Special Hobby 1:72 scale Heinkel He 100

[Bustedwing]

Yet another Heinkel and another that didn't get a fair shake. Very hot looking airplane. The kit is great, not many parts, a sheet of PE parts and not so great instructions. What looks like some inaccuracies as well. First off the cockpit seems all wrong so I'm going to build a new one, the kit supplied seat is far too small as well. The other thing I have noticed is the flaps. On the top surfaces they look like they are fabric covered and split and open from the wing root outwards. From the bottom they look like they are skinned with metal, not split and open well under the fuselage outwards. From the pictures I've seen the latter seems to be accurate. The gear bays are also devoid of any detail so I'll tart them up a bit as well. From what I can see so far I'm also going to be doing a lot of sanding and trimming as well. Mostly on the wings and wings to fuselage.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Another rare one. Very cool.

 

[Bustedwing]

Turning out to be a very nice kit, needs help detail wise. A bit of bling for the wheel bays. I can't find any pictures of the real deal so I winged it. Cockpit I've found some pictures. My attempt to make it more like the real deal instead of the kit supplied parts. I used hypodermic needles for the gun barrels. The Pharmacy guy. I would like some needles, to inject what serum, no I just want the needles no syringes. Well what for ? 1:72 scale machine gun barrels. He's cool, usually just gives a bunch to me.

 

[fubar57]

Looking good. Got a reaction when I went to the Pharmasave and asked for 100 syringes; "and needles?" "Nope...just syringes for drawing paint and thinner". And then it was a 30 second stare down before they sold them to me

 

[Wurger]

 

[Bustedwing]

Looking good. Got a reaction when I went to the Pharmasave and asked for 100 syringes; "and needles?" "Nope...just syringes for drawing paint and thinner". And then it was a 30 second stare down before they sold them to me

I was tempted to say the War Dept. and I are into S&M Pagan piercing rituals but I figured then he would make me pay for them !

 

[Crimea_River]

I got plenty of questions when I asked for needles at my Pharmacy as well.

 

[Bustedwing]

Office space. Again I took a few liberties after not finding much picture wise of the interior. I've based it on what I have seen other people do so I'm not sure exactly how accurate it is.


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[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Very nice.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Isn't that called "creative gizmology"?

 

[Bustedwing]

Isn't that called "creative gizmology"?

exactly !

 

[Capt. Vick]

Great job!

 

[Bustedwing]

Great job!

Thank you ! So far it's a very good kit but the true measure are the decals which I have rotten luck with !

 

[Babaganoosh]

Looking great so far! It's surely better than the old Lindberg kit, correct?

 

[Bustedwing]

Looking great so far! It's surely better than the old Lindberg kit, correct?

Never seen the old He100 Lindberg kit but I have seen lots of the old Lindberg kits and yes !

 

[Bustedwing]

Another flapectomy. Again, no luck finding any pictures of the inside details so I just winged it again. The kit is a bit floppy flap wise. On the upper surfaces there are inner and outer flaps. One from the wing cant to the fuselage and one to the wing cant to the aileron and molded surface detail to look like skin. On the bottom it has just the one from the wing cant in molded like skin or fabric

. Also different sizes top to bottom.

 

[Wurger]

Here is a screenshot from a documental movie showing the He-100 V8 prototype during tests. The flaps can be seen partially on the left near the left bottom corner of the shot. . IMHO all control surfaces were of the metal structure with the fabric skin.