AIRFIX HEINKEL 111 1/72 scale model kit - what's in the box?
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Today I'm looking at the 2015 tooling of the Heinkel He111 bomber in 1/72 scale from Airfix. What do you get in the box?
00:00 Introduction
02:05 History of the He111
05:14 Kits of the He111
07:26 What's in the Box?
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My first ´big’ Airfix when I was a youngster. My Granny’s neighbour was RAF during the war and always told me how to paint them etc. A real gentleman too. RiP Mr Young.
I made the late 1960's kit as a fifteen year-old in the mid-seventies, just in time for Guy Fawkes night. It's about time I made It's replacement! This bomber and the Spitfire were classic shapes from WW2. Thanks for your review.
Got this kit for Christmas, glad to see you have done a review of it 👍 👍 👍
Another great video son 👏
I love looking at the kits that are out there.
I remember building the old Matchbox kit back in the day.
I've got three He 111 in my collection the old Airfix one the Frog and the Matchbox I'm so tempted to build the Frog one.
Keep up the great work son I'm glad you're feeling better 👍
Thanks Gary....It's on my list...
I was going to an airshow driving on the highway I heard those sound of military type of aircraft when all of a sudden a HE 111 fly over my head not a 100 ft up it was so cool
Matchbox 1980s he 111 with the different plastic parts .
Memories
Nice review, it will be interesting to see what it looks like when painted with how all the panel lines look on the kit looking forward to the build.
Great title shot with the 111 📸. Had to rewind back for the line about the smoking lounge and laugh at that irony. I always enjoy the kit and plane history you do, keep up the great work 👍☕🐢
Thanks Locha!
Thanks for the unboxing Gary the ways you put some history before the unboxing always adds to the video . Regards Gav.
Cheers marra 👍
It must have been 25 or 30 years ago when I saw the last flying CASA 2.111.
A great review Gary. The historical background was especially interesting.
Definitely getting this kit.Great video Gary 👍🏻
Here’s a one I have wanted to build for a while! I just never got round to it as I don’t currently own an airbrush. Can’t wait for the build though! 😄
Great video Gary! Love the history. Thanks for sharing. 😎🇨🇦
Hi Gary, Nice to get some history behind the various Aircraft you have featured so far. It's a great format. 👍 Also the kits which have been released in the past. Looking forward to the build. Happy Modelling 😊.
Goodness I remember building that MPC version back in the day.
Hi Gary. Interesting. I like your videos.
I had a Airfix Heinkel in the 1960s. I was disappointed that it had the turret, so was not BofB.
In the old days the panel lines were raised from the surface, so the panel line depressions are a step forward. For a scale gap they would be almost invissible. I wonder if they can be reduced by partial filling in. That would be a delicate operation. As for rivet/bolt details around the access covers would a hot pin do a good job? They would have to be carefully marked out first. As an alternative could some of them be inked in with, say a technical pen, with a darker shade of paint with those on the access panels with the odd bit of aluminium colour?
One of these really could look good with the torpedos and radar antenae.
Can you still get sheets of swasticas?
I can't help being impressed at just how much more detailed the current offerings are.
Compré recién el Italeri en el pasado por ahí por el año 1972 armé uno no recuerdo si era Airfix o Machbok, ahora con las nuevas técnicas imagino su resultado será otro
I remember getting a 111 kit as one of my Christmas presents in 1975 along with my bionic man action figure and timpo prairie rocket😂,it was in the light blue plastic they used a lot then mum helped me as it was she who built my kits until then not dad ,I painted it all over silver with black wheels it looked good for a 7 year old smooth finish better paint then I think 😊,we had a family friend who brought home kits from the factory in Wandsworth the ones without instructions but as they were free it was a matter of taking time one of the best he got me was a B29 I think 1/72 but I was a child so it looked big ,all the best mate
Mark 😊😊
Cheers Mark!
