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Doing battle with Hasegawa's He 111P
Topic Started: Oct 28 2017, 04:25 PM (499 Views)
Ham
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Greetings mates,

Rant mode on.

As part of my Battle of Britain collection, I found the Hasegawa He 111P on sale a few years ago and picked it up. This was before Airfix released their He 111P. I started building the Hasegawa He 111P recently, figuring it was time to add a bomber to the collection. I figured it was a 21st century Hasegawa kit and should go together with no issues. Wrong! The wing to fuselage fit has been giving me fits. Especially on the bottom right side, the fit is terrible. The fuselage side of the assembly stands a few millimeters proud over the wing root. Closing the bomb bay doors only makes it harder to deal with. It is a constant cycle of fill, sand, prime and repeat. If I was going to do another Hasegawa He 111, I would ether leave the bomb bay doors open, or try and file down the right side wing root area of the fuselage before attaching the wings. Another builder said he added a piece of strip plastic to even up the join line.

I started this He 111, and I'm not going to give up on it, but I am a bit disappointed in Hasegawa. I would have expected better from their 21st century kits. I have since found some reviews where other builders had similar problems so this is not unique to my kit.

I have one more Hasegawa He 111H-2 in the stash but may off load it and get an Airfix kit. I was hoping to add a Jumo powered early H to the BoB collection.

Rant mode off.

Anyone else fought with this kit? How did you deal with the wing to fuselage fit issues?

cheers!

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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kingofmen
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Must be an He-111 curse of some sort. Remember what the Roden He-111C was like... :poo:
Kevin Callahan
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Timmay!
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That should be steaming pile, King. :rofl: Timmay!
Tim Treadway

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Harold K
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Ham, I built the "P" perhaps three or four years ago and found it to be a typical, straightforward Hasegawa experience.
I would certainly recall a situation such as you describe, but had none of that.
Maybe only a part of their production run had fit issues/defects like you describe? Stuff happens in modeling just as in life; go figure.
Box-shaker; hater of all things resin and photoetched.
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Steve N
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I've got one of the Hasegawa Heinkels, but haven't built it. Mostly because I built the Italeri kit a few years earlier (converted to a P.) The only thing that bothered me about the Hasegawa kit was the rather heavy-handed panel lines. Most of Hasegwa's WWII twins from that era had petite, refined panel lines, but for some reason a few, like the Heinkel and Ki-49, had really heavy ones. Different design team or software perhaps?

I tried dry-fitting a few bits of the Roden He-111C. I'd need some Xanax and hard liquor if I were ever to attempt to actually build the thing.

SN
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Harold K
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Steve N
Oct 29 2017, 03:59 PM
I tried dry-fitting a few bits of the Roden He-111C. I'd need some Xanax and hard liquor if I were ever to attempt to actually build the thing.

I've built the Roden A, B and E :mental:

A strong masochistic streak is a good substitute for the remedies you suggest, Steve :haha:

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erussell
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Harold K
Oct 29 2017, 05:16 PM
A strong masochistic streak is a good substitute for the remedies you suggest, Steve :haha:

Someone on the net published a guide to the Roden kit which seemed to solve the problems. I believe it's still up but I copied and saved it anyway as I intend to have a go.
Ed Russell at www.redroomodels.com
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Chuck1945
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There was a lengthy construction topic on ARC several years ago, I had access to Adobe Pro at the time and was able to save it all as a single PDF file.
Chuck
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