Heinkel He111 model kit

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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Hello fellow models

I made a mistake of buying a preowned model kit of the Heinkel He111 1/48 scale and a small portion was allready built with out painting the parts first can the parts be unglued with out damageing the parts so I can paint them correctly or does anyone know if Revel has these parts still so I can start from the begining only the cockpit area was assembled any information on this model would help from unglueing or finding parts-thank you

Ronald

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Ronald:

I know Revell-Monogram will send a certain number of “free” replacmeent parts, but you will have to pay for shipping. There is an electronic order form on their website.

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Couple of optional things you can try. Depending on how the parts were glued together:

  1. If they were put together with tube cement (and sometimes liquid cement), try putting the parts in the freezer. After an hour or so, take them out and gently apply pressure at the glue joints. Sometimes the parts will simply snap loose.

  2. If they were put together with super glue, apply a SMALL drop of acetone to the part and gently apply side-to-side motion. Super glue has great tensile strength, but not nearly as much torsional strength.

  3. Consider re-finishing the parts in place. Amazing what just a little sanding, puttying, and painting can accomplish.

Hope this helps.

Gip Winecoff

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Hi

thank you for information, that the direction I going I ordered all the parts that were assembled and Im waiting for revel to ship them it looks like they have the parts because when I looked at my order status it shows picking so it must mean that they are getting the parts now

Ronald

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For anyone else reading this, I recently found out that hot (almost boiling) water will dissolve a super glue bond as well.

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Wouldn’t the very hot water also damage the Styrene parts ?

Regards, Rick

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Yes it more than likely would. Fell into this trap yesterday trying to separate a rather messily made Sierra RS500 race car to transform into Auriol’s Sierra Cossie rally car. Net result: I need to find another Tamiya Sierra to build afresh as the plastic deformed/warped.[B)][banghead]

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Just be careful about two things: A) How hot the water is, and B) how you hold the model, i.e. if you’re using a pot, DO NOT set or rest the model against the pot itself, as that will be far hotter than the actual water. Also, hold the model very lightly, and you shouldn’t have any problems. I recently had to do something similar with Tenax 7R and a Tamiya Zero. One thing I have noticed is plastic from manufacturer A does not have the same melting point as plastic from Manufacturer B, so testing with a bit of sprue may be in order. Good Luck, and let us know how it turns out!