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Dora wings Dewoitine D500


DrDave

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Made good progress

The surface detail is raised and refined

The cockpit opening large with rather a Spartan cockpit contains seat, PE belts, joystick and pedals with front and rear bulkhead

The instruments are injection moulded with decals or a choice of layered PE

Overall fit is pretty good once surfaces are scraped a little

The wing to fuselage has needed a little settling on one side necessitating creating a small gap below to avoid one at the wing root on top

It’s easily filled below

The  exhausts are not hollow and a bit crude

I have used copper tube
 

The only real issues I can see are the prop and spinner, not totally wrong per se, but many had a thicker wooden 2 blade with no spinner or a blunt spinner

This spinner is pointy and the props have too narrow a root

 

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Very very reminiscent of special hobby

A very good first effort in 1/32 which would benefit from a resin cockpit, exhaust, nose cone and prop to make it excellent. Hope they are working on those, or someone is

 

very enjoyable 

 

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That looks nice, do you have any pictures of the interior before you closed up the fuselage? Does your reference to it being 'spartan' refer to what's provided in the kit or the fact that there wasn't much in the real thing anyway?

 

I have one of the Dora Wings kits on the way to me but haven't received it yet; for some reason the D.500/501/510 series has always been a favourite of mine ever since I built the Heller 1/72 ones ages ago...actually, on reflection, it was more than 30 years ago.....help!

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1 hour ago, DrDave said:

 

The only real issues I can see are the prop and spinner, not totally wrong per se, but many had a thicker wooden 2 blade with no spinner or a blunt spinner

This spinner is pointy and the props have too narrow a root.

 


The thicker wooden 2-blade sans spinner is for the  D.501. The 3-metal blade blunt spinner is the D.510. Both versions are to be released next.

I admit that the prop included in the D.500 is none too convincing.

Good luck with your build,

Cheers,

Quang

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1 hour ago, quang said:

Spartan is the word :P

HTH

Quang

It certainly looks pretty basic alright.

 

Thanks for that, it will certainly be helpful when my kit arrives.....I did try looking online, but could find very little about the D.500 in general and almost nothing about its interior.

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