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Finally got my act together and started something, so let's get the preliminaries over with. Box art:

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If you look at the price lable it says 'Martin 1.75' - it has been stashed for a long time.

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Schemes. This will be a Battle of Britain period machine. Not sure if the aircraft sub-type is correct.

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Decals. Will they hold up?

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Parts. They look OK, except one of the fuselage halves had some plastic flake off like it was de-laminating. I managed to clean it up by brushing on some MEK then sanding. It may need bulking up again, got to decide on this.

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This will be an OOB non AMS build, so it was stick a few parts together, then squirt them with some paint. I didn't have any Grau 02 to hand so mixed some grey and green together. Good enough for me.

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I like the classic Heinkel He 111. Keep it up.

With pleasure!

Some more progress. Main components in sub-assemblies:

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And together:

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Quite a bit of filling required. In the spirit of a Matchbox build I made a late decision to include crew figures and have started to paint them.

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  • 2 weeks later...

That is looking good. Nice to include the MB crew!

If you are worried about the decals check a spare. I have found old MB decals stand up well.

When putting them down, clean all the old adhesive off them first. The put a pool of future/klear down and the decal on top. Put more klear on top; then wick the excess away. Sucks them old decals down really well.

Keep up the good work,

Julien

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A quickie update - crew painted and canopy masking done apart from the nose bubble (we hates masking canopies, yesss, it took ages), which I will leave off until near completion. Progress was impeded by ATC camp at RAF Odiham.

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My weekend programme shot to hell, usual SNAFU, not to mention a trip to the IPMS Avon show.

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I saw the "recent post" listing an He111 in the overall forum list and I'm glad I clicked it! Looks great!

Out of curiousity, only the 3 crew figures?

Oh, and you may hateses masking canopieses, but youses does a good jobs...ses.... :worship:

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Out of curiousity, only the 3 crew figures?

Yes, just the three. These old matchbox kits are very basic and have the minimum number of components.

Thanks for the encouraging words. :worship:

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Ive noticed this is fast becoming Britmodeler-US. Good thing, that.

As for the Heinkel I did one a long time ago and it ended up in the bin for no good reason but a move and clean out. I still have the Preiser Luftwaffe lilliputs I had planned to display with it. Maybe I need to hound up another He-111...

But who am I kidding - my eyes would pop out' their sockets messing with that thing. Off to find a Monogram version in 1/48....

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I made some progress whilst away - despite protests from the SO ('You're not taking all that gear are you?!') - and finished cleaning up and filling, then coated up with a greenish grey:

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Predictably the nose gun got broken off! After the paint had hardened up it was on with some unfeasibly heavy pre-shading:

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The Plan is that pre-shading will help to conceal the original Matchbox trenches without actually filling them in - it could of course backfire and simply over emphasise them, we will have to wait and see.

One thing I have noticed about that kit parts is that the U/C doors don't appear to be quite as asymmetric as plans and photos show them up to be.

I will be pushing on with this during the week, as I'm hoping to give it an airing at the Medway show.

peebeep

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