Got started on the Do-17Z sent to me by Zipmeister, Steve Arnold. It's going pretty well. As with most Hobbycraft kits it is light on cockpit detail, so I am having fun adding stuff here and there, bits of left over P-47 sidewalls, a B-25 recycled throttle quadrant turned sideways, whatever looks about right. I am not trying to replicate the original in any exact manner, I just want to make it look busy in a German sort of way. I found a couple of good reference sites on the web. One guy really did a fine job on the kit so I stole his instrument panel and printed it with a color laser printer on photo paper, I think it came out well. I have fitted the Squadron canopy set and Futured them. I added Eduard seat belts.
The last photo is there to show a way to fix a flaw in the Hobbycraft kit. I think this is the newest release, and it is less affected than earlier releases by having an upward warp to the lower fuselage half. As I saw in another modeler's build, I cut the fuselage bottom aft of the wing root after gluing the front section, and then glued it to the top, conforming to the shape of the fuselage top. The bend seems slight, but if the fix isn't made the airplane will look like a tired old horse. I just made a crude cut with a saw in my dremel, and superglued the joint.
