Do-335A bomb bay 1:48 is a photo-etched detail set from the Czech manufacturer Eduard that details the internal bomb bay on a model of the Dornier Do 335 A. It is not an airplane kit but an add-on to one.
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This item is not an aircraft kit but a photo-etched detail set from the Czech manufacturer Eduard. It consists of parts etched from thin metal sheet with which the internal bomb bay on a plastic model of the Dornier Do 335 A in 1:48 scale is detailed. Injection-molded plastic can only suggest such a bay roughly, because the walls have to have a certain thickness for molding. Photo-etch, by contrast, is a fraction of a millimeter thin, so the stiffeners, the ribbing and the small mechanisms look far more believable in miniature.
The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil was a twin-engine aircraft with an unusual powerplant arrangement. One engine worked at the front with a tractor propeller, the other was mounted behind the cockpit and drove a pusher propeller at the end of the fuselage. The tandem solution gave the aircraft the power of a twin without the aerodynamic losses that engine nacelles in the wing bring. The A series version had an internal weapons bay in the lower fuselage, so it did not have to carry its load on external racks under the airframe.
The parts are separated from the fret with a sharp knife or a scalpel on a hard surface, never with nippers. The bends come out more accurately in a photo-etch bending tool; at a pinch two razor blades and a steel rule will do. They are bonded with super glue applied on the tip of a toothpick; on larger areas slower-setting epoxy proves useful, as it gives time to align the part. It is good to degrease the place the photo-etch will go and to remove the original molded detail beforehand. It pays to treat the metal with a base coat before painting, otherwise the paint holds badly on the smooth surface. Printed parts, if the set contains any, are not overpainted.
The set is an add-on to a plastic kit. The model itself, glue and paints are not included in the package.
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