1/48 Tamiya Dornier Do-335A

by David M. Reinecke

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Having always liked the Do-335 "Pfiel," I began building Tamiya's version in mid-November of last year with hopes of having it complete in time for my IPMS chapter's in-club contest in January.

I finished it on April 29th.

Much of the delay was from my indecision on how and when to paint the canopy. I have not had much success lately with having paint stay on canopies. I decided to attach and mask the canopy prior to painting the entire plane. I had hoped that several layers of paint would hold better than one. Alas, I was wrong as the paint still came off with the masking after scoring the edges.

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I used a mix of Tamiya and Model Master acrylics for painting. I tried the technique of post-shading with Tamiya Smoke for the first time. I also used pastel chalk for the first time on an aircraft model. The decals are a combination of kit decals and Aeromaster. I had to get the Aeromaster sheet after about half the decals from the kit would not come off the sheet!

David

Photos and text © by David M. Reinecke