airscale 3D hangar - Looong term project 1/32 Do17Z

[Shoggz]

Terrific stuff Craig.

[CraigH]

54 minutes ago, Shoggz said:

Terrific stuff Craig.

🙏 thanks 

[Greif8]

Highly impressive work on all fronts.  The kit should sell well due to both the high quality of the kit components and the subject.

 

Ernest

[RCPlym]

On 10/26/2025 at 5:23 PM, airscale said:

thank you folks

 

My little Dornier Werke has turned out another set of parts... this time painted for me by my great friend Leo at our Tangmere club masterclass where he used it as a demo mule to teach us his secrets..

 

..these are pretty rough 3D printed parts with no filler or prep - in the kit they will be IM

 

I am so thrilled with how it looks

 

 

 

 

 

 

..got some more bits on the way, then after Telford I will go back to the main surfacing

 

TTFN

Peter

My goodness me!

That is absolutely stunning.

 

[Rowdy Rat]

On 10/26/2025 at 1:23 PM, airscale said:

thank you folks

 

My little Dornier Werke has turned out another set of parts... this time painted for me by my great friend Leo at our Tangmere club masterclass where he used it as a demo mule to teach us his secrets..

 

..these are pretty rough 3D printed parts with no filler or prep - in the kit they will be IM

 

I am so thrilled with how it looks

 

 

“In the kit they will be IM”

 

I gather from that statement Peter, you intend to do a kit on this as well?

 

I may have passed on your first two offerings, but if you decide to market a 1/32 Do 17…  I’m all in!  I hope that is the case!

 

Regards,

 

Stan Falenski

[williamj]

Peter, I have run out of superlatives, but I will definitely own one.

[airscale]

well, I returned to the Dornier today and found a bit of an issue...

 

the file with all the airframe just doesn't exist - I have no idea how, or why or what I did, but it has gone.. i still have the engine, cockpit U/C and tail, but ..the fuselage and in particular the three solid weeks of unmitigated Rhino agony I spent trying to get the fuselage/wing fillets have just evaporated

 

I am super confused...

 

I have had a new laptop since but everything is on the cloud and the old one just has the same files stored. It is not even as if I saved something else over it in the rush to get stuff ready for Telford, the file just is not there

 

I don't know if this is a setback, or terminal, but the idea of doing all that all over again needs serious contemplation , all I know is I am very forking pissed off

[LSP_Kevin]

Are you using a Mac, Peter? If so, perhaps you have a Time Machine backup to refer to?

 

Kev

[Iain]

Oh Peter,

 

I really feel for you...

 

Can you contact whoever is providing your cloud storage to see if they can recover anything from backups?

 

Iain

[mozart]

Blimey that’s soul destroying Peter. It’s got to be there somewhere surely? Bloody hope so. 

[nmayhew]

1 hour ago, LSP_Kevin said:

Are you using a Mac, Peter? If so, perhaps you have a Time Machine backup to refer to?

 

Kev

 

That was my first thought too.

 

Gutted to hear this Peter.

Take a deep breath, have a stiff whisky...and then another

 

Hope you find the files.

[thierry laurent]

If you know the last day you saved the file, do a search for all files created on that day, including temporary ones. There is a rather high probability one version of that file is still existing if you saved it several times.

[mc65]

40 minutes ago, thierry laurent said:

If you know the last day you saved the file, do a search for all files created on that day, including temporary ones. There is a rather high probability one version of that file is still existing if you saved it several times.

And/or, if I may suggest, look for other files in the same time frame that show abnormal weight.

 

 

[airscale]

okay, okay, it's been an odd 24hrs..

 

yesterday I opened literally every Rhino file I have looking for this damned file - hundreds of them...

 

today I went back to basics and went back to the Do17 folder and opened the 3 files I thought it must have been one of before I must have done something to it. crudely titled Do17, Do17-Z and Fuselage Outline...

 

Fuselage outline opens in a front view which looked like an early attempt I made to define the primary outline curves - I had opened the file 5 times before, I had zoomed around it, checked for hidden objects and ruled it out as the master file

 

It is not - it IS the master file, I just didn't recognise how I had coloured the surfaces and had merged hidden and visible surfaces into one view, so everything was all lumped together..

 

I am officially senile, and this project is back on track

[geedubelyer]

Phew!! 

 

That's a relief 

 

Very glad it reappeared. 

What have you called it so we can remind you when this happens next time?