CASA C 2.111 SAR - Viva Espana
1March 10, 2019The ICM fuselage is a "click-fit". So easy - so accurate!
2March 10, 2019The interior color (Vallejo RLM02) is too dark, but I hope in the end, we'll see not much of it 🙂
3March 10, 2019Fuselage halfes glued together. The kit is very good engineered!
4March 10, 2019First rough adjustment in the Cockpit. As I saw later on reference pictures, the inside color here was not RLM02 🙁
5March 10, 2019As CASA got the Merlins with the nacelles, the Belcher Bits engines are ok for me.
6March 10, 2019Dual controls
7March 10, 2019The Spaniards didn't had a use of the windows in the ventral position, so I closed them.
8March 10, 2019As the built goes on, I found more and more differencies between the German He 111 and the CASA C2111.
9April 21, 2019Added the small window in the front cowling.
10March 10, 2019The troubles started, when installing the wings. Lot of trimming and bending!! Not the same fit-quality as the fuselage 🙁
11April 21, 2019Merlins in place. After a long adjustment time, the position is ok for me.
12April 21, 2019After positioning, I'll start to install a proper fixture for the engines. Then a lot of sanding and filling.
13May 8, 2019So I got the ending of the engine to the gear well right. Grinding, sanding and filling of the engine connection can start now.
14April 21, 2019Added a small detail on the tail. Seems the "Pedro" was able to tow a glider (would be interesting which one? Any pictures known??).
15May 8, 2019I removed the profile of the tire by knife to got an used look. The Spaniards used tires of their own manufactures with a different profile but I was unable to find such a wheel in the aftermarket.
16May 8, 2019I changed the cockpit interior color to antrazite-grey, as a lot of pictures show the cockpit quite dark.
17May 13, 2019For the first time, I tried to work with small magnets to hold the propeller.
18May 13, 2019The result is funny! You can spin the propeller by blowing air to it, the propeller has no inbalance!
19May 13, 2019Happy with that! The blades still need to be adjusted. It also needs a bigger spinner.
20May 13, 2019Because I had too much time, I made a transport box for the CASA.
21May 23, 2019The prop-story ends here. Thanks to spare propellers from the Tamiya Mosquito kit and spinners from 109-kits, the propeller has its (near) final look.
22May 23, 2019The 109-spinners fit nice to the engine nacelles. So focus goes back to them.
23July 14, 2019Seats are done (RH kit part, LH scratch - 2x eduard seat belts), dual controls (scratch) installed.
24July 14, 2019Ventral clear parts in position
25July 14, 2019Side rudder try fit
26July 14, 2019Plotter-test for airbrush masks
27July 14, 2019Roundel-dummy in place. The wing tips will be yellow with a black stripe on the inner end
28July 28, 2019Landing gear modification. The C2.111 had no dust protectors for the damper pistons.
29August 22, 2019The instrument panel is self-made of cutted eduards photo etched colored parts.
30August 22, 2019Exhausts cutted and in place (I used Airacobra-Fishtail exhausts). I also added the screen in front of the air scoop
31August 22, 2019The silver coating is nearly done. All the clear front parts used my nerves very much but since i cutted away the bomb aimers floor, I had no fuselage parts to guide the clear parts.
32September 3, 2019Roundel masks for wings and fuselage
33September 3, 2019Painting process: Primed, yellow sprayed (5 layers), inner roundel mask placed, primed, red sprayed (4 layers), tape removed
34September 3, 2019A japanese one?
35September 3, 2019Happy with that 🙂
36September 3, 2019Some minor corrections will follow
37September 7, 2019The windows of the CASA were different to the He-111, but to change the panels to windows was too much for me so I left them in Heinkel-mode.
38September 7, 2019Selfmade masks for the fuselage applied
39September 7, 2019... and after airbrushing. However, it was then I saw that the roundel is placed too high on the fuselage side.
40September 17, 2019Meanwhile, bad news of the landing gear: The modified kit parts collapsed during a dry-fit on the CASA. So I got a SAC-Replacement set, which I also had to modify... (SAC delivered two LH landing gear sets, but this is just a detail now)
41October 1, 2019Found the limitations of my plotter (and myself) when applying the writing on the vertical stabilizer.
42October 20, 2019Don't know the reason for these tubes on the lower wing side, but as they are on all CASA-Pictures, I added some cutted syringe needles
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44October 25, 2019Hope this helps 🙂
45October 20, 2019And finished. Just a great reference book!
46October 20, 2019Some finish-pictures will follow...
47December 20, 2019... and now, the finish-pictures 🙂
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Stopped all other Projects for this one. Inspired by an IPMS idea. The spanish manufacturer CASA built this CASA C2111 as a T.8B Trainer with dual controls and all (?) specific bomber items removed. It was used for SAR in the sixties (with number 2540 painted), but only 2 Pictures of it are known. Let the fun begin!
