1/72 Henschel 126 by Matchbox

[fastmongrel]

I fancied something simple and easy to throw together after a few shall we say less kits and more aids to scratch building. This is a genuine made in England kit not the later nasty made in China out of recycled milk jugs kits. You can see why modellers loved them when they first came out as unlike Airfix and Heller they fitted together.

Everything looks clean and flash free with no sinkholes or short moulded parts. The cockpit canopy is a bit chunky but the edges should look better after an attack with a scalpel.

 

[Snautzer01]

I made that one. I also made it fly, shot it and make it splinter all over the place. Happy days.
Will be following this one.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Pretty sprues, no paint needed

 

[Wurger]

The classic Matchbox plastic. The Bf 109E is moulded of the brown and yellow one as it was going to be the Trop variant.

 

[Airframes]

Nice one.
Matchbox made a heck of a range of kits back in the 1970's / 1980's and, for the time, they were very good indeed.

 

[rochie]

Nice.
the 1/48 ICM kit is on my to buy list

 

[fubar57]

I have one Karl. Some issues reported with the build around the clear parts I think but it can be resolved easily

 

[Crimea_River]

24 x 7 modelling by Stu here.

 

[Capt. Vick]

I like the Airfix 1/72 126. Still holds up I think.

 

[fastmongrel]

The classic Matchbox plastic. The Bf 109E is moulded of the brown and yellow one as it was going to be the Trop variant.

I remember the Red Arrows kit it was supposed to be moulded in red styrene but came out a fetching lipstick pink.

 

[fastmongrel]

Nice one.
Matchbox made a heck of a range of kits back in the 1970's / 1980's and, for the time, they were very good indeed.

The bigger Orange label kits were superb and went together really well compared to Airfix which needed lots of filler. If you wanted more details it was easy to add interiors because there were no big intrusions into the cockpits that needed hacking away before you could fit seats and controls. I remember one kit that had a gimmicky folding undercarriage and the cockpit was filled with the hinges needed for the unrealistic out of scale nose gear.

 

[fastmongrel]

As cockpit details were non existent just a floor and a pilots seat I stuck some bits of styrene in to make the office look busy

 

[fubar57]

Gawd....those sprues are almost.....almost as bad as my Tiger Meet F-104

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Nicely done.

 

[fastmongrel]

I have decided to paint it desert sand with dunkelgrun squiggles. What RLM number would desert sand be I know nothing about LW North Africa colours. I think it might be RLM 79.

 

[Wurger]

As memo serves the camo could be made in the same way like for Storch in the NA. It means that the sand squigles/spots were applied over the ETO standard colours rather. It means the RLM70/71/65 with the RLM 79 Sandgelb FS33434 over them. The sand paint - Testors/ModelMaster 2088 for instance.

Also possible the Italian paints could be used. Check here....

The pic source: FalkeEins - the Luftwaffe blog: ICM/Italeri Henschel HS 126 in 1:48th - Recon for Rommel - 2.(H)/14 in Africa

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[Snautzer01]

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