@@garys_stuff typos in the comment I’ve got a heavy cold mmm achooooo😔
Backbone of the early Luftwaffe, the He111 never did very much for me, as opposed to the Ju88 and the Douglas mediums. It's greenhouse is iconic, though, and I want to see you work on something simpler than the Spit while you're not feeling well.
Have at it!
Looking 4ward to build video.
Very interesting unboxing Gary. I built one of these as a schoolboy back in the sixties. I thought then that it was a great kit,but could never understand why the “transfers” didn’t include the iconic swastika on the tail.
Looking forward to seeing your build videos.
Cheers
Keith
You read my mind Gary! I was just typing that the Spanish IIIs were used in the film 'Battle of Britain' when you said it in the video :) I think they used some Spanish 109s too. BTW I noticed on the box art that none of the aircraft had squadron markings. Was that common in the FAA?
The crew members look to be the same figure three times, but a least they are present unlike some kits with no figures at all.
Rivets are always an issue. To scale they'd probably be invisible, so Airfix etc seem to go for giving the impression / flavour, and IMHO at least they get it about right.
What would be nice I think would be making STL files available online for 3D printing of figures, maybe to Airfix club members only, and/or record IP addresses and reciept details so people can't just send links to friends and/or get the figures free.
FAA squadrons had their own, strange methods of aircraft identification. In 1940 the three Skua squadrons on HMS Ark Royal were 800NAS (code A6), 801NAS (code A7) and 803NAS (code A8). The year previously A7 had been used by 803NAS on the same ship as 801NAS wasn't embarked. The last letter was a sequential one within the squadron. Codes were used by shore bases as well.
So, for example, the tail code A5 could have been seen on a Swordfish of 821NAS on HMS Ark Royal, a different Swordfish of 818NAS on the same ship, and Albacore or Lysander of 754NAS at Arbroath, a Walrus of 740NAS at Arbroath, an Albacore, Barracuda or Stinson Reliant of 753NAS at Arbroath or a Seafire III of 794NAS at Eglington depending on what the date was...
Definitely looks a bit soft. Also, why, when the have multiple crew figures, are they all in the same pose? Ian
The thing about figures is interesting. They tell me that the software they use for 3D design is aimed at built objects, pretty much coordinate based. Figures require a different, more fluid, organic type of 3D design. I suspect they have a catalogue of 3D crew figures in their system and they call those in whenever needed to be added to a frame, rather than create them from scratch. This can cause issues, for example one (I think) Harrier kit from Airfix in which the pilot had an Irvin jacket, Mae West and flying goggles!
After all it seems a decent model, most of the interior details logically couldn't be seen, so it isn't a real issue. For the crew surely there are after market figures, or, if someone has a 3D printer, could always make them.
Detail looks a bit meh! maybe look at a 1/48 kit for the Heinkel such a good subject and maybe 1/48 kit will have more detail. ICM do a few
variants
Yes, they do a He111Z as well in 1/48th!!!
👍✈️🇳🇿
Three words. Canopy mask set!
1 more word- decal (3 pronunciations per person limitation while supplies last 😜)
The Fench have won the linguistic battle with that word. I might settle for 'transfer' in the future.
Here's another seven words, he needs to get better at masking 😂, only joking Stuart.
Is that a bomb bay with NO bombs in it? Not good.
Makes you wonder how they decide if a plane is to have bombs or not. The Do.17z does have them, and the 'nose up' mounting in the He111 is an interesting, possibly unique, detail.
If the instructions give numbers for paint wouldn't it simplify them if they actually lightly colour rendered the assembly views instead of using that grey tone? grey looks awful and is actually a slightly pointless waste of ink. I know they are proud of the red bits but they just add to the riot of manic 'PHD in drawing instructions' that they've become. Internal parts in colour would benefit most and the exterior could be left as a line drawing seeing as there's a full colour guide for that at the back.
Having said that it is good to see detail appearing internally compared to the old kit, probably just as well as externally the He111 is an ugly looking toad of an A/C at best.