1/72 Dorawings Percival Proctor III

[Richard Tucker]

My ww2 plane stash has 3 candidates for this GB. I'll start with the one I've had the longest.

 

This will be the first Dorawings kit I've built so I'm interested to see how it goes.

 

Here is the obligatory sprues and box shots.

 

 

 

 

 

The detail on the plastic looks pretty good.

 

 

The kit comes with a small PE set.

 

 

The decals are nicely printed but I think there is a mistake on the Z7237 set as they have post war roundels but the instructions suggest 1942.

 

The photo here suggests 1950 which would seem correct to me.

 

 

That rules it out for me as I only build 1939-1949 schemes

 

From what I can tell, the most likely wartime scheme is the one offered by the museum aircraft LZ766 which is BS Dark Earth, BS Dark Green and Yellow undersides,  The decals are provided for this aircraft which currently resides at Duxford. I can't find any wartime pictures of this aircraft so can't confirm the colour scheme today is accurate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DaveyGair]

Hi Richard, I built their Vega Gull in this scale over on the ANZAC GB which you may want to look at.  Fairly stress free, just the usual test fit and test fit again mentality is needed!  The only niggle is the five part canopy assembly which needed a lot of test fitting and filing to get right. I dispensed with 99% of the PE!

I have a Proctor which came in the same box to do at some stage but I need a rest from 'wrestling' with Kits for the time being!

Enjoy!

 

Davey.

[Brad]

Welcome along, that's a nice choice of kit.

[Richard Tucker]

I've made a start on the internals. The fit isn't great. Many of the parts have lugs that are supposed to fit into holes but the lugs are bigger than the holes so I've gone for the easy option and trimmed the lugs off and fitted it that way.

 

 

 

The instrument panel has gone together well and I've managed to stick on the PE levers without my eyes exploding. 

 

The internal parts are glued to the underside of the aircraft. This is unusual as it goes the length of the plane rather than on the wings. Hopefully the joins will be flush between it and the fuselage sides. So far so good. Once I clear the decks of the 2 FW190's I'm building I'll have more time to concentrate on this one.

 

 

[CliffB]

A nice choice Richard.  It's interesting to see how many new kits of non-mainstream British aircraft have appeared in recent years 

[Richard Tucker]

The downside to the Dorawings instructions appears to be the lack of colour information. They tell you how to paint the outside but nothing more 😕

[Richard Tucker]

Despite my reservations, the base of the fuselage fitted nicely into the sides.

 

 

I need to do some filling and sanding around the joins but it went together ok.

 

 

Wings on and some filling and sanding done. The wings are really long for the fuselage length. I've glued the rudder on at at angle to give it some "life" or character or something  

[Richard Tucker]

Lots of progress over the weekend, especially yesterday with the terrible weather. The whole thing got a coat of Vallejo grey primer and then I added the glazing.

 

 

The glazing went on pretty easily and only needed a little filling.

 

 

I sprayed the bottom with some Medium Yellow Vallejo Model Air. For once, the yellow went on well and looks a decent colour. Sometimes it is watery.

 

This was masked and then I sprayed the Dark Earth and Green on the top surfaces.

 

 

One of the landing lights is cut out, the other needed to be cut out. I hadn't spotted this and ended up doing it once everything was painted.

 

 

 

 

[Richard Tucker]

This one has been nearly finished for a little while but I've finally finished it off with the decals and missing small components.

 

 

 

 

 

[TonyOD]

That's a lovely job. I like those cheerful yellow bellies!

[DaveyGair]

It looks kind of odd with that wide wingspan doesn't it? 

Nice job.

 

Davey.

[Brad]

Great build mate, well done.