Dornier Do 217E-3/E-4/E-5

Kelly Wellington
Well...So far, I've managed to bung up the dorsal turret. It's kattywampus and there's nothing I can do about it. Otherwise it's going together reasonably well.

Kelly Wellington
Oop...I spoke too soon. The main landing gear assembly is pretty fragile. I cut it out of the sprew and then squeezed it on to the assembled wheel....the two struts are held together with a fragile 'x' of fine bar which, if over manipulated, like placing on the wheels....broke in half. I had to glue the struts in to the wheels and set it up so the tiny spot where the fragile broken bars join can be delicately glued and allowed to set up. Still to come is even more fragile and ever so tiny support struts for the wheel fenders. *sigh*

Kelly Wellington
So...I'm nearing the end of this kit assembly. *chuckles ruefully* And I'm not proud of it at all. First of all, the dorsal turret is in cattywampus. The fit of the fuselage around the turret is poor. The landing gear were a challenge, but I think I did okay, even if they do look amateurish with gobbets of dried adhesive. But the coup de grace was when I was placing the many itsy-bitsy decals and I realized that I had put the exhaust manifolds on both engines (six total) on bassackwards. I thought them curious when putting them on, but I obviously seriously misread the instructions.

*deep sigh*

Another for the toy bin.