He119...with added meatballs!...

[Zeke]

Hello all...well it's Bank Holiday Monday over here in the UK and I've been left alone to my own devices while the wife goes off horse-riding...
I felt in the mood for a bit of butchery...so here we go...
It all starts with this innocent looking He-119, the V-5 variant with the big fat floats...neat...



and an idea that it would look good as a rather differnt kettle of fish shaped things...



so it was gathered together with some random bits and pieces...



And the hacking began...HA HA HAAAA...chainsaw on standby everybody...

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

I can already see where this is headed....... Go Steve 

Ian

[Zeke]

I shall go...

the nose section was given a spray of Halfords finest White plastic primer and rubbed down...I knew that this was going to be a real problem because this area on the kit is just vac-form canopy...



and a problem it was too...I tried to drill out the top decking and put a couple of plastic tubes in there so that I could slice them off and make gun-troughs...but the vac-form just isn't strong enough and it all turned to crud...fuksocks!...



so I had to make a new nose section entirely out of Milliput, gun bit's moulded in, of course...



and that will have to do for today cos I have to wait for that to set and be all hard for the following sanding and scribing/drilling of details...

but at least it gave me a chance to work on the cockpit bits...




more updates to follow...just got to work out some good markings for it now...

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

What about that peculiar purple tone seen on Formosa based aircraft - mainly IJA machines, but I recall a (very) old artwork of a 'Pete' wearing it too.

Or

That vivid yellowish orange they painted their trainers in.....

Back to you.

Ian

[Draken35]

Stunning!

[GTX]

What scale was the original He-119?

Regards,

Greg

[Zeke]

Originally it was 1:72 greg...but it's going to be 1:48 when it's finished...so it's going up a scale...

While the nose is hardening I've been working on the wings, so we get a bulge in the upper surface for the machine gun breech...



and the leading edge gets a counterbored hole for the gun barrel to be fitted into a little bit later



I also did some breech bulges on the nose decking, so it's looking a little less smoooth than the original...now with added lumpy bits...yum!




and that really is it for today now chaps...time to give my poor old bones a rest...

[Weaver]

Good God - and all I managed to do today was faff around with a few decals......

Excellent project! 

[Sisko]

I really like this project!!!!!

Go man go!

[NARSES2]

I seriously don't know wether to laugh or cry. That original 119 was beautiful, but what you're doing looks amazing work

[JayBee]

Hey! What is the Japanese for "Porco Rosso"?

This is looking GREAT.

[sequoiaranger]

My "Aichi 119" will also have meatballs **WITH** German insignia, too.

I like how this is looking, but I'm just a little sad that that BEAUTIFUL float He-119 had to be sacrificed!

[Vulcan7]

very cool work & amazing cockpit detail Zeke  , the original build looks great too 

[Zeke]

just a quick update...

nose guns have holes for the barells added...look like 20mm cannon to me...and the milliput nose is smoothed off...




cockpit area has been prepped for insertions...oooer!...



and the wing has had a cartridge case ejection chute and panel put into the underside...



I've actually got the cockpit stuff fitted, including the canopy but no piccies yet...that'll be in the next update I think...probably tomorrow now...gotta go to work this afternoon, I mean, don't they know that I have important kit alterations to do?...How rude!...

[cthulhu77]

Great execution !  Very believable.