does anybody know were I can find a 1/48 scale HE-111 cheap?I looked all over and I can’t seem to find one.
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e-bay ?
I’m the only person in America who has no idea how to buy or sell on E-Bay. Also, I don’t do credit card transactions on the web. Yep, still in that dark ages of money orders and real envelopes and stamps. But I want to find the ProModeler version of this same kit so I can hang a V-1 or a pair (could they carry two? I think I’ve seen such photos). I know FSM management cringes every time we slag one of their major advertising accounts on this site. However, paying almost $14.00 plus shipping for that, what?, 13-part Tamiya Buzz Bomb kit is robbery. I admit I bought it practically the day it came out, expecting more. But no. It’s just an improvment over the old Hawk mold from the early 60s. In fact, it’s so incredibly easy to make a good-looking V-1 from that cheap Testors release of the Hawk kit, just some putty and a little plastic card, a few scribed lines, that’s what I will do when I get the He 111 kit. Now, where do you research the modifications to the 111 for air-launching V-1s?
Just have some patience - Monogram will have it back on shelves within a few months. You can preorder it at Squadron or at Great Models.
Is the Monogram kit currently OOP? I still see quite a few of them on the shelves over here.
Just for your info, Hasegawa’s new 1/72 He-111 will be out soon.
But ya’ll already knew that, right?
Yup, have been waiting to see the Hasegawa 1/72 He-111 and now it’s getting close. Hope it’s as nice as their B-25 kits. Now if they would do a B-26 & DO-17 I would really get excited.
The Monogram H-20 kit has the V-1 and mounting points included, but beware- there are many minor details that need to be changed to accurize it. the kit is a strange amalgam of early models. In particular, the gondola windows, exhausts and main canopy would need to be adapted, as would the props and defensive weaponry. The new Kagero He 111 is a good general reference, as is the Aerodetail volume. Good luck!
I recall when two researchers from a model maker came to the CAF museum to take measurements and detail shots of the two 109s. I didn’t meet them and couldn’t find out which firm they were from, but it made me wonder how much of the Spanish additions and changes made it onto their kit, since as everyone knows, those birds are post-war Spanish copies with Hispano engines, as is the He 111, same engines. All three were restored for film work in “Battle of Britain,” and were obtained cheap from film company when shooting wrapped. I don’t know all the changes the Spanish made, but mechanics told me the 111 was closer to German specs than the 109s. I was further told that model companies had measured the 111 and taken photos for a kit. Maybe Italeri? For a while, Monogram even had a “Confederate Air Force” series of kits for yet another shot at selling their ancient, awful string of WW II Navy planes, which every one of us, no matter what age, must have built as kids. No cockpit at all. But every moving part did, in fact move, and wings folded. This was after they had crashed their Dauntless, then – and for all I know, still – the only flying example in the whole world. Pilot was killed and plane was utterly destroyed.
This is even further off the subject, but I just remembered that the CAF had a perfectly flyable F-82 Twin Mustang, all black with a HUGE radar pod between the fuselages. The reason it was gathering dust in the back of a dark hangar was because they had robbed the prop blades on one side and some other parts for some other, WW II bird and since the F-82 wasn’t WW II they couldn’t care less about it. They not only didn’t care about anything not WW II, they had open hostility toward other a/c, no matter how historical, especially anything without a prop.
there is nothing wrong with mail orders i do the same thing safest i think.
does anyone know if the monogram kit will have raised panel lines??
ghettochild - Monogram’s He 111 has recessed panel lines, a good interior, and “flattened” tires. The only part of the kit I found troublesome was the wheel well side walls. The gear doors are molded to them, and they’re a tricky fit. Overall, a very good kit, IMHO.
Amen to that , Pix. I’ve gotta post some pics of mine- crawling along, am getting the main canopy bits on at last. I’m using the Clearvax/ Squadron late version, glued on with Testor’s canopy glue. I’m already having nigytmares about pulling the masking off! [:O]
so i guess it is just the promodler version then right. thats cool ive already built one and am working on another.
When the Monogram kit came out, my then-roommate and I bought them both at the same time. He built his right away, and I was going to learn from his mistakes, but I hung on to the kit for years and it was one destroyed in my fire. But I recall he had a hard time with the wheel wells, too. And the greenhouse framework, needless to say, was a nightmare. I have, to date, not used any kind of aftermarket canopy masks (I’ll use those in my AM B-25G). What kind of experiences have you guys had with them? Ironically, it’s a product I longed for before they ever came on the market, along with stencils for national insignia, etc. And now that they’ve been around for years, I haven’t got to use them. The many different ones I had got bur…well, you’re all tired of that story. But I’m curious about them, since I’ve ruined many an otherwise great build with substandard canopy framwork. I liked doing Verlinden’s PE frames for my Me-109E-4. They were tricky, but I got them to bend without kinking and snuggle down onto the kit canopy somehow. If I did PE framework again, I’d simply take thin clear sheet and glue the individual “glass” panes to the inside of the frames before folding them. And toss the kit canopy.
