Captured He-119 V10 - DEAD!

[PR19_Kit]

It may do, but I've never used the UV stuff yet, and I don't really want to try it on something as fragile as this thing.

[scooter]

It may do, but I've never used the UV stuff yet, and I don't really want to try it on something as fragile as this thing.

Test first, by knocking something together up that may be as fragile as the struts you're working on.

[The Wooksta!]

Would using UV setting resin as the glue be an option? You probably wouldn't need much and it can be filed to remove any lumps.

I've tried it - to reinforce damaged undercarriage legs - and it didn't work.  A thin coat of superglue painted on is better.

[PR19_Kit]

I did the 'painted on superglue' trick last night, and this morning it's not looking too bad. The starboard float has all its struts and the latter firmly glued in place and it feels reasonably rigid. The port one only has one strut glued in place, the other strut's been swallowed by  the Carpet Monster, and the ladder's snapped in half!

I see some scratchbuilding in my future, and the V10 may end up with only one ladder, the Captain will just have to climb over the propshaft to get to his seat...............

[PR19_Kit]

Well, that's it, the He 119 V10, such as I originally planned it, is DEAD!

After scratching up another strut to replace the lost one, and after trimming and re-gluing the water rudders on for the FOURTH time, I was measuring up the existing ladder to see if one I had from my railway modelling stash would do, when the model slid sideways and bashed one float on my arm. It snapped off, and the then unbalanced model fell off onto the floor and the OTHER float snapped off.

After that the whole model bounced off the wall 'cos I threw it there, I'd had quite enough of all that struttery!     

I can't turn it into a landplane as I've already laboriously fitted the supplied blanking plates to till the gear bays, and there's a hefty ventral fin covering the tail wheel bay too. In the fullness of time I may scratch up some much heavier duty struts, like the single leg ones on Spitfire floatplanes, but right now what's left of it is going back in the box.

Enough is enough!

[kerick]

Sometimes it's the only answer!

[loupgarou]

1) The joys of limted run kits...
2) You could turn it in a landplane with fixed gear and SPATS   

[PR19_Kit]

2) You could turn it in a landplane with fixed gear and SPATS 

Hmmm, there's an idea. the late Brian Da Basha would LOVE that! 

For the record, this is as far as I got painting and decalling it, and there's MEANT to be RAF Dark Green patches all over it to cover up the Luftwaffe markings.

[Wardukw]

That's a shame mate but it does make ya feel better when a little bit of violence is used 

Lou's right..fixed landing gear ...it's like some late prototype where it used fixed gear just to see how it handled in flight .
Hell that Arado 4 engined swept wing bomber the Germans built near the end of the war had fixed landing gear..four of em 😳 😬

[PR19_Kit]

Maybe a take-off trolley and some skids for landing, like the Ar-234A?

Ah, they'd have to do something with the prop of course................

[Wardukw]

Maybe a take-off trolley and some skids for landing, like the Ar-234A?

Ah, they'd have to do something with the prop of course................

Ohh nice   
Me163 style ...so modern and backwards at the same time 😆
It'll need a bloody tall skid tho ..those props ain't small 🤔☺️

[Rheged]

Much sympathy!   Suggestion:- a diorama with the aircraft hauled up a slipway with the broken floats beside it and a crowd of RAF officers viewing the wreckage.

[frank2056]

Kit - my sympathies. Can you either do spats or add solid float support, like the Aichi M6A1 Seiran? I think spats would look great.

[PR19_Kit]

Yeah, the Seiran's system is the one I was thinking of when I mentioned the Spitfire floatplane.

While I like the idea of the spats, they wouldn't go to well with the high altitude PR aircraft scenario though.

[Gondor]

I have some "aerofoil" section plastic rod of various sizes that you are welcome to Kit, to replace the parts in the kit as you see fit. If you are interested I will bring them with me to Telford.

Gondor