Italeri Dornier Do 217 M-1

[Martay]

HI all, here is the build thread of one of my recent projects, its one of Italeri's historic upgrade kits, it contained a very nicely detailed cockpit and undercarrige, downside was the raised panel lines but i chose to work round it as i didnt want the hassle of the rescribe, i had scribing :

hope you enjoy



i added some etch belts


also did some extra wiring










fiddly bit






the seams were not that bad, i had a few to fill and sand






i picked this colour scheme as it looked very interesting


so now to paint


i used humbrol maskol to mask off the bits that the tape was not going to be easy to get with, like the top of the upper turret












maskol again to fill in the awkward gaps








and now the real tricky bit, i cut very thin strips of tape, bout a mill or so thick and used them to mark out the camo pattern, this took a while










then the handy maskol to blank out the bits not to be painted




then the first colour goes on


then the splinter camo is masked over that and the second colour is put on








and here it is undressed






gloss and decals are going on






toned down with some matt coat and the masking removed






looking at some ref pics i decided that the underside needed a bit of something, reality was the main thing so i decided to dirty it up just a little bit


i got a fwe diff shade of grey paint on a old brush and blew it on with the airbrush at high press














Kinda hard to know exactly when to stop the mud but i think it came out well, spech as id not tried this before, even on a practice kit, the mood just took me and i hit it relying on fate to step in a bit, i did and im quite pleased with the outcome.
Thanks for looking guys
M

 

[Elm City Hobbies]

Crazy good work and an exercise in patients with the camo outlined in masking tape!

 

[Martay]

Thanks very much Elm City, ya i nearly ended up being a patient!! but to be fair not that hard just tedious but very rewarding in the end, thanks for the kind review.
M

 

[zappa]

Very impressive man!!!

Zappa

 

[Martay]

thanks very much Zappa