[TopHat]

Originally Posted by aeroeng

I buy at Mark Twain Hobby Center in St.Charles. They have a good sale every now and then during the summer. They're usually pretty competitive with the popular web sites prices during the sales. On some items they can't meet the internet prices, so I still order every once in a while off the internet. I like buying at their shop because they let me take the model out of the box and inspect it before I buy it.

I'll have to check out Mark Twain.

DIM usually has a good selection and will order anything you want if he doesn't have it, but he goes with MSRP, so usually no deals to be had. However, there will be a decent sale every now and then.

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by STARMAN 352ND

TopHat....I have seen the FM one and it's really nice "New Tooling" 1:48 scale wingspan is 17" and length is 13.5".
But if you like the 1:48 scale that FM one is nice and heavy plus that's a rare bird to get one with German markings like that.
The one Mark just posted is causing me to want that one even more and all i have is 1:72nd bombers so far.
Well i do have a B-26 Flak Bait that would look good next too it.

JP

Starman:

So, I take it that the hash-marks on the wings are correct? Are those the equivalent of the allied invasion stripes?

[Ara1]

My take on the hash marks: close your eyes and think of the Queen.

The hash marks were used in the BoB for a very short period in the fall of 1940. The system was complex and is largely undocumented by surviving Luftwaffe accounts. Photo evidence indicates the marks were used for formation marshalling. The colors appear to include white and pink, and even others (surviving English recovery team accounts support this). The bars often appeared on the right wing (if viewing the Heinkel from behind) and fin. However I have seen the marks on both wings as per the very nice Franklin Mint model. The hash marks were sometimes crudely applied via spray stencils, thus in some pictures, a large amount of overspray is evident on the wings.

There are great articles written on this subject, but I am about three years removed from reading them and am rusty.

Hence, I'll stick with my Queen statement ^^^^^

[BigMo]

Question? I received mine today and noticed the swastika on the tail was a box and an X or cross do these come this way?

[Elmer]

Originally Posted by BigMo

Question? I received mine today and noticed the swastika on the tail was a box and an X or cross do these come this way?

Would you elaborate? I don't quite understand what you mean.

[BigMo]

I copied this from ebay to show what I meant about a box and cross on the tail.

[bsmith13]

Originally Posted by BigMo

I copied this from ebay to show what I meant about a box and cross on the tail.

Now that just pisses me off. I'd rather have no marking or an "x" rather than that nonsense.

[Elmer]

Originally Posted by BigMo

I copied this from ebay to show what I meant about a box and cross on the tail.

Your B11E198 He-111 came with that nonsense on the tail? Really? That's not what we see in Mark's great pictures and at some other on-line vendors that have pictures of the real thing posted...

[CLLCTR5]

Originally Posted by Elmer

Your B11E198 He-111 came with that nonsense on the tail? Really? That's not what we see in Mark's great pictures and at some other on-line vendors that have pictures of the real thing posted...

The E198 that I have here has the swastika.

[BigMo]

Yep, I'll see if I pull her out tomorrow and take a few pic's to show. Its Sunday, 4mins past midnight here.