Heinkel He 112
May 8, 2023 17:50:07 GMT -4
Post by DAVE "THE DUKE" ARMSTRONG on May 8, 2023 17:50:07 GMT -4
Heinkel He 112
This is a bit of an oddity, not the plane, but the way this build came to be.
Over 20 years ago, I was steaming along, building happily, when I was struck with an auto-immune disorder. I was working on this, had it not too far from done, and it stopped me cold. I shoved this into a corner of the garage, and spent the next years trying to recover.
I eventually got back to building again, but I dove into the cars that I built, avoiding my planes- I kind of felt that I'd been jinxed or something. Rick spent years trying to get me to pick them up again. You guys know the story on that, with that build- "something Rick wanted me to do", in the "IN HONOR OF RICK" section.
As I recovered, and built new models, I spent years avoiding looking at this, bad memories. I finally decided to do something about this- preserving what I had done in the past, but getting it finished and "on the shelf" so to speak.
I had to literally wash the dust off of it. I decided not to repaint it, but to preserve the manner in which I started. I hope to think my skills have gotten better over the years since then, I like to keep my old builds and see my progress rather than rebuild something. I did some touching up; went to decal the plane- it had been planned to be of the IV Gruppe JG 132; the decals were by now old and crapped out on me, and I decided not to buy some more to continue that. I had a lot of great after market decals in my stash, so I just went with those. Installed the landing gear, and done. I don't put any wires on any builds- out here in the desert, they're just magic dust collectors.
The build quality is not perfect; but for me, it's a sort of "save" for me, and taking a poke at a jinx.
This is a bit of an oddity, not the plane, but the way this build came to be.
Over 20 years ago, I was steaming along, building happily, when I was struck with an auto-immune disorder. I was working on this, had it not too far from done, and it stopped me cold. I shoved this into a corner of the garage, and spent the next years trying to recover.
I eventually got back to building again, but I dove into the cars that I built, avoiding my planes- I kind of felt that I'd been jinxed or something. Rick spent years trying to get me to pick them up again. You guys know the story on that, with that build- "something Rick wanted me to do", in the "IN HONOR OF RICK" section.
As I recovered, and built new models, I spent years avoiding looking at this, bad memories. I finally decided to do something about this- preserving what I had done in the past, but getting it finished and "on the shelf" so to speak.
I had to literally wash the dust off of it. I decided not to repaint it, but to preserve the manner in which I started. I hope to think my skills have gotten better over the years since then, I like to keep my old builds and see my progress rather than rebuild something. I did some touching up; went to decal the plane- it had been planned to be of the IV Gruppe JG 132; the decals were by now old and crapped out on me, and I decided not to buy some more to continue that. I had a lot of great after market decals in my stash, so I just went with those. Installed the landing gear, and done. I don't put any wires on any builds- out here in the desert, they're just magic dust collectors.
The build quality is not perfect; but for me, it's a sort of "save" for me, and taking a poke at a jinx.
