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    Luftwaffe Aircraft Camouflage and Markings

    I'm curious about the squadron markings on German float planes. The reason for my curiosity is that I might try my hand at a DO217G, which was an E model on floats(it also had a single tail), and I'm thinking of a diorama of this along with either HE115 or HE59. Something along the lines of...
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    Luftwaffe Aircraft Camouflage and Markings

    I'm doing research on a DO217 project, 1/48 scale.I'm curious if there is any more information on KG2 markings beyond what in William Green's Warplanes of the 3rd Reich.
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    Aircraft Identification V

    Actually, there was a jet-powered biplane once before, but this was long before the turbine engine was even a fever dream. 1910 to be exact. The man who deisgned and built this was Henri Coanda. It was actually an early ducted fan, and helped Coanda to think of what we now call the Coanda...
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    Has 1/48 Hs129B-3

    I've a question.I'm also building an HS129, a B2 model with Hungarian markings planned. Not knowing any better(I got back into plastic modelling at the insistence of my wife), stumbled upon a Vector dealer and ordered a couple Gnome Rhones for it. They have been somewhat interesting to build...
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    R2800 vs R3350

    The biggest factor for the problems with the 3350 was the PRT. The PRT turbine wheels had a bad habit of destroying themselves at the worst moment. When I attended Spartan, one of my classmates told me about his experiences in a Connie squadron(EC121). What the mechanics used to do was to...
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    I'm trying the find pictures and/or cutaways of the DO217E4

    I'm trying to find pics and/or cutaway drawings of the DO217. I'd like to have internal shots of of the engine nacelles as well. Could anyone point me in the right direction? I really would not like to build the model I have of it "right out of the box".
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