Heinkel He 177 A6 - Greiff

Zimmermaniac
started...cockpit almost done, inside of fuselage and cockpit painted RLM66 ( Gunze 416 ), now working on seatbelts and washes, more later

Holger Kranich
Did you made the pix in a Solarium?😢 it's looking great Zimmi! Pe's are worth the money as long as the canopy is not closed! I'm exited about the outcome of this beautiful kit!😢

Zimmermaniac
I'll try to make better pix tomorrow Holger 🙁

Holger Kranich
Hey no worries, my pix are sometimes so bad that I don't even dare to load them up😢!

Mike Kryza
A good looking start!

Aghis Barberopoulos
Very good looking cockpit! I am jealous 🙂

Philip De Keyser
The cockpit looks great zimmy, keep the pix comming😉

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Hi ,Zimmi
Cockpit looks realy great.Well done.Looking forward for more!

Augie
like the look, will be watching

Bill Gilman
This kit is really growing on me. You keep doing such a good job and I'll have to buy a copy!

Wilfried Bogaerts
Zimmi !! Zimmi !! Looking good, keep goin' and beware ... Augie is watching you😉

Jan Goormans
very nice work in that cockpit !!

Zimmermaniac
cockpit almost finished, just have to add a million motherf156'(é48ing handles 🙂
for the case of Holger, better pix

Holger Kranich
Looks gorgeous zimmi! Great work! And the pictures are beautiful😢

Adrian LR
Great work. Is that out of box or any add-ons?

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Wow,Mate!
Same question as Adrian.

Christian Lehmann
Real amazing Zimmi. Can´t believe that it is 1/72,

Zimmermaniac
it's Eduard goodies 🙂

stefan natus
Looks promising.

Zimmermaniac
handles are on, took me bout half an hour, paintin on the frame, cutting 'emm off and mounting into place

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
you dont need lessons,Mate .Youre on the right way.Keep up that very good work! 🙂

Zimmermaniac
Hey Markus, are you coming to the BSMC convention in December ?? it's 10 minutes driving from where I live, we could have some beers 🙂
bsmc.be/

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Its on my to do List,Mate!

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
🙂

Zimmermaniac
little progress, first try in soldering PE parts, luckily nothing of it won't be seen anymore 🙂

Holger Kranich
These lil belts are horrifying, I know! But you did well! This will become a great replic of a Reichsfeuerzeug😢!

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Well done,Zimmi.At my next project i want to try soldering to (for the first time ,too)
I am not so into planes ,so why Reichfeuerzeug?
I know that the Sherman Tanks called "Ronson" ( like the lighter) because of the fast burning by a hit to the ammo.

Holger Kranich
The 4 engines liked to go up in flames too often. It had many nicknames like reichsfackel and so on😢!

Mike Kryza
Holly it is right. They never solve the problems of two engins one behind the other. They overheated very often...

Holger Kranich
Yep! The other problem was that it should have diving bomber capabilities... Total silly order from the RLM!

Mike Kryza
Right too!

Aghis Barberopoulos
If only the double skin evaporative cooling worked efficiently enough... 🙂
As Holger pointed out, if it wasn't for the ridiculous dive requirement, it would have been a fairly successful aircraft. It was certainly advanced enough that the Brits were really interested in it.

Holger Kranich
I remember one of the British pilots who said that he ever felt comfortable in a German aircraft but not in this one!

Aghis Barberopoulos
He obviously didn't fly the Me 163... hehe 😉
Youtube Video

Acki
Cool video! Thanks Aghis.

Holger Kranich
Fritz the Fox! Cool! That's funny, indeed!

Philip De Keyser
Great start Zimmi, the cockpit looks awesome😉

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Thanks Mates for the explanations.Now i know more! 🙂

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Its like Phils "Komet " is called "Kraftei". :-D

Holger Kranich
Jep!

Zimmermaniac
gee, what conversations due to me trying to build a Greif 🙂

Zimmermaniac
fuselage halves closed up

Dave Flitton
Nice work so far!!!

Holger Kranich
Did you already dryfit the canopy? I had some problems at this point!

Christian Lehmann
Hey, Zimi is back. Nice details

Frank Krause
Nice cockpit! The seat belts are amazing! How did you deal with them? They seem to be that small, that even tweezers appear to be too big...

Wilfried Bogaerts
Good, job Zimmy ! 👍

Zimmermaniac
Frank, seatbelts are still quite handable with tweezers and a steady hand 🙂

Tim Vereecke
Nice progress zimmer!

Jan Goormans
goe bezig maat 😉

Aghis Barberopoulos
The beast begins to take shape...nice work so far !

