History
Essentially
an enlarged Do17, development of Do217 is a
direct result of a much succesful competitor: Ju88. Beaten with Junkers, Dornier chose to
develop the thrusted concept. Flown
as a prototype in August 1938, Designated Recconnaisance version Do 217A-0
entered service by 1940. Though primarly designed as
medium fast bomber, imposed necessities and fuselage structure
successfully resulted heavy
fighter, torpedo bomber, radar
operated night fighter and most
notably missile equipped anti shipping versions. This last two variants
continued to operate until the end of the war.
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Kit
Promodeler’s
huge cardboard box comes with 3 main sprues, a very good amount of external and
internal detail is evident. Almost
as an individual project, one sprue includes Hs 293 missile, with a very good
detail level. Construction is
pretty straightforward and
painless. Notably two part nacelle joint is to good to be true.
A slight filling and sanding needed on wing joint. Possibly from multi
part wing design, or simply due my
incompetence! I begin
with cockpit, spraying
pretty much routine RLM66. After
that, area received it’s
usual dosage of wash, dry brush and
Eduard’s P/E belts.
RLM65
Under surfaces painted with
Gunze Sangyo Acyrlics easily. However, Upper camouflage colours RLM 72/73 have
to be “re invented” by adding
gentle drops of Tamiya medium blue to Gunze Sangyo RLM70/71.
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By
using kit decals, I choose to depict a Do217E-5 with Henschel Hs
293 missile “white 52”. Machine’s
Unit, KG100 based at Biscay Bay against Allied shipping in summer 1943 .
Unfortunately, ageing decals were useless and
resulted an unexpected masking adventure. The underwing Balkan crosses
have to be airbrushed… Rest of
the decals went well.
As
an ever useful gadget, I used Eduard Canopy masks –No! not them, the new,
yellow ones- on this project and they worked
well too..
Finally,
a nice coat of Gunze matt
with slight weathering
prepared my Do217E-5 to it’s final flight
on display shelf.
Tolga
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