Finished at last!

[matrixone]

Today I finished my Monogram Do 335, this is a kit that has been in my kit stash since the late 1970s and am glad I waited to build this kit, if I built this when I was a kid it would not have turned out this good.
My next Do 335 will be built from the Tamiya kit and this time I won't wait so long to build it!




Matrixone  

[Aircav]

Turns green and heads for a corner...............................  
That looks Fantastic                
So when are you going to teach us all how to model to that stantard ? :dum:  :dum:  

[F-32]

Beautiful  

[NARSES2]

Whoaaaa - the b&w photo is incredible    

[lancer]

Ok, I know I've said this before, but that is truely magnificent!!!! Looking at that and my pathetic efforts, I sometimes wonder why I bother....

[matrixone]

Thanks aircavpinkteam, F-32, NARSES2, and lancer!

I wanted a very different looking Do 335 and the camouflage I chose for this model is unlike other models of the Arrow I have seen.

Here is another pic from Sundays photo shoot...

Check out the landing light, the pilot forgot to turn it off after his last mission. Must have been very sleepy!

Matrixone  

[Allan]

Hi Matrix,

It REALLY brings home to me how puny my modelling efforts are when I see a real tour de force like your Dornier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feel like sssssssssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg!

Wonderful work!

Allan in Canberra

[nev]

Amazing work, as ever.  A pleasure to view    

[Scooterman]

Damn!  

There are just not enough adjectives (or expletives!!) to describe your work Matrixone.

I shall now bow down in front of the Master

Keep it up!

[matrixone]

Thank you Allen, nev, and scooterman for the kind words!

On my work bench now are a couple Ta 183s, an Amtech 1/48 scale kit and the PM 1/72 scale. If these turn out good I will post some pics in a few weeks.

Another Do 335 pic...


Matrixone  

[Allan]

Hi Matrix,

Your praise is well-deserved. Is that a painted-on spiral?

TA 183?

That's the Huckbein, isn't it?

How are you going to make that one?  German or some other country's colors?

I was just thinking about the crappy old Revell UHU the other day. If I found two

copies of that one I could lengthen the wings and make one of them a four engine


job and maybe the other one a twin jet engine plane, if I found two jet engines

lying around.

Allan in Canberra.

[matrixone]

Allen,

Again, thank you.
The Ta 183 is a single engined jet fighter designed by the Focke-Wulf company near the end of WWII.

It will be a challenge to paint and choose the markings to make the Ta 183 models look like a ''real'' aircraft, I have seen some models of the Ta 183 that were not painted in a very realistic paint scheme and I don't want mine to look cartoon like.

A four engined UHU sounds very cool! I wish you luck with that project if you decide to build it!
Please post some pics of that model when its done.
I also have one of those UHU kits and I will most likely finish it just like my Do 335 model.

Matrixone

BTW, the spinner spiral was hand painted, I don't like those spiral decals.  

[elmayerle]

Hi Matrix,

Your praise is well-deserved. Is that a painted-on spiral?

TA 183?

That's the Huckbein, isn't it?

How are you going to make that one?  German or some other country's colors?

I was just thinking about the crappy old Revell UHU the other day. If I found two

copies of that one I could lengthen the wings and make one of them a four engine


job and maybe the other one a twin jet engine plane, if I found two jet engines

lying around.

Allan in Canberra.

I suspect you'd have to lengthen the fuselage a touch aft of the wing for a four-engined one, just to maintain weight and balance requirements.  Beyound that, consider some of the other possible derivatives that Heinkel and others were looking at.  Just a thought, if you've got a pair of radial engines, two of those with turbocharging might go good on the other airframe.

[Allan]

Fully concur re lengthening the fuselage
in haste
Allan