- Member since
December 2002
- From: Whidbey Island, Washington
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Posted by chukw
on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:39 AM
Wow, thanks, guys! I may not get to put any time in on it for a couple of weeks, put I'll try to post more pix. To answer questions: it's 1/48 scale, I plan on putting on a compass swing (a kind of rotatable boom that holds the plane level so the master compass can be adjusted) so no bomb load, and I made the mask for the canopy interiors myself. I used a Waldron punch set to cut circular disks from a piece of acetate with some Tamiya masking tape stuck ot it. These worked great for the round corners of the windows- the rest was filled in with straight strips of tape. The skinny framework inside the lower canopy is from strips of a dark gray decal sheet. I'm not going to bother doing the inside oof the upper canopy's forward frames- it's really thin, and not as visible through all the open windows. I rebuilt the compass between the foot pedals, modified the bombardier's seat with a lead foil canvas back (folded flat), scratchbuilt an oxygen bottle for the pilot, detailed the bomb sight, added wiring everywhere- somebody stop me! You can see the Eduard bits inside the engine oil coolers, and the supercharger intakes have brass screens set into bits of tubing. Some funny things: the later He-111 variants used heavier-calibre guns, so all the saddle-clips for the light mgs and their multifarious racks are wrong, wrong, wrong! I should have scratched ammo boxes with belt feeds for the beefed-up defensive guns.... too late now, but it still looks nice and busy. I'll save that for the next one! ![Blush [:I]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_blush.gif)
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