Post by El Caracho on Feb 18, 2018 19:38:27 GMT
Well ... I skipped the 4-engine bomber MOCs completely and went right for the 5-engine ones 
Here's my rendition of the Heinkel He-111 Z-1 Zwilling
incalcatore already suggested doing this "easy" MOC over at the old Bloks Forum way back on 03.30.2017 at 05:13:35,
so thanks to him for inspiring me to do this
This MOC solely consists of parts from 3 "5534" sets (Except for the "TH ZI" and yellow stripe custom stickers).
At first I thought: "Why should I buy a full 3rd set if I only need an additional engine",
so I checked which issue(s) of the Heinkel He 111 from the "Samoloty WWII kolekcja" magazines would contain the necessary parts.
Well, the complete "Heinkel He 111" covers 7 issues (No. 32 to 38), and unfortunately the needed engine parts are spread across 5 of the 7 issues (32, 33, 34, 35 & 38), so I figured I might as well buy a complete 3rd set ...
And boy was this the right decision, because I totally underestimated the amount of parts needed for the construction of the connecting mid-section!
After assembling two planes and scrapping one left and one right wing, I still needed practically ALL (green and dark green) tiles and ALL bigger plates (4x8, 4x6, 2x10, ...) from the 3rd set to connect the 2 planes in the middle!
The overall wing shape of the official Cobi set 5534 does not exactly match the wing shape of a real Heinkel He-111 in the first place,
and this deviation can also be found on my Zwilling MOC, otherwise I would have had to completely rework the whole plane, but I just wanted a "quick and easy" MOC
The space between the 4-wide engines is 8 studs, which was the minimum distance to prevent the propellor blades of two adjacent engines from hitting each other.
The whole construction of the mid-section became more rigid than I expected (4 layes of plates and 1 layer of tiles), so you can carry the entire plane around with one hand without a problem, if you grab the model at the correct spot in the middle:
And here's a size comparison with another large flying object from a galaxy far, far away ...
Definitely the largest Cobi model in my collection now ... only problem is that it's doesn't fit on any of my shelves
And on a sidenote:
Although it would be historically correct, I didn't put on any custom swastica stickers, as in Germany I would go to jail for up to 3 years, if somebody would see me in public taking pictures of my scale model with these anti-constitutional symbols on it.
Well ... the law is the law, and apparently Germany's point of view of how to handle this (part of history) is quite different than in the rest of the world.
Here's my rendition of the Heinkel He-111 Z-1 Zwilling
incalcatore already suggested doing this "easy" MOC over at the old Bloks Forum way back on 03.30.2017 at 05:13:35,
so thanks to him for inspiring me to do this
This MOC solely consists of parts from 3 "5534" sets (Except for the "TH ZI" and yellow stripe custom stickers).
At first I thought: "Why should I buy a full 3rd set if I only need an additional engine",
so I checked which issue(s) of the Heinkel He 111 from the "Samoloty WWII kolekcja" magazines would contain the necessary parts.
Well, the complete "Heinkel He 111" covers 7 issues (No. 32 to 38), and unfortunately the needed engine parts are spread across 5 of the 7 issues (32, 33, 34, 35 & 38), so I figured I might as well buy a complete 3rd set ...
And boy was this the right decision, because I totally underestimated the amount of parts needed for the construction of the connecting mid-section!
After assembling two planes and scrapping one left and one right wing, I still needed practically ALL (green and dark green) tiles and ALL bigger plates (4x8, 4x6, 2x10, ...) from the 3rd set to connect the 2 planes in the middle!
The overall wing shape of the official Cobi set 5534 does not exactly match the wing shape of a real Heinkel He-111 in the first place,
and this deviation can also be found on my Zwilling MOC, otherwise I would have had to completely rework the whole plane, but I just wanted a "quick and easy" MOC
The space between the 4-wide engines is 8 studs, which was the minimum distance to prevent the propellor blades of two adjacent engines from hitting each other.
The whole construction of the mid-section became more rigid than I expected (4 layes of plates and 1 layer of tiles), so you can carry the entire plane around with one hand without a problem, if you grab the model at the correct spot in the middle:
And here's a size comparison with another large flying object from a galaxy far, far away ...
Definitely the largest Cobi model in my collection now ... only problem is that it's doesn't fit on any of my shelves
And on a sidenote:
Although it would be historically correct, I didn't put on any custom swastica stickers, as in Germany I would go to jail for up to 3 years, if somebody would see me in public taking pictures of my scale model with these anti-constitutional symbols on it.
Well ... the law is the law, and apparently Germany's point of view of how to handle this (part of history) is quite different than in the rest of the world.
