He111F PF+UQ - Gen.Felfmarschal von Brauschitsch

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Graham...

Many thanks for your posting regarding this subject... coincidentally, I'm also half way through building a Roden 'E'... wonderful for encouraging a receding hairline... !

I made a go of building the above-mentioned PF+UQ a few years back, and still have it in my collection. I used the Roden 'C' fuselage with the full set of 'airliner' windows in the fuselage, mated to the Italeri 'H' wings. Given that I only had one rear view of that machine at the time, and taking it to be an 'F', I completed it with the Italeri engines and a glazed bomber-style nose from a Roden 'B' kit. This seems only to have been successful in providing the starboard fuselage door and a straight leading-edged wing.

However, being somewhat adept at reconfiguring some of my models from one version to another, and having now completed eleven cross-matches of the recent Hasegawa kit with the elderly Italeri offering - invloving retaining the Italeri fuselage and canopies, fin and rudder, excavating an opening on the underside of the fuselage for the bomb bay/racks insert, while retaining the Hasegawa cockpit interior, wings, engines, undercarriage and tailplane (on later attempts, also substituting the Hasegawa one-piece ventral gondola) - I am relatively confident a Roden/Hasegawa cross-match would be successful. The Roden fuselage accepts the Italeri wings quite well, albeit with some plastic card inserts, filler and considerable time sanding and blending the wing/fuselage joint, as do the Hasegawa wings to the Italeri fuselage, so I believe Hasegawa to Roden would work. If using a Hasegawa He111P kit, I could use the DB600 cowlings, as you suggested, and using a solid nose cap left over from the Roden 'C' - yes, still got that as well...! - it would look rather eye-catching when complete.

I would be very interested to see the pictures you mentioned of PF+UP, what we now believe to be an inline-engined 'G'. I will send you my e-mail in a private message and hopefully you would be willing to let me see these pictures... ?

Many thanks again for your reply. Hope to hear from you soon.

Regards...