Came out as a pretty nice Dornire. Lovely work.

mi hidroavion favorito, muy buen trabajo

@primativemodelling Troublesome yet elegant kit; thanks!

obrigado por compartilhar, Alan!!!

The Spanish air museum also owned a Do-24... or at least I think that they still own it. It has always been on display outdoors, but since weather and weather change makes no good to no machine in the long run, it suffered from its consequences and looked so sadly worn out. Last time I paid a visit to the museum I couldn´t find it. I guess they´re restoring it in a hangar, beside some other aircraft. It seems that currently, there is only one flyable Do-24, powered by turbines.

I'm liking Italaeri (italeri nowadays) more & more , i've bought their Do 24 T , mine has 3 German 1 French 1 Spanish decal / colour option(s) , i've also bought their : Me 323 , Ju 86 , Ju 52 , Do 217 E , Go 244 / 242 they look brilliant (very) good value for € !!! I've only finished the Ju 52 and Do 217 sofar , yet, after testfitted the rest i conclude that Italaeri rocks . btw nice car your avatar Alan... :) Thanks for upload .

Beautiful... I have the Revell kit of this plane (not sure if it may even be the same kit?) but will build mine as the Swedish Tp 24, I think.. I have a sheet of after market decals for it.. somewhere! :) You did a great job of that model, it looks great, in spite of the trouble.. :) Sweden flew the Heinkel He-115 as well, by the way.. :)

Agreed. As I see it, Italeri kits are excellent save for certain errors on the building instructions, at least with older kits. I have some Italeri kits built too, mostly in 1/72nd scale (Hudson Mk.X, Spitfire Mk.IX, He-111H-6, Ju-87B-2, Ju-88A-4, B-26K Counter-Invader, C-130E, SR-71A, Su-27D, F-22A, BAe Sea Hawk, Sea Harrier FRS.Mk.I, RF-5A, Mig-29A, F/A-18B and TB-58A Hustler), plus Curtiss P-40M, A-4F and F-16A in 1/48th. I have yet more Italeri kits to build, though.

Gracias. Un hidroavión realmente elegante. Pero a mí también me llamó la atención lo compacto, robusto y bonito que era el caza hidro Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu. Y el Nakajima A6M2-N Rufe (la versión hidro del famoso Cero) tiene el encanto de lo clásico.

Thank you very much, but after having had a look at some images in Google, now I´m unsure on whether wings should rather be straight or with not so much dihedral- it´s too late to change it now, anyway.

It's a great ride ....... smoooooooth as silk . Greeetings :)

Wow! good model man, very interesting plane:)

Yes: wingspan on these boats was 27metres, 5 metres wider than the He115. If you get the chance, go to the museum in Soesterberg (Netherlands) - you can see the real thing there :-)

@888HamilkarBarkas888 I think that now I can forget about the Do-18, which I find rather similar in a way...

@AlanMartinNala Well, I AM Swedish, after all.. and have been in the Swedish Air Force.. so an interest in Swedish aircraft comes natural to me.. :) The German version probably would be more interesting, but the Swedes only had ONE Dornier Do-24, and the story behind it is quite interesting too.. :) So that will be my choice.. :)

@chancerNW At first, I thought of painting it with Spanish markings (silver above and sky blue below), but I needed different turrets for that, which I don´t have. Thank you.

The car in my avatar is a 1978 Citroën GS Pallas :) You can see it more detail in one of my latest videos. Thanks for your comment!

@tankman13p66 One of the smartest seaplanes ever built to my view. I like it way batter than the modern amphibian version with turboprops.

great work :)

Just what I feared. Thank you very much, anyway...

@BasicModelling If I chose the Sweddish version, naturally I wouldn´t have had so many problems with the cammo pattern, since it was overall dark green, But I found the German ones more attractive after all. It seems to me that you like Sweddish aircraft, right? :) I think that another user of the He-115 was Finland, which was the other painting option of the Matchbox kit.

You did the wings correctly; the originals have a pronounced dihedral.

I'd love to see a Dornier Do 26 (not vacuum formed, but proper plastic kit) But this is on the list too LOL. congratulations btw. Greeetings & good 2013

@fliegeroh Those are thousands of planes, for which you need a hangar, certainly! :)

@100Tigrovi It seems that the occasional anger attacks I suffered because of pieces that refused to stick in place was worth after all X)

I'd love to try to build every Luftwaffe plane from 1939 to 1945 in 1/72 scale.

A fine looking model.

It\s awesome!

I recently purchased the newer version of this from Italeri and it has raised panel lines. I noticed that you choose not to rescribe? This is a task I find most daunting and was curious as to your decision not to rescribe the raised lines of this partiuclar model. I would love to avoid it if at all possible. Thanks.

cool with the swedish markings did you know it had diesel engines.

The wings are flat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_24 I have the old Italeri 1/72 Do 24 and have yet to build it. Glad I saw this video before I attempted it. It does look troublesome.

@AlanMartinNala Yes I like it too If I find that model I would by it without thinking! :)

Checking one of my books...wings should be "flat" (straight), sorry!

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