What kind of Heinkel 111 was Werkenr 3178?

[Anders Nicolaysen]

Thanks David.

Unnfortunately, the plackard you are mentioning is unavailable to me for several reasons:
Firstly, the remains of this machine is now probably covered by some 6 feet of snow.
Secondly, the distance between my humble residence in Oslo and the Heinkel remains is some 360 kilometres.
Thirdly, when I last visited the site, in the summer of 2005, there were very few pieces left, since the wreck has been constantly plundered by souvernir hunters for decades. (One of the engines is still there, though, residing in a small pond and in a very poor state. Probably too heavy for even the strongest souvernir hunters!) So I might perhaps have been exaggerating when I wrote that the codes still can be read on the remains.
However, I´m quite certain about the unit codes. I know that there are 1940-vintage photos of the wrecked machine in existence that show them clearly, and I´m now searching for these photos through Norwegian contacts. I also remember the codes from the first time I saw the remains of the machine, some 40 years ago. By then, in the mid-sixties, there were still rather large pieces of fuselage and wing skinning lying around, and this avid model-building teenager made a note of it.
Anyway, I trust that this was a H-3 model from the information that has surfaced here. But: I don´t have any good references regarding the He.111 subtypes - can anybody tell me if there were any significant external differences between the H-3 and the H-6, which is readily available in kit form?

Cheers,

Anders