Adrian Hills Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 I was fiddling in the loft and found this in my stash. It surprises me as it wasn't on my inventory. As nobody has picked the Heinkel 111 up yet, I guess I better build it. I hope to get my Tiger Moth and Ju 188 done before the end of the month so I can then knock this one out. Now the question arises 'which aircraft to depict'? There weren't any decals in the box which is a shame as I was hoping to do the Romanian one. Has anyone got these decals? It looks complete 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Hang about, this He111 hasn't been mentioned as yet so we now have all the Red Range aircraft finally nominated for! Well done Adrian, thanks for bringing this one to the table. We've got a Matchbox Spares thread up and running so put a post in that and hopefully someone will be able to source some Romanian decals for you. Cheers and best of luck.. Dave. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted March 11, 2022 Author Share Posted March 11, 2022 Found the decals and they are YUK ! So will look for some after market ones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Oh good, another He.111 from you Adrian IIRC, your last one had multi-coloured plastic too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Great stuff Adrian, delighted to see the He111, join the GB Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Wow! And with that coloured plastic you won't even have to paint it!* Regards, Jason *To be honest, I miss Matchbox. I used to love buying and occasionally even building their kits. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Just now, Troy Smith said: I have a spare frog Bristol Blenheim sheet with Romanian decals, 4 large crosses are 16mm, 2 small at 11mm. Better than the above. Internet image, not actual sheet. I may even have another as I got a whole load of sheets if they are a useable size, as the numbers and fuselage stripes look to be OK . a search turns up this image as well from https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/He-111/RRAF.html note the very high contrast of the splinter pattern, this profile suggest that it's the 61/62/63 pre war colour, and the photo bear this out, (though the scheme is brown/green grey, not light brown, unless there was a specfic export scheme) which really would be eyecatching. I have no idea what colur the diagonal bars are, but a yellow digit on a yellow band makes no sense The best Romanian decals in AM are/were the RB decals, don't know they did a He-111 there is this Begemot sheet HTH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 The He.111H-2s (or perhaps H-3s?) sold to Romania were in the colours 61/62/63, although colour photos suggest more like 70/71/02, but the actual pattern had fewer segments than the standard prewar pattern seen on stepped-nose Heinkels. It would be good to find a good view of this scheme in plan on the Heinkel, as suggested artworks differ considerably. This scheme, although rare and not mentioned in textbooks, can be seen on photos of a Luftwaffe He.111P and appeared on other export aircraft such as Portuguese Ju.52. Whether the 63 colour was greenish grey, yellowish grey or light grey seems to depend on the freshness of the paint, but it wasn't very greenish and bore a close resemblance to 02 (which was only an internal colour before the change in paint standards that came with the 70/71 scheme. However the Matchbox kit is a later H-6 variant and these were delivered in the standard 70/71 to the wartime standard pattern, with even fewer segments (measured in changes of colour along the fuselage). Converting the kit back will mean thinning the props and making a solid fairing for the nose of the gondola. There are no side guns on the fuselage windows, and the exhausts are not the multiple stack kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 12 hours ago, Learstang said: Wow! And with that coloured plastic you won't even have to paint it!* Regards, Jason *To be honest, I miss Matchbox. I used to love buying and occasionally even building their kits. You never know, if I can’t get suitable decals I might nick some from another kit after painting it gloss black with red spinners 😉 Thank you for that information Graham 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted March 14, 2022 Author Share Posted March 14, 2022 Here's one I did earlier. A Casa 111 (?) with Merlin engines, done up as the Spanish Air Force target tug painted up as a WW II aircraft for the film "Battle of Britain". Will have a jolly good look at it tomorrow and see what I did with the Matchbox kit. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted March 22, 2022 Author Share Posted March 22, 2022 Hmmm, I think I have found my muse. Rather than different decals I will have a go at changing the engines - obviously I have done this before. Am now on the look out for some nacelles with the squarish front edge and those engine faceplates. Shouldn't be too difficult. In my model club in Canada I was known as "Mr, it won't take five minutes" I found this image from elsewhere on this website and have now ordered the book to get a better view of the picture 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 The Heinz Nowarra book arrived today - UK postage cost more than the book ! From it I have learnt the Werk nummer is 2122 and registration is D-APZD - the codes will help brighten up the side of the fuselage. A good chap in my Hailsham club says he can provide me with some JU 88 engines which should look about right. This is going to be a 'quick and dirty' build with the emphasis on the engine conversion. Looks like there is a square intake underneath the engine nacelle and an enormous exhaust sticking out the side. I will represent these features but as I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm not a rivet counter and prefer to knock something up and have a bit of fun 🙂 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 That’ll be different! I’ll look forward to this, always love a quirky conversion of sorts. Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 Aah, the Daimler Benz 601U engine used for this aircraft was not a radial but in inline engine. Shows how much I know about German aircraft engines. It was just the faceplate cooling system that made it look like a radial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 The D APZD lettering on the fuselage is light in shade. Would that be white or yellow? White hopefully as I don’t have many yellow letters. Your thoughts please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 Just put the fuselage together. Glad the surface is so primitive as makes it easier to putty and finish without losing detail - as there isn't any 🙂 I have been obsessing about the engines as that is why I am making this. The Italeri Ju188 nacelles look about right, but a bit small and tapered unlike the image of the real aircraft. I have another friend in my other model club who will provide engines from the Airfix Ju88 which I believe are larger. My problem is that the nacelles for the Daimler Benz 601U engine looks a lot bigger than either, especially when offering them up to the wings and looking at them relative to the nose. This is primitive seat of the pants modelling but I think the proportions are really quite important. Below are the Italeri nacelles 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 'Leg of toad, eye of newt' or something like that. It seems the right size of engine cowling can come from opened up Matchbox B17 engines. To fill the space I have cowling extensions from a pair of Matchbox Wellesley kits. The radiator fronts from my friend's Italeri Junkers 188. Squared off the ventral air intake with file and knife. I reckon these look about right. All I need is to fill the space to wings with a bit of Milliput - have done similar things before - please check out my 1/96 Avro Manchester build, or indeed my Merlin engined He/Casa 111 Having FUN 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 Haven’t forgotten about this. Have done a bit of work on engine nacelles. When I have something interesting to show will put it up. Deadline slipping for completing this by end of April! 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Those engines look huge! Nice work so far, I like the lateral thinking going on for sourcing parts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Hi @Adrian Hills We have a 2 week extension so an ideal opportunity to get this one over the line and into the Gallery, good luck. Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 Do-able in two weeks 🙂 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 Deadline is screaming so I had to get a bit quick and dirty with the engines ! Milliput tomorrow 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Great stuff Adrian Keep going mate Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 Bit of Milliput ! Note, I fitted the ventral air intakes and then dremelled them flat to act as base for other air intakes, which is are to be made 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Hills Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 Refined the Milliput by engines and made a couple of ventral air intakes out of the ubiquitous Plasticard. They look a bit 'seperate', but 'Oh well'. I like RLM 78 over RLM 65 as it is lighter and I think looks better in this scale. Gunze paint RLM dark green tomorrow morning and maybe black green in evening 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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