I am reluctant to post pics of this beast as compared to most planes posted here it’s amateurish at best. However I wanted to share some of my experiences in it’s construction. First off is the wings. I have done a great deal of internet search on the construction of this plane and most talk about the wings. The top wing is in two sections one of which is part of the fuselage. The lower wing is in one piece. On this one I’m glad I didn’f follow directions. I says your supposed to glue the lower wing on first then place the top. I test fitted it like that and had about a 1/4" gap on the upper wings. I what I’ve read, people have had great trouble closing this gap. It’s too wide for just putty as it collapses in, so these poor souls had to try and place multiple internal spars to reinforce the wing. Also this apparently leads to problems fitting the engines. As for me I glued the top wing sections together and has no problem with the fit. Another tip would be to leave the wheel struts on the sprue when you cement the fender and support on. The struts are very fragile and bend easily which makes getting the fender into position hard. After I mucked up the first one. I left the second one on the sprue and it worked much better. Last tip. I’m usually a paint the canopies off the plane kinda guy (I always fear I’m gonna get primer in the inside of the canopy and have no way to fix it. Even with extensive prefitting I had trouble getting the canopies to fit on this one after they were painted. I’m very thankful that I bought the masks for this one.
Thanks guys for your kind words, but after following this forum and seeing what truely can be done. I still have a lot to learn and a long way to go. Oh I forgot, unless you plan on modifying the engines I wouldn’t spend a lot of time painted them. They are covered by the cooling fans. I would have liked to do a nice wash on the panel lines but I always have trouble with the wash sticking everywhere. I use model master acrylics and I have tried oil washes on top of just the acrylic paint as well as over testors dullcoat. It seems to stick everywhere and I can’t remove it so I have ended up repainting these areas. Any ideas? Thank you
Dullcote will have a slightly rough texture to it, and the washes will bite and be impossible to remove from where you don’t want them. Try your washes and weathering over glosscote when you do the decaling, then when happy, use the dullcote as a final to seal everything.
Your Dornier isn’t amatuerish at all, a very nice clean build as a matter of fact. i can’t see any glue blobs or seam lines anywhere.
Yes as has been said, you have to apply a gloss coat, ( I use future or Testor’s Gloss laquer ) before you do a wash, then seal the wash with your dullcoat, it’s pretty easy to do and there’s lots of info on Youtube to guide you…Happy Modeling.
When you guys were talking about the splinter camo. It got me thinking of one i did last month. When all was said and done I used about a grapefruit size ball of tape on a 1:48 model. In the 52 planes I have built this holds the record for tape
I’ll chime in also. Very nice, clean build and thanks for the info on the assembly challenges, which it looks like you met and succeeded against. Didn’t see anything amateurish about the build at all. Great job on the splinter scheme. As a suggestion, you could try pre-shading the panel lines instead of using a wash. I’m in the midst of trying that on an A-36, but I’ve seen it turn out really nice doing it that way. The trick would seem to be a really light touch on the airbrush as you put on the final color so you don’t cover up the shaded lines. Good luck with your future projects, and I look forward to seeing more great builds like this one. Thanks again.
