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Hi folks, this is a model I have already built and was planning to post in a Completed Kits thread. However, as I was pulling it together I realised I took quite a lot of photos during the build and have some commentary on the build stages that might be of some use. Given I also don't have the time or energy to post it all in one go, I thought it would work best as a S2F thread. Wojtek, let me know if this is OK - if not I can switch it back to a Completed Kits thread.
Anyway, the kit is Revell's 1/72 Heinkel He 111 H-6 which is a re-box of a Hasegawa kit. I've always wanted to build a 111 since seeing them way back when as a kid in the Battle of Britain film. There's something about that glasshouse canopy I really like.
Speaking of the glasshouse canopy, since the cockpit will be so visible I couldn't resist sprucing it up with the Eduard Zoom PE interior, even if it is 1/72 scale. I also bought Montex canopy masks as there was no bloody way I was going to mask that thing myself!
The aircraft I will be modelling was the personal transport aircraft of Oberstleutnant Kuhlmey, Commander of "Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey", part of Schlachtgeschwader 3, based in Immola, Finland during 1944.
This photograph was taken in the summer of 1944 showing the aircraft with disruptive winter paint camo. However, I will be taking a little licence and representing the aircraft as I imagine it in preceding winter months wearing temporary winter whitewash camo over its factory camo scheme...
Anyway, the kit is Revell's 1/72 Heinkel He 111 H-6 which is a re-box of a Hasegawa kit. I've always wanted to build a 111 since seeing them way back when as a kid in the Battle of Britain film. There's something about that glasshouse canopy I really like.
Speaking of the glasshouse canopy, since the cockpit will be so visible I couldn't resist sprucing it up with the Eduard Zoom PE interior, even if it is 1/72 scale. I also bought Montex canopy masks as there was no bloody way I was going to mask that thing myself!
The aircraft I will be modelling was the personal transport aircraft of Oberstleutnant Kuhlmey, Commander of "Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey", part of Schlachtgeschwader 3, based in Immola, Finland during 1944.
This photograph was taken in the summer of 1944 showing the aircraft with disruptive winter paint camo. However, I will be taking a little licence and representing the aircraft as I imagine it in preceding winter months wearing temporary winter whitewash camo over its factory camo scheme...
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