Zimmermaniac
did some work on the tail, Revell wants you to remove the tailsection, file it and add the specific one for A-6, so I did, as ya can see I added lots of putty to fill the gap, for removal of the putty no sanding stick came around, only cotton buds and mr color thinner, see for yourselves

Holger Kranich
Looks ok in my oppinion! Its not easy to add it in the right angle but looks good on the pix!

Wilfried Bogaerts
Putty demo at the club !!!

Holger Kranich
Do you use the thinner when putty is dry or still wet?

Zimmermaniac
smoothen it when wet, remove when dry

Zimmermaniac
Wilfried...a master at work
Youtube Video

Holger Kranich
I tryed it that way on my latest 109 with Revell putty. Worked out very nice. And again, thx for that hint Zimmi!

Philip De Keyser
Hi Zimmi, looks great mate, I know the trick with the putty, the result looks fine, keep the pix comming
@Holger, I use the thinner when the putty is still wett, I do use sometimes tamyia fine liqiud cement for these things, but be carefull with the cement on the plastick, before you now you've got a hole in you plane 🙁
Greetz Phil

Holger Kranich
@Phil: You mean Tamiya extra thin? Oh yes, you´ve gotta be careful with that!😢

Philip De Keyser
@Holger, yes that's the one😉

Holger Kranich
@Phil: great glue!!!

Bill Gilman
What's the secret message on the glass in photos 14-17? Something about breakfast and lunch... 🙂

Zimmermaniac
I cut the PE parts from the frame on that glas, otherwise there's too much chance you bend 'em while cutting

Zimmermaniac
@Phil..I tried the trick using the thinner when putty is still wet, works great, it gets real smoothened, but works not with mr surfacer, ya wipe everything off, not only the excess
thnx for the tip 🙂

Wilfried Bogaerts
Tried it with Mr. Surfacer and Tamiya Laquer Thinner, it works! Mr. Surfacer applied on Friday evening and removed on Saturday evening with a cotton bud soaked with Tamiya Laquer Thinner. Looks if this is goin' to become a standard procedure for me now... 😄

Zimmermaniac
🙂🙂

Zimmermaniac
just ordered Swastika decals - What's a greiff without ' em 🙂

Christian Lehmann
Hi Wilfried, which Laquer thinner did you use? X-20A?

Wilfried Bogaerts
Hi Lemmy, no that's Tamiya's acrylic thinner, I use lacquer thinner, item N° 87077-500. The bottles with the YELLOW cap.

Christian Lehmann
o.k. I dont know them but with the item no ican find it
Thank´s an happy new year

Zimmermaniac
meanwhile a little progress here...much curing and sanding done

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Hi Zimmy
How are you ,Mate??
Looks great so far .!A lot of putty used ,or??

Zimmermaniac
a lot o' work goes in the area where the bombbays meet the fuselage. nasty seams appear there
further on...hiprecovery goes slowly but steady, thnx for asking mate

Holger Kranich
Good to hear that model and hip recovery makes progress!!!
This Reichsfeuerzeug seems to become a beauty!!!

Bill Gilman
Ooh, hip surgery? Was it a replacement? My daughter does orthopaedic surgeries, so I hear about this kind of stuff all the time. Hope it continues to make good progress! I would say that the hip has priority over the model! But you still have to finish the model, or we will give you lots of greiff!! 🙂

Zimmermaniac
1 of em Hs 293 's ready for paint

Holger Kranich
The guided missle looks perfect! And they are so easy to build!

Zimmermaniac
finally the beast has wings....also spent a little ( 🙂 ) time on canopy masking

Holger Kranich
The canopy is indeed heavy to mask... But as I see, you did it well!👍

Zimmermaniac
some subs almost ready, just some more fading needed, nose canopy applied, needs some new masking and touching up

Bill Gilman
Good Grief!! Looking great! Let's get some paint on the old bird! 🙂

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Great great work,Zimmi.Must be a painfull work to mask the canopy!😉
Cant wait like Bill to see color!

stefan natus
Great masking work!

Zimmermaniac
primer coat added, checked for flaws, none to see so time to take the thing out for the real paintjob

Dave Flitton
Looking good. Masking looks like it took a while to finish.

Zimmermaniac
RLM 65 on, followed by carefull masking for RLM 02 in wheelbays and rear turret housing

Zimmermaniac
off to the RLM 77 mottling, with a very faint heart 🙂🙂

Holger Kranich
Hang in there, baby!😄

Zimmermaniac
IT WORKS !!!!!!! yeahhh 🙂🙂🙂

Zimmermaniac
in fact, it's so much fun ya gotte be carefull not to cover up the entire RLM 65 🙂

Holger Kranich
Very good!

Zimmermaniac
one side done clouding, you guys' opinion would be great 🙂

Aghis Barberopoulos
It looks good from here, go on!

Zimmermaniac
the thing's got paint !!

