Has anybody noticed this? Maybe its me, but it looks as if the nose of the fuselage forward of the windscreen is bent downward. I know that the fuselage aft of the canopy tapers downward, but something just don’t look right! From all the photo reference I’ve come across, the horizontal line of the exhaust should be 90 degrees to the vertical fuselage panel lines, and its not. Even the old Lindberg model, being as crude as it is, at least looks accurate! Anybody else see this? Dave.
You’re right; the He 100 had a positive thrust angle of a bit over 1 degree; for some reason, the entire engine cowling on the model is tilted downward by about the same amount. This is the most obvious problem with the kit; there are many other, smaller errors as well. I’d like to add a couple of images with this, to show how the fuselage has to be modified, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to attach photos or any other imagery. Hmmmm…
I thought the kit would look like a He100 when I built it.
You have to use a third party site like Photobucket to post picks on this forum. Upload your pics to whatever site you want to use, copy the direct link , then click on the little film clip…to the left of the smiley face, paste the link into the window, click “insert” and the picture will show up in the post. That`s how I do it anyway.
Does it still look like an He 100 when it’s built? I mean, if I look at a model, and ID it correctly as to type and sub-type, that’'s close enough in my book… A one or two-degree angle isn’t enough to matter to most modelers, especially if having an He 100 is a priority…
Don’t get me wrong, if the wingtips are square when they’re supposed to be rounded, or a tail’s squared-off and it’s supposed to be an elipse, that’s a shape-issue…
It looks pretty good in these pics…
http://forums.europeanmodeller.com/index.php?showtopic=2750&mode=threaded
Does the Lindberg Stuka Look like a Stuka?,…Incorrect nose, wing shape, canopy, etc… But yeah, if its far away, and you squint,…Its a Stuka. I don’t know about anybody else, but accuracy is very important to me. I want my Stuka to look like the real a/c, and my HE-100D to look like the real one as well, especially if I’m paying $50+ for it! Because of this, I sold mine on ebay, and went for the HiPM 1/48 kit. The sad part is, Isn’t the HiPM, and MPM molds produced by the same Czech tooling company? Dave.
In a word, yes… Sure, there are some wing-tip issues, and the cowl looks like it’s missing a duct, canops’s close, but overall it builds into a Ju 87… But it’s a 12.00 kit from the 60’s, and you get what you see… Like here:
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In competions, none of the judges walk around with the drawings of the planes to compare kit accuracy, they just look for the application of basic modeling skills, missed seams, paint and weathering, scope of effort- that kind of stuff…
If accuracy is that important to ya, then fine, that’s your gig, and I ain’t gonna criticize it… Frankly, I think $50.00 bucks is too much for a 1/32 single-engine/single-seat aircraft kit in the first place, but if the accuracy is your thing, and you wanna part with the scratch, then so be it… It’s just not everybody’s thing, and most folks don’t even notice the little things, since they don’t study production drawings or whatever… They just have fun building the kit, like the guy that built the Lindberg Stuka did…
Speaking only for myself, I’d never sell or trash a kit just because it has a few inaccuracies, I’d just try to correct them, especially if it’s the only one available in the scale I wanted… Like the 1/48 Modelcraft F-82… Hardly anything was easy about THAT monster, but it was the challenge of the build (and brother, it WAS a challenge, lol), and the way it looked upon completion that made it work for me, plus it was the only injection-molded 1/48th F-82 in the deck… So, “ya run what ya brung”, in the parlance of the street-stock drag-racers…
Also, it’s such a rare bird as far as kits go (and proto-types too), I’d have liked to have seen what you did with it… “Polishing a Turd” is a good way to showcase one’s modeling skills, and I love reading about those kind of builds… I may just have to find one now, lol (although the 50.00 price-tag is turn-off for a 1/32 kit) I may go with the HiPM version, since I build 1/48th way more than 1/32, and this review (and price-tag) is promising:
http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/axis/luft/privathe100d.htm
I’ve never built one, since I didn’t even know a kit of one existed until I saw your post, and for that, I thank you…
As for HiPM/MPM kits, I don’t know, I’m not well-versed in Eastern European kit manufacturers, although I’ve bout a few ICM and Smer kits in the past… Good luck with your project, and I look forward to seeing what you do with it!
Well put Hans ,It may be just me but I think the 1/48 in the last link you posted looks less like an HE100 than the 1/32 pix! Specifically in the canopy area.
I honestly don’t know… Comparing the kit pictures to the limited number of decent shots of a few of the 12 He 100s actually built is difficult, at best… Here’s a review of the 1/32 kit, and it looks ok to me, 'cept for that 78.00 price tag…
http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/axis/luft/kop100d.htm
Seems there may be an issue with the depth of the windscreen on the kit vs. the photos, but that’s about all I see (nothing a wood pattern and my vacu-former couldn’t fix)… But without line drawings and/or photos of the prototype sitting right next to the model on display, I just don’t see the problems indicated…
I understand and agree with most of what you said! I too have no problem correcting inaccuracies, I can, and often do overlook small ones. (“In my opinion”), this is not in the small catagory. When I first noticed this issue, I thought: Maybe I can cut out the exhaust, and re-position them, but then the nose and panel lines would appear to be leaning forward, so would have to fill them and re-scribe, And then it hit me, I just paid $53. + $9 postage!..I shouldn’t have to be doing this! Not for that kind of money! Yea,…If I paid under $20 for the kit, it would be a lot easier to bite the bullet, and deal with it! I agree that the HiPM 1/48 kit has issues with the canopy, but I feel this would be easier to fix, and overall, (“In my opinion”), the kit has a more correct shape. I understand nostalgia, and the fun of building something you had as a kid, but if I have the choice of Lindberg Stuka over Airfix Stuka,…I’m going to go with the Airfix kit. That’s just me. Dave.