Heinkel He111 C Lufthansa
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There are several partitions for the passenger cabin, the fit of which corresponds to the rest of the kit...
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The fuselage seams were finished with Nitro putty
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Surprise! The wing center piece doesn't really fit on the fuselage either....
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Wings were scraped much thinner so as not to be twice as thick as the control surfaces!
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The molded coolers on the underside must be removed
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If you build the landing gear bay according to plan it looks like this;
There needs to be a little bit of adjustment!
There needs to be a little bit of adjustment!
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After I had removed about 5mm from the top edge of the landing gear bays, the wings could be installed
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The wing connection to the fuselage requires a little filler
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... as well as the transitions to the engines
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Some details (which were a bit washed out at the factory anyway) had to be added after the filler areas had been sanded
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The manufacturer had forgotten the landing light, but a replacement was quickly created
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Basecoat of Tamiya Fine White Primer
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A light pre-shade was followed by painting with Vallejo metal paints
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The kit decals were absolutely useless, but I had already decided at the beginning to finish the model as "D-AXAV" with the name "Köln".
This is where my plotter was used...
This is where my plotter was used...
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The masking masks for the bow painting required some tinkering!
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And here she is now...
Not the best result, but considering the source material I'm quite happy!
Not the best result, but considering the source material I'm quite happy!
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5 21 December 2023, 11:12
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You have all the reasons to be happy. You turned a nasty putty queen into a sleek airliner. Very appealing.
21 December 2023, 12:25
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I always found the Heinkel 111 in its early design as a Lufthansa passenger aircraft very appealing.
You rarely see built copies of the Roden kit, which could be explained by the “quality” or “accuracy” of the components!
As part of a group build at the Cologne Model Building Forum, I dared to build it...