Captured He-119 V10 - and COMPLETED!

[Rick Lowe]

All I have to do is do the starboard one the same.................... 

That will be the trick.

Have at it, Good Sir - we're all behind you! 

[Wardukw]

Yep...what Rick said   

[PR19_Kit]

Here's the starboard float before it's glued in place. You can just about see the little fuse wire pegs sticking out of the top of the struts. Drilling those holes was NOT the easiest job I've done!



That strut assy. needed a bit of PSR, unlike its mate on the other side, but otherwise it's identical. Hopefully the bracing struts will be equally identical to those on the other side. I've cut them to size, but have yet to file them to an airfoil section, THAT'S not easy either as the struts are SO small.

[Old Wombat]

Hopefully they're mirror-image & not identical.

[Rick Lowe]

Would sanding the strut stock to the correct airfoil and then cutting the lengths off work?

[PR19_Kit]

Hopefully they're mirror-image & not identical.

Actually they are identical, the floats are totally symmetric.

Would sanding the strut stock to the correct airfoil and then cutting the lengths off work?

That'd be even MORE sanding! 

They're about 35 mm long as they are, just about 'holdable'.

[PR19_Kit]

The 119 has all it's parts glued in place now, both floats, all the bracing struts and the prop. Plus I scratched a couple of new water rudders, which DON'T hit the ground when 'retracted', so that's all the assembly done.



Not only that, the struts are parallel, an even larger miracle!



There's a LOT of paint touching up to do though, and that'll be pretty fiddly with the floats in place. Plus I have to write a bit of a gotcha in the backstory to overcome the problem that Halfords current version of Rover Inca Yellow is NOTHING like their older version!    I may have to do a LOT of weathering too.....

[Wardukw]

Damn that looks cool mate 👌 👍
Bloody nice work with those floats ...might look simple but that's it's definitely not.

[Rick Lowe]

, the struts are parallel, an even larger miracle!

Well Done, That Man! 

Damn that looks cool mate 👌 👍
Bloody nice work with those floats ...might look simple but that's it's definitely not.

Correct on both counts! 

[PR19_Kit]

Painting those struts last night was a real PITA! There was a lot of 'touching up' to do on  the yellow underside and on the RLM Dark Green/Black Green floats too, but the use of patches of RAF Dark Green made it work OK, as it is, of course, a captured aircraft. 

Just a bit more to do today and it should be finished this evening.

[PR19_Kit]

I think I'll give up building prop planes, the blades ALWAYS snap off! 

Just lost one off the He 119 now, while detail painting it, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Old Wombat]

I think I'll give up building prop planes, the blades ALWAYS snap off! 

Just lost one off the He 119 now, while detail painting it, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Maybe you should try Dizzy's rod & tube method, so you can remove the prop's when necessary?

[frank2056]

Great job on the floats ! The struts look good.

If the prop isn't meant to turn, I use a paper clip or wire to let it turn. It doesn't make sense to glue the prop in place - how do you fly it around the room with a prop glued in place?

[PR19_Kit]

Maybe you should try Dizzy's rod & tube method, so you can remove the prop's when necessary?

Maybe I should have, but doing that with an He 119 where the prop shaft goes right down the centre of a glass cockpit would not have been simple.

It's glued back on now and ALL the panting stuff has been done. It just needs a coat of matt varnish and that's IT!

[PR19_Kit]

At last the He 119 V10 is DONE. 

A final coat of matt varnish, after masking the canopies, AND knocking off a prop blade of course, finished off the job today, thank goodness.





Here it is in all its weirdness, and in Luftwaffe camo which no 119 ever carried in the RW of course.



And the bit that everyone wants to see, the cockpit with its propshaft running right down the MIDDLE! One of the two panels is mounted ON the shaft even. 



The aft end showing the small compartment for the camera driver, the water rudders on the aft end of the floats and the crude roundels and 'AirMin' number scabbed on with RAF paint, like a large amount of the colours on this aircraft.



One underside view to show the RAF Dark Green patches around the float attachment points (see the backstory when I've posted it....)



And another showing the camera ports and the centre exhausts for the DB 606 'twinned' engine.



And a close up of that section. I just hope the exhaust smoke didn't pollute the camera ports..............

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The lengthy, and complex backstory will be linked here when a) when I've finished writing it and b) once it's posted.