Roy McKenzie
The cockpit looks great and the cloud paint scheme is awesome, nice work 👍 👍 👍

Helerson Maciel
Nice job.
I have one in stock waiting to go to the bench.
Just do not know when.
🙂

Bill Gilman
You're on the road to stardom! This thing looks great!! 🙂 🙂

stefan natus
Paint looks great!

Zimmermaniac
little progress again, markings, wheellegs and matcoat, now it's up to the pastel work

Philip De Keyser
Looks great Zimmi, looking forward to the endresult😉

Zimmermaniac
postshading of the underside, using blue/grey pastelchalk, followed by a rondomly blended in light blue over the panels

Zimmermaniac
been foolin' round with pastels, halfway there, would like to have your opinions guys 🙂

Aghis Barberopoulos
If you don't mind me saying, the surface looks too matt for an aircraft in 1/72 (maybe it's the photo effect), otherwise the post shading is quite effective. Are you applying a glossy or semi-glossy varnish afterwards ?

Christian Lehmann
Well done Zimmi. Looks o.k.

Zimmermaniac
@ Aghis : the matcoat is to hold the pastels, final coat will be more semimatt

Zimmermaniac
upperside pastelling done, seems to be something wrong wite the picsize, gotta ask my daughter bout it, her camera 🙂

Zimmermaniac
panellines on fuselagesides are pastelled in with grey/blue

Zimmermaniac
and again some progress...exhausts done, wheels, bombs and propellors are on

Holger Kranich
Fkn great Job Chris! I love your "lighter"!!!

Christian Lehmann
Looks great Zimmi. It seems that it is comming to an end.

Zimmermaniac
finally got my replacement part from Revell ( great service ), so I can begin finishing this one 🙂

Es-haq Khosravi
Is the cockpit made of copper shits? Excellent job!

Zimmermaniac
Lemmy, as promised last sunday....the flying match is finished 🙂

Christian Lehmann
Very well done.Don't hide it.😉

Dave Flitton
Looks good

Augie
Nice!! i like it

Holger Kranich
Great job, Zimmi! She looks gorgeous! How was Prague?

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Very very great job ,Mate!Like the shading much.

Martin
As the others said - a great job on that beast

Holger Kranich
LOL!😄

Holger Kranich
Always good to read twice before posting!😢😄

Frank Krause
@Dirk, Holger: 😛 👍 👍 👍 😄

Holger Kranich
Is mir auch schon oft passiert...Gut das man das löschen kann😢!

Holger Kranich
Quatsch, ist doch funny und jeder weis was du meinst!

Dirk Heyer
Aaaaarrrrghh!!ZIMMERMANIAC!!!!!!!
And you was hiding this model???????
And we couldn`t see it in Mol why??????
Oh pls, holy Mr. Zimmermaniac!
Pls,pls don`t be so shy next time and show us your models!!!
A nice model, indeed!

Dirk Heyer
Soo, nun steht ihr alleine mit eurem Geläster!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Holger Kranich
Sacknase😢😢😢

Dirk Heyer
HäHäHä 🙂

Dirk Heyer
Wenn dat die "Kleinen" unter uns gelesen hätten!!! 🙂

Holger Kranich
Ich glaube "der Kleine" unter uns bin ich...

Dirk Heyer
Nein ich!
Du bist schon versaut!
🙂 🙂

Holger Kranich
... Du hast mich noch nie gesehen und kennst mich offenbar besser als mir lieb ist...😢

Jan Voorbij
Wonderful. Saw in real life last Saturday. My compliments C! Never seen this one with its industrial - pre-Luftwaffe - code.

Roy McKenzie
Love the paint work. Very nice.

Burkhard D
Awesome!!! Looking great 👍👍👍
Is that RLM82/83 top colors?

Zimmermaniac
hmmm, I've tried to create them using the revell colormixcalouts 🙁 don't know if they really match the originals, but they look good to me

Wilfried Bogaerts
Congrats with your trophy last Sunday !!! 🙂

Christian Lehmann
Also congratz from me

Philip De Keyser
Congratz Zimmy, I don't now it was yours, looks great
Greetz Phil

Dirk Heyer
Hi Zimmi,
my congrats for such a nice He 177 model!

You achieved truly amazing results! What a mess of work with all those small Photo etched parts! Looks great.
The paint
I was thinking the contour of the nose cone would looks quiet better than presented on the the 48 scale model?
Thumbs up, mate!

Wim van der Luijt
great model of a very interesting subject...like the markings!

Burkhard D
Your mix colors are fine for me! Best built and best painted He177 I've ever seen 👍👍👍

Zimmermaniac
thnx guys
the only downthing in this box is the glasshouse....Revell should think about new moulds for it when they ever rerelease the kit...with nowadays moulding capacities it should be able to produce a high standard canopy

Es-haq Khosravi
I agree with you! The only lack in several Revell kits is their canopies!