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CD72044 - Dornier Do-228


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CD72044 will be a sheet dedicated to military users of the Dornier Do-228, intended for the Revell kit. Markings for Germany, Italian Army, Thai Navy, Indian Navy/ Air Force, possibly Finnish Border Guards and Dutch Kustwacht (Coast Guard), and Nigeria if I can find out more about the camouflage scheme. Sometime in early 2016.

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When you're talking about Germany, do you mean the pollution control birds out of MFG3?

Hoops

I think the pollution control scheme has been recently done by Revell, I had a plain Marineflieger example in mind. It all depends on how much space I will have on the sheet, though. I will collect your feedback here when I start putting the design together later this month.

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I presume the radome must be improvised through scratch am I correct?

Luis, this was just a representative photo I've pulled from the research file to give a general idea. I have many photos of Indian Do-228 without the radome, and will choose the actual options on the sheet to minimize kit modification & scratchbuilding. That said; I am usually not afraid of including a particularly attractive option even if requires a limited amount of scratchbuilding. For example; some of the options I am considering (Dutch Coast Guard, etc.) are often seen with the Terma SLAR antenna which will require some modification to the kit.

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Just finished the design last night - a final round of geometry/color checks, and it will be off to printing. The options are:

- 2 x Indian Navy (one overall gray, one in the older white/blue scheme)

- 1 x Indian Air Force

- 1 x Finnish Border Guards (Rajavartiolaitos) (*)

- 1 x Dutch Coast Guard (Kustwacht)

- 1 x Italian Army

- 1 x Thai Navy

Very limited (250) run, probably no possibility of a reprint. Likely to be the only military Do-228 sheet you might ever see. I just like this plane.

There was no space left for a German option - sorry. I think pretty much every boxing of this kit came with decent German decals by Revell.

(*): This is quite a mouthful for a law enforcement organization. I wonder if there is a short form of this, sort of like FBI officers are called "Feds". Perhaps they are called "Rajs" or "Rajas"? Just wondering ;-)

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This sheet is ready, and I will enable preorders in a few minutes. Only 250 available.

Yet another subject that is not likely to be done by anyone else - I basically made this sheet because I really like the airplane. If this does well, there will be a few other sheets for military operators of civilian twins, such as Twin Otter and Islander/Defender.

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This sheet is ready, and I will enable preorders in a few minutes. Only 250 available.

Yet another subject that is not likely to be done by anyone else - I basically made this sheet because I really like the airplane. If this does well, there will be a few other sheets for military operators of civilian twins, such as Twin Otter and Islander/Defender.

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Just ordered a set.

Aren't you releasing a sheet for the Twin Otter soon?

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The Do-228 sheet is sold out.

Thanks for your interest in quirky subjects such as this one - I enjoy doing these once in a while. The Piaggio Avanti and Twin Otter sheets are coming soon, and I hope you will like those as well.

 

And if you missed it, don't fret - someone else is surely bound to do a military Do-228 sheet in the next two decades or so. ;-)

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