Thanks all,
Gregor, you know I really wanted to build a 1/48 HE-111 for the BOB/BOF group build thing but couldn't find one, This is as close as I could find to that and I guess I want taken by it's 'esotericness' if that is a word.
Your question is a good one though. I may do another one, but if I do it will not be this large. My 'thinned and brushed on' painting technique seemed to work much better on the two smaller planes I did before this, a Zero and Stuka.
The thing I am most bummed out about is all that glass in the front.I put those pieces on and I swear they were good and clear but later after the glue dried they were all clouded up. I don't know why, maybe I had fried chicken grease on my fingers when I did them. So earlier this week i made the command decision to try to fix it. I took the top front one off, being the easiest to remove andwashed in in dish detergent. It was still clouded. So I put a coat of Future on th inside and wow - it got clear again. So...being smart I thought, I took the front nose cone glass off with my little PE fret saw and using a small brush, put future on the inside of the nose glass windows, That was an improvement, all except the nose cone piece itself - which got worse, clouded up almost opaque white, only after I had reattached it, of course ad it stands out like a sore thumb.
I don't know how people make the models I see here that are so...perfect. I just don't know. But it will be the best HE-115 on my shelf, that's for sure -