Andy's 1:48 ICM HE 111

[Mickc1440]

Love the look of this aircraft, recently and reluctantly sold my 1/32 scale one as wouldn’t have had anywhere to put it. This one’s coming along nicely matey so I’ll def join the rabble

[Mark1]

A nice looking kit this one.

[flyjoe180]

Coming along nicely Andy, those engines look good

[The Smythe Meister]

Smifffy looking very nice mate. It looks very well detailed.

Cheers Scottie,yes,it is

Love the look of this aircraft, recently and reluctantly sold my 1/32 scale one as wouldn’t have had anywhere to put it. This one’s coming along nicely matey so I’ll def join the rabble

Hi Mick, good to see you, it's big enough in 1/48,so don't blame you for moving the 1/32 one on!!

A nice looking kit this one.

It is Mark, I'd recommend it

Coming along nicely Andy, those engines look good

Thanks Joe,they were a bit fiddly in places, but very nice.

Well, after the shock and misery of the last ten days or so,I haven't felt like posting or doing much to this at all really.
However, I did make some progress before it all kicked off,and yesterday/today I dragged myself back to the bench and tackled various things, which I'll post up later.

[Si Benson]

Good to hear you’ve got yourself to the bench….a little bit of normality, well as NORMAL as us moggelers are

[The Smythe Meister]

.... Cont'd...
So this is what I did before my world went wrong!!...
Landing wheels,engines, guns,exhausts,seats etc..



... and the recent tackling of the masks...

I was going to try and reuse the set, external ones for the inside as well, but didn't trust being able to lift them off for the internals,so I cut some from masking tape as you can see,they look a bit ropey there,but should be ok?!! And here's the external ones..

Didn't show both sides obviously,but hopefully it'll come out ok,it's now all been primed and given a shot of the internal grey,(which looks Green to me!!),
So that's it for now ....

[Mark1]

Looking good mate, tis an effort to get to the bench sometimes but before you know it a couple hours have passed and its took your mind off of crap for a while which is always nice. :thumb2:

[The Smythe Meister]

Good to hear you’ve got yourself to the bench….a little bit of normality, well as NORMAL as us moggelers are

Thanks Si,yes, we're a strange lot eh?... :thinking:

Looking good mate, tis an effort to get to the bench sometimes but before you know it a couple hours have passed and its took your mind off of crap for a while which is always nice. :thumb2:

Cheers for that Mark,it definitely is a way to try and escape from reality... something that can be a god send at times :thumb2:.

I've done some more bits, pics aren't great,and there's not much "commentary", sorry about that, hopefully I'll be back to my usual style of blogging soon....






That's it up to now, the internal stuff needs some explaining at some point, but for now, it's mainly together and fitted pretty well.
Until the next time, cheers for now...

[Tim Marlow]

That’s coming along nicely Andy. Excellent work on the interior, always my favourite part of the build…..

[scottie3158]

Coming on very nicely matey.

[The Smythe Meister]

That’s coming along nicely Andy. Excellent work on the interior, always my favourite part of the build…..

Thanks Tim,the etch has been fiddly and I haven't used all of it by any means, but enough to make it look fairly detailed :thumb2:

Coming on very nicely matey.

Cheers Scottie, it's taking shape now :nerd:.

Some more progress......
The instructions say to chop off the tail end at this point if you're doing the bomber version, for the MG,(I didn't even know they had one!! ),


I'd have done this when the fuselage halves were separate if I'd realised, would've been much easier, however...

The replacement tail was then added,as were some Wingy bits...



Man this thing's big... Bigger than I'd expected anyway!! I've always loved the look of a 111,and this has just made that love even stronger,such a cool beast I reckon :smiling3:

[Mark1]

That is a fair old size,taking shape nicely.

[The Smythe Meister]

That is a fair old size,taking shape nicely.

Cheers Mark,it sure is!

So then,moving on,engines are fitted....
and then I came across some fit issues......,after putting the engine covers on the wing didn't fit, actually it was WAY out,resulting in having to chop out the guiding rails.....


With slowly moving around the wing in stages,gluing, clamping, waiting after each "area",I got it to fit much better,but not perfectly....

You can see that I've removed the covers on the other side,as I wanted to check that the method worked before committing to it......

There you can see the gaps that I am left with,hence my question re "Sprue Goo" last night! All in all I'm quite chuffed as the initial fit was SO poor that it was almost binable!!
I looked on Britmodeller and YouTube where I found a couple of guys who had the exact same problems,so it isn't something I've done wrong!
Anyway,going to do the other wing this afternoon,so hopefully progress afterwards will be a bit less stressful!!
As always, thanks for looking in
Cheers for now.....

[scottie3158]

Looking good mate great work on getting the wings to work.

[Waspie]

Andy, regards the upper wing fit, could you not trim the arrowed section as below? Would that give you a better fit???