Heinkel HE219 UHU WWII Fighter Aircraft
Tamiya Heinkel HE219 UHU WWII Fighter Aircraft
$46.40
Heinkel HE219 Uhu 1/48 Scale Kit Review

This 1/48 scale kit comes from the famous Japanese modeling company, Tamiya. The pros for this kit are as follows: You have three paint schemes to choose from and the one I did is on the cover of the box called 1./NJG1, May 1945, Germany. The other two paint schemes are 1.NJG1 and 3./NJG3, May 1945, Denmark. It comes with die-cast cockpit floor piece to prevent the aircraft from being tail heavy since it has tricycle landing gear. The decals were easy to slide off the paper and applied to the aircraft. It has nice fittings all around with minimal sanding.

The cons for this kit are as follows: On the underside of the right wing, they should’ve said in the instructions place decal 6(one of the white German crosses) before adding one of the B11 components on. But they didn’t so I had to cut said decal to make it work. Trying to paint clear piece E1 with Tamiya paint X-11 Chrome Silver perfectly is impossible. They should’ve had a photo-etched piece there or something like that.

In conclusion, I give this kit a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5. Tamiya if you’re reading this it just happens to be one of the best kits I’ve worked on with you. There’s just some very small glitches that prevented me from giving it a perfect score. All and all, I had a good time working on this kit and so should anyone else who wants to give it a try!