Revell 1:72 Heinkel He70 "Blitz" - learning by doing, part 2

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OK, I've actually made a start on this now - photos to follow. So far I have:

- Painted the instrument panel black, watched the paint recoil from the surface in blobs, wiped it off and tried again with that Adeptus Battlegrey primer from Citadel, which stuck.

- Assembled the cockpit/passenger compartment baseplate.

- Painted the interior of the cabin grey. Once dry, stuck the windows in (managed to smear glue over one of them

- Stuck the wings together, including the pitot tube. Unfortunately the glue for the pitot tube dribbled slightly and now there are rectangular clothes-peg shaped prints on the upper and lower wing rendered in liquid poly. Hopefully they'll sand off OK.

- Assembled the engine section.

All of which means that I know of what I speak when I say this is a rubbish kit. Nothing fits together without much trimming, sanding and persuading, many of the smaller pieces (such as the engine exhausts) are blobby and slightly misshapen, and a lot of parts are just stuck one to another with no pins, lugs, guide grooves etc.

At least I'll get plenty of practice in filling and fettling, but I think the end result might be destined for use as a test-bed...

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Just putting on the decals now - I'll save the photos for the finished article.

Continuing the rubbish kit theme, the decals are a Right Pain to put on, lots of long stringy dangly ones and the D-UTIM lettering is particularly bad - the TIM letters are linked by a thin bar at the top only, as they've crammed some smaller decals between the letters on the sheet. When I do the top wing I'll just cut them apart and apply them separately, I think.

I've promised my 3-year-old I'll hang this one from her bedroom ceiling, so I'm just making it presentable and moving on at this stage.

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Finally got around to taking a picture, now it's hanging from the nipper's ceiling and I've put some new batteries in the camera.

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