Littlebro and I have embarked on missions to restore old models built in the days of 19 cent Testors paints, squeeze tubes of messy cement, little patience and undeveloped skills, not to mention little if any money. Now we grown up (boys) are revisiting these archives of plastic. A comment on Facebook by Raymond Carl, a volunteer restorer at a local museum, is that he feels sometimes restoration is more difficult that building a new kit! Personally I have done a couple of fairly straightforward updates of a Douglass Dauntless and a OS2U Kingfisher, both 1/72 scale as is the titled HE-219.
Cleaning, some disassembling, additions of missing pieces (from scratch), removal and replacement of old yellowed decals, when replacements can be obtained, and some challenging repainting, all go into the refurbishing. In the case of the He-219 an entirely new look resulted from online research. Additional detail and description of various processes can be found on the Wings of Glory Aerodrome website.
WAIT, WHAT! How did that get there? I believe Flash thought that there may be an impending attack!
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