Thanks Bish and AdeB ! I did some more work on it this evening. Added the stabilizers, and began filling those terrible gaps in the wing roots. It’s coming along nicely now! The pre-cut masks for the kit should be coming in the mail any day now as well.
You’re doing a smashing job on this interesting but less than perfect kit. i admire your “sticktoitism”
Coming along nice…Love Iron Maiden too… Saw 'em in '88…
I’ve been making darn good strides with this kit, in spite of all it’s shortcomings! Playing some albums in the background helps, too! I’ve glued the engines onto the wings, and there were gaps a-plenty. Luckily I’ve filled them with putty, and they’re good to go! I’ve been toying with the idea of adding a bit of battle damage to one of the engines as well. I’ve placed the DF loop and the dipole antennas on the plane as well. All of these were PE, and I gotta tell you folks…I’m really getting used to working with PE. I don’t know why I was scared to work with it in the first place!
I’m gonna keep going with this kit. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel…and at the end of that tunnel is a Wellington in my kit stash that’s calling my name.
I’m enjoying following your build. Sorry to see so much putty. I love the way the wing and fuselage join on the Dornier.
keep up the good work,
Gary
Thanks GazzaS! This build has definitely been a tough one. I busted off one of the PE gunsights last week and it is gone forever…eaten by the basement floor. So I ordered a new fret of various gunsights and found a replacement for the one I lost. I also bought a pre-cut masking kit for the plane, and within a few hours I had every window masked off.
I’ve decided to build a diorama for this plane, and I’ve decided to take a bit of artistic license with it as well. I got a bit dremel-happy and decided to add a bit of battle damage to my Dornier. Tonight I sprayed a coat of primer on it, and hopefully tomorrow night I will start painting! You’ll notice that I’ve left the landing gear and gear doors off for now- that’s because the gear struts are very fragile and I didn’t want to snap them off by accident.
I’ve done a bit more work these past few weeks. I have primed, painted, and decaled my Dornier! A word of caution to any of you folks looking to build this kit…the decals? Are junk. The St. Andrews crosses for the tail fins broke apart as soon as I took them off of the deal sheet. I’ve included a photo of one to show you all. As you can imagine, I used words that were a lot stronger than “junk” when this happened, so I decided to paint the crosses on instead. The numbers and the Nationalist markings on the side of the plane also split apart, but only in a few spots and were much easier to re-align and laid down well with some testor’s decal set. The wing roundels, nickname, and the devil’s head insignias went on with no problem. I’ve also painted and glued the props on to the plane, and have added some battle damage to the right prop as well. It’s been a long and rocky road with this plane, but I’m not going to let it get the best of me!
That’s a pretty wild camo scheme. Cool. Thanks for sharing.
BK
Love that scheme, but that’s not good news on those decals. Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for the kudos on the paint job! The decals were definitely not fun to work with, but I kept on going. I actually finished the kit last week and I’ve been working on a diorama for it…with real dirt from Spain! I’m waiting for a few more parts and then it too will be complete. Here are some shots:
Nice work. The fence is a nice touch. Very cool.
BK
Thanks Brandon! The last few pieces I needed to complete the diorama arrived a few days ago: a pack of Pegasus farm animals. I decided to add some sheep to the vacant field that my Dornier ended up in. As well as livestock, the Pegasus set comes with a few dogs. One looked like a German Shepherd, and I decided to paint one up as such. I didn’t have to go far for a reference, either. My dog Gunter is a German Shepherd, and he was more than happy to pose for me while I painted the micro version of his likeness…for five minutes. We had played an awesome game of fetch earlier in the day, and before I knew it my “reference” laid down on the couch next to me and was in dreamland. Oh well. Here are some photos!
I’m very happy with the way the kit and the diorama turned out - despite all of the issues I had with it along the way! Thanks to everyone who offered me words of encouragement during the building process. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve gotta go feed this guy in the picture above!