81-er Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Nice progress JW James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 This weekend I did work on undercarriage on all three. It is not finished yet. The Airfix wheels are bigger that RS. I think it is not a flaw, the real Do 17Z could have bigger wheels. But I have nit found it (did not confirmed so far). Interesting that some reinforcing bars goes the same on left and right sides - I made initially mistake assuming that they are mirror like... Then I have to cut and do replacements... Instead of PE elements provided by RS I used sctrach work from stretched sprues. Here they are: and the family. On a lower shelf there is Do 17E by Airfix, done some 45 years ago and few years ago a bit refreshed. To be continued Regards J-W 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81-er Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Nice work JW, and a nice collection on display James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 You really are doing a very good job on all three of your builds, they look very nice indeed. And your collection looks great, some very nice Spanish Civil War machines there. 🇺🇦 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 3 hours ago, modelling minion said: You really are doing a very good job on all three of your builds, they look very nice indeed. And your collection looks great, some very nice Spanish Civil War machines there. 6 hours ago, 81-er said: Nice work JW, and a nice collection on display Many thanks! BTW - The set of SCW is 42 now... What is seen here is a small part I will photo more. Regards J-W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Very nice looking all the way around. AS others have said, impressive SCW shelf... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 (edited) On 6/12/2022 at 10:32 PM, JWM said: This weekend I did work on undercarriage on all three. It is not finished yet. The Airfix wheels are bigger that RS. I think it is not a flaw, the real Do 17Z could have bigger wheels. But I have nit found it (did not confirmed so far). Hi J-W, Yes, I reached the same conclusion with the AM 17Z wheels I used on my Airfix E - they do seem to be bigger than the ones in the rather small plan I used when scratching the undercarriage, making the plane sit a bit higher than expected. As the weight increased quite a bit - E 9920lb empty, 15520lb loaded against Z empty 11484lb, loaded 18931lb according to Green - then maybe the Z did have bigger wheels. Incidentally, the 215 with the inline engines was actually even heavier than the Z. Pete Edited July 14, 2022 by PeterB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 A month lasting break happened, I am sorry to say. I had some more intense period in my regular job, so the hobby had to step back for a while... I am about to return Some progress with painting can be observed: On 6/13/2022 at 12:50 PM, modelling minion said: And your collection looks great, some very nice Spanish Civil War machines there. thank you - here a whole set of SCW, as for today (please exclude the top shelf) On above photo you may notice the bottom sided of Dorniers painted light blue... Regards J-W 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 J-W, I'm so happy to tell you that we've been granted a two week extension . I hope this helps you (and me!) to finish our builds and get them in the gallery. V-P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 6, 2022 Author Share Posted August 6, 2022 On 7/22/2022 at 7:07 PM, vppelt68 said: J-W, I'm so happy to tell you that we've been granted a two week extension . I hope this helps you (and me!) to finish our builds and get them in the gallery. V-P Thank you. I was to busy with different things that I was not doing any modelling for eight weeks! This is very unusual, but today I dis some progress od my dorniers. During this long weeks I painted Do 17 K but not posted photos. So today at morning the Do 17 K (Croatian) was the most advanced one of three. On morning I started with painting frams on canopy: Then I painted overall gloss varnish And applied decals few minutes ago: During day I worked also on Z and P. First I did masking of the camo on Do 17 P and Do 17Z Here is view after applying Humbrol 91 as Schwartzgrun: Both RLM 70 and 71 applied on both Dorniers I have bought mask for canopy of Do 17, so I will use it Regards J-W 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 7, 2022 Author Share Posted August 7, 2022 Hi I have just finished two - the K and Z, the P has to be done yet... I managed it! It was a long and intense weekend with modelling, the weather in Krakow was right for it.... The K was almost finished yesterday. But the Z was not very advanced in morning. I started with masking canopy (vinyl masks by Pmask). I found them very good, Then I painted all around with gloss varnish and started applying decals. I used the squadron emblem from Revell kit (from drawer) and all other decals are by Techmod from their improved set. This scheme is not there, but there are characters H black and white as well as F1 codes. I used only stenils from Techmod set, the Airfix has more of them. I general I think that human life (especially mine) is not that long to apply all possible stencils on model .... Then I sealed decals with next coat of gloss varnish (Tamiya acryl) and applied matt varnish (Vallejo) and made some weathering. I put the photos of K and Z into Gallery, here just one for each: Some progress could be noticed also for P, but I did not finished her in time... Better quality y day light photos I will give on RFI soon. Regards J-W 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81-er Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Excellent work, JW James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 On 8/8/2022 at 11:10 AM, 81-er said: Excellent work, JW James James, many thanks! The RFI therad form mine Croation Ka3 is here: and that for Do 17 Z is here: Let me continue posting progress report on build of Do 17 P here.... Regards J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 Details of the scheme of Do 17P 6M+GK, which I want to model, were discussed here: I would like to express my deep gratitude to all who share with me with their knowledge on this machine, first of all to @G.R.Morrison for his input. I am applying declas I have found in me resources red "G" with white outline no the plain one, so I will have to remove some way this outline... I will continue Regards J-W 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 I have over painted with red the white outline of "G". Added some decals including serial "153" on nose (accordingly to photos on both sides) and made brush painting (on decal) of geschwader emblem (only on one side - also accordingly to photos). Looking more carefully on photos of 6M+GK I noticed, that the yellow on cowlings do not include to gills - they are in camo colors, so I introduced this to model I secured the decals with glossy varnish and finally coated with mat varnish: I have to add DF-loop on top and aerial on a bottom sides, some weathering and it will be the end... Regards J-W 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 A cool combination of the Marita scheme in an early Do 17 variant! I like it very much! V-P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRK4m Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 It is a pity that you did not make it within the STGB deadline. It came out better than his -17K RS stablemate and is certainly more interesting (i.e. less common) than the Airfix -17Z. One of the best 1:72 Do-17s I have ever seen. Cheers Michael 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 The last one, "P", is finally done! more photos are in "Late Finishers Gallery" of current STGB and in RFI. Many thanks all for watching and comments! Regards J-W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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