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Hi, Dewoitne 338 was a luxury long range French passenger airplane from late thirties. 31 of them were build. You can read more on this type here: https://www.passionair1940.fr/Armee de l'Air/Appareils/Transport/Dewoitine-D338/EN-Dewoitine-D338.htm and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewoitine_D.338. Few of them were captured by Britts in summer 1941 in Syria & Lebanon campaign and them they were transferred to Free French forces. Together with other civil airplanes they went into LAM (Lignes AĆ©riennes Militaires ) - the FFAF transport service which was flying between Bayreuth and Brazzaville in Congo with base in Bangui (today Central African Republic). Each machine posses individual name. Mine has name "Belfort" (FL-AQB) and was renamed from "Ville de Beyrouth" (F-AQBD). The kit is by Broplan, vacu with small parts done as injection. The building thread within Mediterranean Theater of Operation GB is here: Here she is: (on above photos the khaki hue is reproduced closest to what I see by bare eye, below it goes too much to fresh green for some reasons...) The left engine just started! : An some shots in African sun: So it is already fourth militarized civil French type in my collection, other are Potez 29, Potez 651 and Bloch MB 220: Dewoitine is the largest of them ! This is mine No 19th in this year comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek
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Hi, Yesterday evening I finished her. This is Potez 29 - small airliner, transport, ambulane and liason development of Potez XXV. In real thing it has common with XXV whole lower wings and upper ones except the center part, which was incorpoated with fuselage and wider, as fuselage also was. I di it similar - I used wings of Broplan Potez XXV (vacu) and buid our of scratch everything else includeing central part of top wing. The build was reported in thread The painting scheme was on side profile - but since the wings has no dihedral on side profiles you cannot see any detail. So it my reconstruction how it might be based on some photos. I explained my decisissions and motivations in WIP threat . Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek
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