Dornier Do 17 family Gallery

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Post your completed builds here. No more than five photos per entry.

Please do not post comments in this thread. All comments should go in the subject's build thread.

[vppelt68]

Dornier Do 17 Z-2 U5+BH (buildthread)

1./KG 2 "Holzhammer", Greece 5/1941

ICM 🇺🇦 1:72 scale kit #72304 - nothing but pure joy to build!

Out-of-the-box build using Peewit canopy mask set

Brush painted testing Revell supermarket enamels, they were 👍

ICM kit supplied decals + spares box tail insignias

Glory to the manufacturing nation of this kit! There's a small wrinkle in the Staffelstreife below the canopy, but I'll live with it. I hate dealing with anything painted white!

Compare the colours in this pic with the last one in the build thread... funny how different they look now, outside in direct sunlight.

That's all Revell matt enamel but quickly polished with an old toothbrush. It breaks up the contrast in the splinter scheme and helps avoid silvering of the decals too.

Down below everything looks too clean, I didn't want to add any weathering. The map is from a Reader's Digest Atlas and probably 50 years old - and with 🇫🇮 names.

One last pic. She's already tucked away in my model cabinet, and shall remain there to be forgotten amongst her kin. Thank you Enzo for setting this up for us! V-P

 

[modelling minion]

Eduard/ICM 1/48 Dornier Do 17Z-2

3./KG 2 , Athens Tatoi, Greece, May 1941.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paints; Gunze , Decals; kit

 

A thoroughly enjoyable build with good details OOTB that I can heartily recommend.

Thanks for looking.

 

Craig.

 

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[Walter]

Dornier Do17 Z10 Nachtjager 

 

Always an enjoyable build with ICM. I've presented this aircraft as one that stayed in service far beyond its use by date thus giving me an opportunity to develop my weathering techniques. I hope I've portrayed that in scale. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 2, 2022 by Walter

[PeterB]

Sometime in the late 1990's I bought a batch of 3 Italeri kits of Luftwaffe bombers - Ju 188, He 111 and Do 217K-1, and this GB finally gave me the incentive to make a start on the latter. Demand for the BMW radial engines for Fw 190 production meant that there was only a relatively short production run of K series bombers, before it switched to the DB603 inline powered M model which shared the same fuselage etc complete with the modified "glasshouse" nose. Finding info on the K was not as easy as it might have been as the Do 217 seems to be something of a "forgotten" plane, even though it was a sound enough design with reasonable performance, but by the time it entered service the Battle of Britain was over, and the need for bombers was somewhat reduced. The kit is not bad - a bit basic by modern standards but I had few problems with it. I have ended up painting it in the markings of KG.66 which used it for about a year in limited numbers for night raids on the UK and probably against shipping.

 

Here is a link to the build thread.

And here is my model.

 In his book on captured Luftwaffe planes, the late Eric Brown described it as, by comparison with the slim Do 17 from which it was derived, looking rather matronly, in fact several months pregnant, which I think is rather a good description.

 

 

Pete

Edited July 10, 2022 by PeterB

[PeterB]

In 1972 Airfix released their kit of the Do 17E/F and I built it shortly afterwards, but as I did not like the RLM 61/62/63/65 camo I did it in 70/71/65 with spurious markings. About 10 years ago I got the urge to do it properly so stripped off the paint, dismantled it and bought new paint from the White Ensign Colourcoats range. At one point I was thinking of cross-kitting it with my Frog Do 17Z to try and produce either a 17P or M radial engined version, but then things stalled as they do and it was left lying around gradually shedding bits until this GB came along. When I eventually dug out the remains it was missing quite a few parts – 2 seats, the guns, the instrument panel, an elevator actuating thingy and a propeller blade, and I had built it wheels up so it needed an undercarriage. With the help of my spares boxes and some after market wheels etc I have pretty much restored it to how it perhaps would have looked if I had done a better job on it first time round. I have based it on photos and other info of a very early Do 17E bomber flown by III/KG.255 "Alpen"  in 1937, with unfaded paint, no modified windscreen with an extra MG 15 fitted and the early style pitot head mounted on the canopy – later it was switched to the Port wing I believe. For its age the Airfix kit was actually pretty good but I added a bit more detail to the interior which was rather basic. It is now perhaps up to the standard of the much later RS kit, and probably rather easier to build from what other modellers in this STGB seem to have found.

 

Here is a link to the build thread.

 

 

Here is what I started with!

 

And here is how it looks now.

Better than I had hoped though not of course perfect.

 

Pete

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

Nice renovation Pete. That's the first time I've seen these particular paints used in a long time.

[Andwil]

ICM 1/72 Dornier Do-215B-5, Oberleutnant Helmut Lent, II NJG.2, Leeuwarden 1942.  Out of the box with a Yahu instrument panel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[Mottlemaster]

ICM Do 217 N-1b Converted to Do 217 N-2/R-22 useing the AIMS conversion

 

 

 

 

[Carts]

Had a few real life issues crop up,but managed to get this finished,Big thanks to the mods and group members👍

Revell 1/48th scale Do217 E-5

 

 

 

 

 

[John Masters]

It's taken me almost two months to get this finished...Maybe more.  Not sure.  My mojo has been affected by family health issues (since February) and the onslaught of summer tourism here which is absolutely ghastly.  Why people can't stay at home and enjoy themselves I'll never understand.  Anyway...the WiP is here...

 

No real issues once I switched kits.  All the paints are Vallejo Air and Vallejo Model...The build is OOB except for the decals.  Those are from the RSModel which was discarded.  

 

Thank to the Mods and all the who cheered for me on the sidelines.  My modelling mojo really has been tested these past months but I feel I'm getting it back a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Onwards!

---John

 

[psdavidson]

For your delectation, here's my take on the Revell Do 17 Z-2

First released in by Monogram in 1969, its a simple kit with few parts.

It goes together nicely, considering the age of the tooling and with a little care and attention could build up into a decent model.

I did neither and still got a relatively OK result

 

 

 

 

Not sure where the focus went on this one, the base of the stand maybe

 

and belly-up

 

Thanks to @vppelt68 for conscripting me and everyone else for following along

 

Build thread is here

 

/P

[Marklo]

Monogram Do17z remodelled as a -Ka ( with a brief foray into an F) in Yugoslavian markings.

 

 

 

 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Dornier Do 17Z-1

F1-ET, 9/KG 76

Cormeilles-en-Vexin, France

July 1940

 

Kit:  Airfix 1/72 AX05010A

Decals:  Xtradecals X72206

Build thread:  https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235110345-battle-of-britain-dornier-do-17z/

 

 

 

 

 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Dornier Do 17E

9K-LA, Stab/KG51 Edelweis

Landsbereg-Lech, Germany

May 1939

 

Kit:  RS Models 1/72 92235

Build thread:  https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235110474-pre-war-do-17e

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave_R]

Dornier Do 17Z

7/Kampfgeschwader 3, Saint-Trond, Limburg, Belgium, August 1940

Airfix 1/72nd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JWM]

Do 17 Ka3, 3 Zrakoplovno jato, Borongaj, Croatia 1943, RS kit 1/72 

 

Better day light photos will be on RFI... I have just finished her 

Regards

J-W

 

Edited August 7, 2022 by JWM

[JWM]

Do 17 Z-3, Summer 1940, Airfix kit 1/72, decals Techmod and Revell, mask bu Pmask

 

I managed to put here the second of my triple build! The thirs one later. Better photos with daylight on RFI...

Regards

J-W