Not all the Casa versions of the He-111 were purpose built in Spain - about 20 years a go I worked for a gentleman who had several warbirds amongst which was a Spanish He-111 (One of the Battle of Britain birds). During the first inspection we conducted when I worked on it we found two Data Plates in the fuselage - One was a Casa Data Plate with a date of 1947 (as I remember it) - Just below it was a Heinkel Data Plate stating it was an He-111-16, with a build date of 1944 - the engine installations were not what you would expect of a factory installation - the fuel, oil, and coolant lines had been modified by welding a fitting on the end to match the British fittings on the Merlin - was a very neat installation but definitly not what you would expect to find in a built from scratch factory aircraft. Possibly one of the initial conversion prototypes? The airframe had been futher modified to a transport aircraft by removal of the fuselage bombay, bombay doors and all bomb controls but that could have happened anytime in its service life. Don’t know what happened to the bird - I left the gentlemans employment and a few years later he declared bankruptcy and all his aircraft were sold.
I almost would have guessed it was a veteran of the Condor Legion from Spanish Civil war, but you said 1944. Wonder if it was an “airliner” version sold to Spain during war or as suplus afterward. They were, after all, officially fascists until Franco died, weren’t they? Anyway, did 111 fight in the the Spanish Civil War Condor Legions? That must have been one rare bird you saw and I wonder if it still exists somewhere. I just remembered I wrote a magazine feature years ago about a German man who ran a tiny airport in the woods of east Texas, and he was building a little shoestring warbird collection, doing his own restorations. He took me up in a Do-28, I think was the designation, which is a remarkable VSTOL plane he got from Israeli Air Force and kept in its original camo and markings. He cranked down these huge flaps controlled with a giant wheel, which looked like a trim wheel the size of a mountain bike tire. I swear that plane was airborne in less than 200 feet, and it was big enough to hold, I think, eight passengers. He also had a German Me 108, but he was vague about how he got it. And in his hangar was an original Storch that was waiting for a new fabric skin. Wonder what happened to Heinz something-or-other and his warbirds.
You want to have some construction nightmares, build this version of the 111
Amazing as it may sound, this 1/48 scale conversion of the Monogram kit only took 30 days!
Revell are doing one at the moment i’m not sure how much it is or what cuntries it’s avalible in… please look up revell models 1/48 scale heinkel he-111
Model Expo has the revell 1:48 kit for $16.20…dont know what shipping is but pretty cheap. I think its only a 4 day sale so I would check it out soon!
Actaully did fly it, but after it crashed, it was a goner due to the unavailability of the needed Allisons, props, landing gear, and a host other things… It was restored to static display condition though and trotted out every Airsho Weekend. A few years ago, the Air Force sarted a bunch crap about wanting it back, and it ended up being sold.
That’s what Kermit Weeks and the Weeks Air Museum is for…
The purpose of the CAF Ghost Squadron (The flying branch of the CAF) of the American Airpower Heritage Museum is quite clear in its mission-statement of “restoring and maintaining, in flying condition, the combat aircraft of World War Two”… The AAHM is the CAF-proper…
Preserving later, Post-1945, combat aircraft and combat aircraft used prior to 1939, is beyond the scope of the CAF… Due to the tremendous operating costs of flying and maintaining these aircraft, the CAF had to be specific in its aquisitions… Caf Founder, Colonel Lloyd Nolen, only set out to aquire one each of all the American aircraft… It expanded into including aircraft of other WW2 combatants later…
That said, we do have a T-28 and a T-33 on the roster, although they are NOT part of the Ghost Squadron.
Here’s the Ghost Squadron patch, note the dates:
And my A-2 jacket’s blood chit:
Sadly, the frikkin’ PC Movement took the “Confederate” out of our name in 2000 and changed it to the cockamamee “Commemorative Air Force” and we had to give up our Grey flightsuits and uniforms for Khaki ones… However, I still wear my old “Confederate” Ghost Squadron patch on the right shoulder… Pretty much all the Colonels who have serial numbers below 20000-mark do as well, lol…