1/72 Airmodel Heinkel He 118 V-1

by Matthias Simon

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History:

The Heinkel He 118 had been designed as a competitor of the "Sturzkampfbomber" program for a definitive divebomber. This machine was certainly the most advanced contender. However the RLM decided to produce the Junkers Ju 87 at the end.
The V-1 flew in late 1935 with a British engine (Rolls Royce Buzzard), which gave her a max speed of about 395 km/h. The V-4 and V-5 had been given to Japanese Navy and Army. Ten A-0 pre-production machines had been built. 

The Kit:

Just to build an easy kit between all those, who need more time, I decided to build the new Airmodel 1/72 scale resin kit of the He 118. The new molding technique allows assembling without much work, which is normally needed for cleaning all the kit parts. I painted most of the  small parts on their sprues,

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As I mentioned, assembly had been very simple. No different from other resin kits. Fit itself was good. I painted the model in RLM 63 overall with colours from Testors. The bigger tactical codes had been applied using masks. For the smaller ones I used letters from TL-Decal Germany who are offering very nice decals.
Well.... a lot of fun at the end and beside an early Junkers Ju 87 A and  Arado Ar 80 an interesting part of aircraft history....
an idea maybe for the future :-)

Best regards 

Matthias

Photos and text © by Matthias Simon http://www.airmodel.de