Take a good look because readers won’t see the He 111 engines anymore unless someone stumbled upon this blog after googling ICM He 111H-3 – Day 20…

All this effort…

Nice details… Starboard and

port…

ICM He 111H-3 is like a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece have to fit it precisely so all the others will fit in perfectly.

I don’t regret having assembled the engines but I will close up everything.

As it’s now becoming a running gag on My Forgotten Hobby III, I had forgotten to glue these parts, jumping instead to step 90.

As you can see I had no problem to insert them afterwards.

Parts C29 and C29 had been glued in my haste to see how they would fit.

 

In step 89 ICM called for gluing parts C27 and C28. There was no way to join them precisely with the instructions and try to fit them after.

So I had to improvise. Parts C24 and C24 were added first.

Then came parts C34 and C34 next.

Lo and behold! They would not fit because of the intakes!

 

So I had to cut the intakes off and scraped away some plastic.

 

This is where I am right now.

Tomorrow should be just another uneventful day on My Forgotten Hobby III.

 

Although I still enjoy building ICM He 111-H3 I still believe it is over engineered. I guess I will have to live with that.

I had glued these parts the night before to get a head start and the fit was perfect.

However I noticed yesterday afternoon that I should have done step 81 first.

 

 

It did not matter since I had skipped step 82. It turned to be a good decision because step 81 was not a great fit after all.

 

 

Parts C5 and C48 in step 85 were glued but will be added tomorrow.

All the parts from steps 89 to 93 were cut from the sprues and will be assembled and glued tomorrow.

I hope they will be looking like these, but I doubt it.

 

Tomorrow I will show you how it went.

Thanks to Plane Dave’s advice I finally glued the engines in place yesterday afternoon. 

I am glad I have been waiting that long because I would have broken something.

Step 82 will be next later today since my three year-old grandson is babysitting his grandfather. Steps 83 and 84 had already been done and parts glued to the wings.

Steps 85 to 92 will follow later this afternoon.

All clear parts will be set aside for painting in the spring.

Tomorrow I will show you pictures of where the project stands right now.

 

I have not been idle yesterday while I was waiting for the glue to dry.

I glued more of the wings this morning.

 

 

Work still has to be done on the the wings before the engines are added. Also I have to decide if I will expose them in plain view.

 

 

All the clear parts will be added probably in December maybe even later in the spring when I can use my airbrush outside.

I have assembled the landing struts and the wheels.

 

If you look closely you will see I have fashioned a wire to replace one of the parts. Step 110 will be done much later because I don’t want the landing gear in the way. 

Step 111 has been done.

Tomorrow I will glue the engines and we’ll see what happens.

 

 

There was no way I could proceed further without glueing the wings.

The port side went well but the starboard needed some surgery because there was a large gap where the engine will go.

The wings have not been glued completely for that reason.

That will be done tomorrow and I expect I will be using lots of masking tape and probably my vise grip.

One enjoyable moment though was glueing the foldable seat. You can plainly see it here and also where the masking tape will be used tomorrow.

This is how I replaced the broken part using the same kind of wire I had used for the broken gun ring.

I have learned to improvise.

Both homemade parts will be visible. I have to say they look good.

Not perfect but few people will notice the difference unless they compare it with these.

I have succeeded to glue the warped fuselage parts using extra-thin cement and Tamiya tape.

A little filing is all that will be needed.

I then encountered this problem. The bomb rack would not fit it so I had to cut away some plastic.

Again no one will notice…

Which brings me to these steps.

 

I followed the instructions, but step 77 should have come before step 75. It was almost impossible to attach these parts.

 

I will fix it later but again no one will never know.