ago (can’t remember its name), but
once again we must ask, ”why?”TWO LITTLE MOTORS
As usual with ICM’s offerings
you are supplied with a good
degree of engine detail is
supplied as standard. Each of
the Jumo 211 motors contains 19
parts, and once appropriately
painted they look pretty good.
No doubt some modellers will
add more pipes, tubes, and
leads, but they’ll do for me.
At this stage I was not sure if I
would leave them uncovered, as I
do not really do exposed engines.A CUNNING PLAN
Previous experience with models
of bombers with many guns has
highlighted what a clumsy ass I
am, and what a finely honed talent
I have for knocking such details off
during the final parts of the build.
Careful scrutiny of this one revealed
that by leaving the relevanttransparencies off until the very
end, I could avoid the ”sticky-out
gun syndrome” almost entirely. The
only pair I would have to fit would
be the two waist guns, and surely
even I could manage not to damage
those...so I fitted all the nasal
glazing with the exception of thehemispherical front section, which
allowed access to later fit the two
forward guns. The two transparent
gondola pieces were tacked and
pushed into place, to be glued in
permanently right at the end.
On the subject of transparencies,
I could not have completed the
model without New Ware’s canopymask set (NWAM0338). I’ll happily
tackle the odd Spitfire armed
only with masking tape and a
scalpel, but something like the
Heinkel demands outside help.
Each mask of the hundred or so
that I used fitted perfectly.
With the cockpit section, Iopted for the easy way of masking
and painting from the outside
only – RLM 02 Grau on first,
before primer and top colours. But
I did use the masks both inside
and out on the cockpit hatch and
the upper gunner’s canopy.ON THE OUTSIDE
With all the clear parts
appropriately masked and the
engines covered (I still had not
decided if I was going to close
them up), it was on with some
grey Tamiya Fine Surface Primer
to see how smooth it all wasn’t. A
little fettling was needed on some
panel joints and a blind eye was
turned to some of the others.
Know it was time to airbrush
some pre-shading on all the panel
lines. It was at this point that I,
and my compressor, began to
notice what a big model this is.
Normally during this process, the
time to take a break is when my
eyes go squinty. With the Heinkel
it was when the compressor
got so hot it was beginning to
glow. The whole airframe took
about two hours to complete.
The three main airframe
colours went on without drama- Hellblau RLM65 undersides
(Tamiya XF-23), and a splinter
camouflage on the topsides of
“THE ICM HE-111 IS A MODEL
WHICH I CAN RECOMMEND TO
ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR
EXPERIENCE OR EXPERTISE”
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