So far, I've applied some Mr Dissolved Putty to the ejector pin marks. As I said, it'll be a slow build, but I'm looking forward to it nonetheless, and in the meantime, please have a look at Cracoucass' build on Heller Forever. Its astounding!

Cheers,

Mark

This is exciting, Mark, and excited to see it; but dear god those instructions... bonne chance!

[2996 Victor]

4 minutes ago, ModelingEdmontonian said:

This is exciting, Mark, and excited to see it; but dear god those instructions... bonne chance!

Merci beaucoup, ME! It's going to be an interesting build! 

 

Cheers,

Mark