1/48 HiPM HE-100D

Frank,

Thanks! The effort was worth the results. As always I appreciate compliments from accomplished builders such as yourself.

Soulcrusher,

Thanks for looking!

Jmabx,

Thanks. The atenna wire is invisible thread thread painted black. My wife picked it up for me at the fabric/sewing supply store.

Phonetics,

Thanks. New to the forum?

Nicefit,

Thanks for looking. How's the P-40B coming along?

yep that sure does look great, nice one!

excellent tips on the cockpit wash and the panel lines, good question too Dobby. i'll definately be trying those on my next aircraft.

Beautiful work Tom... She's a beauty!

What did you use for your antenna wire?

Well done Tom. It looks like you whipped that short run kit right into shape.

                                                                                               Soulcrusher

Tom-

That really is an outstanding build, bravo!  You mention the shortcomings and errors, but in the photos I see none of those.  Just a well built and beautifully painted model.  You should be rightly proud of this one, and I must admit- Now I have to get myself one of these!

I'm calling the HE-100 finished!!!

For those of you who did not see this post in the Prototype GB the end of this build revealed the shortcomings of this short run kit. The 3 piece canopy I planned to use so the cockpit could be viewed did not fit. So I ended up using the 1 piece which fit slightly better. Other than the wheels the rest of the landing gear parts were poorly molded and difficult to assemble. Then there was the stupid mistake of dipping the wing tip in super glue (I did a seperate post on this and see I'm not the only person afflicted with this condition. We should give it a name.

Anyway I am very happy with the end result. Here's some pics.

Thanks for looking.

Dobby,

Just got back in town. Hope you had a good 4th. I work with enamels so I can't say for sure but I did thin the enamels more than usual and sprayed several very light coats.

Hope this helps.

Guy,

Thanks for looking.

Cheers

This looks like a great kit. Your work in the pit has really paid off.

Great work on one of Germanys prettier looking 'Shouldhave beens'.

...Guy

Mucker,

Thanks! I've really enjoyed this build so far.

Tom:

Great progress on a cool bird! Looking forward to more pics!

Frank,

Thanks for the compliment and the suggestion!

Excellnt paint work Tom!  I see what you mean about the underside color obliterating the pre-shading, but I still think it looks very good.  Perhaps a little post-shading to re-accentuate the detail. 

I am really enjoying your work here, top shelf stuff my friend.

Chuk,

Thanks! Well summertime has finially arrived in Chicago, straight from cool and rainy to 100+ heat indexs! I'm not complaining though, been waiting for warm weather for months. I imagine many people are busy outdoors or on vacations.

I however have managed to squeeze some time in on my HE-100. So here's the update.

1) I decided to make my first attempt at preshading panel lines. The first 2 pictures are the panel lines done with RLM66 Schwargrua.

2) The underside is painted RLM65 Hellblau lightened with about 25% flat white. I should have listened to my 15 year old's advise and forgone the last coat as it pretty well covered the presahed areas. Oh well live and learn.

3) The top side is done in a splinter camo of RLM70 Schwargrun and RLM71 Dunket Grun both lightened with about 25% flat white. I think I did a better job on the RLM71 as far as the preshading being more visible. The RLM 70 is so dark it completely covers the preshading.

Hope to do a gloss coat, decals, a wash, and maybe final assembly this weekend.

Thanks for looking. As always comments and suggestions welcome.

PS - Attended my first IPMS local chapter meeting last night hosted at Minicraft Models. Very enjoyable. I also scored a 1/35 Dragon Smart Kit Jagdpanther for $5.00 worth of raffle tickets!

Nice, Tom- Glad to hear it's a worthy kit- and you're doing a worthy job on it!

Cheers!

chuk

Nice work so far Tom.  Keep us posted.

Regards,  Rick

Glad to see you post some more work on this one. The cockpit looks good. its nice to see a plane that is not done that often. Looking foward to seeing it with some color on it. I might have to pick one up now that I see it is an pretty decent kit.

                                                                                           Soulcrusher

Nice work so far!

I've had this kit hiding in my stash for some time now and it looks like a fun build... not too many headaches.

I can't wait to see how it comes out... might give me inspiration to start mine.

I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted an update. I am however making some progress.

Finished cockpit with PE seat belts provided with the kit.

Cockpit side walls with PE details(provide with kit) and a wash to bring out details.

Major parts assembled and seams filled. For a short run kit it did not require excessive filling.

I need to rescribe some panel lines, add some small parts and then on to paint.

Thanks for looking. Comments and suggestions welcome.

Karl,

Thanks for looking. The He-100 probably is sleeker being designed for spped first and combat second.

I too saw the 1/32 scale He-100. My 1/32 scale builds hang from my boy's bedroom ceilings. Unless the wife let's me decorate our ceiling I'll be sticking to 1/48!

Tom, looks like being a cool build.

I always thought the He100 a better looking machine than the 109. 

I noticed Special Hobby are releasing a 1/32 He100 now.

Karl

Tom the He 112 is the 1/48 Classic Airframes offering. It is not the most impressive short run kit especially compared to most of the other Classic Airframes offerings. I should know I have 25  other Classic Airframe kits stashed away! I have not yet built it but from what I see of your   He 100 it looks to be around the same level of quality. They pop up from time to time on eBay and they can be a little hard to find. It would look really cool next to have both of them in the display case side by side that is why I was thinking about grabing the HiPM kit when I saw it.

                                                                                            Soulcrusher

Soulcrusher,

Thanks! What scale is the HE-112? Any pics? If so, love to see them.