Thanks Doug! I usually build ships so this is a bit of departure for me.
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Finished my scud and launcher. Not much weathering as my game pieces are pretty clean. The figure is a 28mm Syrian from Mongrel miniatures, about 1/56 scale, have to finish the basing on it.
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Congratulations! Your model is very well done and quite interesting. A gaming area for vehicles like that must be huge.
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Itâs more of a target than a firing vehicle. Scud-buster type games. Even my 6mm launchers donât get to fire.
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John, thatâs a beautiful job on the scud and launcher. I would never have known it was a gaming piece!
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Itâs the old ARII kit in 1/48. Thatâs my go to scale for wargaming vehicles as the figures are closer to that than 1/56. It was this kit or a $300 diecast chinese missile vehicle.
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Now you have me looking at 1/35 scale Scud launchers. They are gigantic.
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The cockpit of the He-111 was highly visible through all that glazing, but since the old Airfix kit had such thick, distorting transparencies I only added masking tape seatbelts to the kit cockpit. Nothing much can really be seen in there.
The kit didnât seem worth the bother of masking off all those complex glass panels in the nose, so I simply brush painted the framing.
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I was originally going to apply the kit-supplied Afrika markings to this model, but since the MPC release featured artwork and markings inaccurate for the He-111 type in the kit, I opted to complete it as an Eastern Front machine instead. These markings came with the Kagero Publications He-111 âTop Drawingsâ book.
My brush painting plan quickly stalled as I made a horrible, lumpy mess of the underside blue. I ended up sanding most of it off to smooth things again. Having learned my lesson, I switched to my airbrush to apply the Eastern theatre yellow fuselage band and wingtip markings.
It is a bit more effort, but the airbrush does a much neater job!
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Next came topside a coat using the last of my old Model Master RLM 71 DunkelgrĂźn enamelâŚ
âŚfollowed by Model Master RLM 71 SchwartzgrĂźn to complete the distinctive Luftwaffe splinter pattern. It is starting to look like a Heinkel!
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Your Heinkel is looking very good with the splinter camouflage down.
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Yes, that looks very good 
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Thanks guys.
Decals on! 
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That reminds me at the year 1977 , i was 11 years old and want to join the MATCHBOX modell contest, my father bought me a Wellington for that and he build the He 111 ( out of contest ). His build was so clean and well made, the first time for me to see how masking is done. Finally i made first place with the Wellington 
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That reminds me at the year 1977, i was 11 years old and want to join the MATCHBOX model contest, my father bought me a Wellington for that and he build the He 111 (out of contest). His build was so clean and well made, the first time for me to see how masking is done. Finally i made first place with the Wellington
Gerrit, I too remember from childhood those Matchbox kits with their trench-like panel lines - I thought they were great! I loved the little one paragraph histories of the plane the boxtop renderings too. Very inspiring!
My first Spitfire was the Matchbox Mk. IX. Made a real mess of it, but I didnât care! 
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This Heinkel really isnât such a bad kit for its age, even having such features as separate rudder, ailerons, and elevators.
MPCâs idea of the three possible marking schemes is cool too, even if they did flub the research on this one. The schemes in this series were taken directly from the Profile Publications aircraft monographs common in hobby shops at the time, a nice tie-in.
Anyway, one of the wheels was missing from my 1972 kit by the time it came to me! I replaced them both with True Details resin parts - the only aftermarket (other than the decals) used on this build.
The missing part actually proved fortunate; test fitted here, the new wheels are quite a bit better than the original Airfix renditions.
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With the airframe painted and the decals on, I liked the completed upper splinter pattern and was tempted to just attach all the loose bits and call the Heinkel done⌠but that temporary winter camouflage pattern was so cool I just had to give it a go!
Loading up the airbrush, I did the same as the Luftwaffe field mechanics and sprayed white over the aircraft in broad, loose squiggles. Odd looking, but Iâll bet it was effective in breaking up all those dark greens over the snow covered Russian countryside!
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Ok, so this previously unfinished business is now finished!
With the airframe painting completed all that remained was to add all the previously prepared smaller components such as the propellers, exhausts, undercarriage, gun barrels, and bombs.
This wasnât the best fitting kit, but I did appreciate its positive aspects such as the accurate shape, positionable control surfaces, and subtle raised riveting.
Airfixâs 1962 vintage Heinkel may no longer be state of the art, but it still stands up as a good âthree footerâ model!
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