AIRFIX HEINKEL 111 1/72 scale model kit - how to make it! 

I agree, something about the way Gary says it and means it. Usually he says it right about where most of us would, if we want to keep our sanity. ☕🐢

Years ago, as an impressionable cadet, I was visiting a Hunter maintenance hangar. On one (very much non-critical) part of an FGA9 was written "FITWID" in grease pencil. Innocently, I asked a nearby Chiefy what that meant. "Lad," he intoned in an indulgent way, " it means F*** It That Will Do". If it was good enough for the intrepid birdmen of the RAF, it's good enough for me!

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@@garys_stuff 😀👍

@@garys_stuff You have to set goals and know when it's done.

Makes me buzzing when I get a comment like this! So glad you are back in the hobby and if my videos help then that’s a massive bonus! Let me know how you get on, maybe join the Gary’s Friends’ Stuff group on Facebook to share your builds with a friendly and helpful bunch!

Yeah, no Lemmy or Philthy Phil figure for the flight crew…. Cheers Nik!

They were great - although sometimes the combat pairing seemed odd (Cessna Bird Dog v MiG-21?)

It's fun trying to get the right music for the videos without incurring a copyright notice from YT! So I use a site called Uppbeat, pay them a small amount each month and I can use whatever music and effects are on their site.

Thanks Volker! Mit freundlichen Grüßen!

I keep telling Airfix - do the Halifax before someone else (Italeri?) does!!!

+1 on the Halifax (1/48 too, I think would be a huge seller!)

Thanks man!

It's a nice kit and the undercarriage is probably just as fiddly as pretty much everything else I've done recently! At least it's pretty accurate and is very stable when it's all done. Masking set is really essential for this one unless you've a very, very steady hand!

I caught it on a tour with the B-17 "Sentimental Journey". A real loss when she went down.

Weird - YT has been doing odd stuff recently... Cheers Peter!

Yes it does!

Good tip! Cheers Randy!

Cool, thanks!

Not made the Hasegawa kit so I can't offer any comparison. The plastic isn't as snappy as in many Japanese kits I've seen. Airfix seem to specify a polystyrene with more softener or flow improver.

Thank you Anthony!

I used RLM65 light blue - which in Vallejo Model Air is 71.255

I've started using The Army Painter Air gloss varnish, let down with a bit of thinner (I use the one from spruebox.co.uk). It goes through a 0.3mm needle just fine, enough so i can see where it's going but not flooding it! Once I'm done I use Windsor & Newton Galeria matt through the airbrush, also slightly thinned.

@@garys_stuff Perfect, I will order some! Thank you.

Those are flaps - we are looking at the underside of the aircraft. Flaps originally didn't add much to the surface area - just look at a Spitfire for example with split flaps. They have a role in increasing effective lift for a given airspeed by deflecting air downward. Forcing the air downward results in an equal and opposite upward force on the airframe, extra lift for a given air speed, but also induces extra drag as energy has to be expended to create that downward motion. What this gave was a slower, steeper approach. Simple flaps, such as those on the He111, have a similar effect, but the drag component is slightly more complex as the flow over the upper surface is less controlled. Fowler flaps increase wing area first, e.g. the first 5 degrees or so an airliners flap movement, but then rotate to present a steeper face to the air, with slots used to help manage the upper surface flow. Fascinating stuff, it really is!

@@garys_stuff Cool... thanks Gary. Every day's a school day :)

I can only find the He.100 and He.112 fighter projects.

@@garys_stuff was basically same but upper gun rotated , thanks anyway 👍

I use a very light coat of spray primer first of all. This helps with painting the interior but also helps me when I'm looking at the fuselage join - gentle sanding along the seam shows where there are bits that need levelling off.

@@garys_stuff okay sounds great will do this in the future. Does the glue still work as well despite parts being lightly primed to begin with?

@@thomashood715 I've never had a problem, but for things like the seams in the fuselage you might want to just sand down the primer from the contact faces.

They are in the video, but I used RLM65 for the underside and RLM70 and RLM71 for the top.

@@garys_stuff Vallejo. Got it. Thanks. There are so many RLM paints, which all differ in shades, that it is nearly impossible to chose the right/best ones.

@Magua Nielsen It's all interpretation. The same paint will look different in 1/32 than 1/72, and that changes by available light, too.

@@NielsenDK-1 Don't get too hung up on this - go for what you like the look of. Bombers were basically RLM 65, 70, 71 all through the war; fighters changed a bit more. Sea planes were different again. Often the difference in gradation of colour on the upper surfaces was quite subtle. However, each factory had variation in paint shades, so RLM 71 was not a universal shade, although it was a universal colour. Additionally, units modified colours in the field. So, you actually get a fair bit of license in terms of the shade provided you stick to the colour (i.e. RLM 65 Sky Blue can be a tone/shade whiter or greyer than the Humbrol 65, for example). The 'best ones' are the ones that look best, I think. What you want is something that has some historical accuracy, but that you like the look of. The Osprey books give a good idea of colours and shades, as a starting point.

I’m using the Mk.1 eyeball, occasionally with close-up specs (+2 diopters from my prescription).

@@garys_stuff Thank you for your reply. Model on.

They don’t come with the kit, plus I have heard of complaints on YT about them resulting in content being de-monetised. So yes I agree they should be there, but there are reasons why not!

I'm not sure. I would have thought you could post the link that appears underneath the video as a share option?

You'd hate the Italeri Stirling then! A veritable engineer's nightmare, that gear.