Baby powder or Talcum powder is what makes putty...so real men use ...
Your mileage may vary and I am sure the formula used by Tamiya and Squadron is different. Back in the day when men walked miles/kilometers to the Local hobby shop...legends live on with T-shirts. 😉

I sanded the filler and sprayed some primer on the He-111.

Here's how it looked before the primer.

And after. I sprayed it on heavy in a few places to fill in some minor pin holes.

The underside of the fuselage looked great and will be ready for painting after it gets wet sanded with some ultra fine 3,000 grit paper.

The sink mark located just behind the cockpit is also ready for painting...

As is the area behind the dorsal gunners position.

Found this very clear shot of a downed He 11 I thought might be interesting...

1 attached image. Click to enlarge.

Reminds me of this David Low cartoon that appeared in a British newspaper during the Battle of Britain. One of two guys is asking for directions (getting ready for possible invasion, all direction and place name signs were removed) The local says "Go own the road past the Dornier, then left at the Junkers, then on to the Messerschmidt..."

Now that the FW-190's have been completed, I'm back in business with the He-111's...

After studying the Monogram He-111 that was gifted to me many years ago (and still not finished) I decided that I would tackle the wing join on my build in a different way... This is the plane that I had originally intended to complete for this build but decided against it after seeing just how much sanding and filling would be involved.

I started out by test fitting the wings against the fuselage. Overall, here the fit was decent. I took a few swipes with a sanding stick to get the fit even better. Once I was happy with how the wings fit, I committed myself to the plan and commenced gluing...

I glued the top wing section on first. I got carried away and had most of the wings installed before I realized that I didn't take any pictures... Ooops.

So this photo shows how I glued the Starboard side upper wing in place... Topside first. This is how I installed the other side and it turned out better than I hoped for. This is a deviation from the kit instructions, as they would have you completely build the wings, then install them as a completed unit.

Here you can see that the fit actually turned out quite well at the wing root / filet areas.

There was a slight trade off, and that was the leading edge of the wings just inboard of the engine nacelles was off in alignment, once the remaining portion of the wing was glued together.

Here you can see what I'm talking about.

The Starboard side was worse than the Port side was. I'm hoping that it will be much easier to sand away the high spots on the leading and trailing edges than it would have been dealing with the wing root joints.

Here's how the Port side looks at the moment. I'm hoping this will sand out fairly easy using a sanding block to keep things flat.

This next photo shows how the Monogram kit looks now that I have installed the wings.

and the parts pile is dwindling away, little by little... Here's what is left now.

Calling it a night...

As usual, Comments are Encouraged...

Bernard,
You hit post number 100 !

Cool... 🙂

Thats a great technique installing the wings that way on the fuselage. I tend to do that as well, it minimizes the work around the fillet or wing to fuselage join area. Doesn't always work for the best, just makes clean up easier around the wing to fuselage join. Your Fw project was amazing by the way. Good job on that. Looking forward to more on this He-111 project.

Thanks gents for the kind words... I'm very pleased with how the FW's turned out. Now they are done, I can get cranking on these two time permitting. I would rather work on seam lines at the leading and trailing edges of the wings, since it's easier for me than dealing with losing details at the wing root joint. Sometimes it does make for more work though. On this Monogram kit I decided that I would take my chances... So far it's been OK. Lucky I caught the landing gear doors when I did. It would have been next to impossible to install them once the engine nacelles were added on.