This is the Douglas
DC-2 "Capitan Vara del Rey". Before the beginning of the Spanish Civil
War, this plane was property of the "LAPE" (Lineas Aereas postales de
España) Spanish Postal Airlines, but when the war began this plane
was sent to Sevilla from Madrid to attack the rebel forces in the North of
Africa, but Captain Vara del Rey make useless one of the plane´s engine,
finally the rebels captured this plane and it was used as bomber and the official
plane of General Franco during the war.
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This model is made
from the box, no photo etched or scratch built items. This is the color scheme used:
Brown: Tamiya X-9 (Brown)
Green: Humbrol 102 (Army Green)
Grey: Gunze H-70 (RLM02 Gray)
Lower part of the plane - Blue: Gunze H-67 (RLM65 Light Blue).
The undercarriage is
painted with Humbrol 56 and Alclad II Chromo and the helix with Alclad II
Aluminium and black XF-1 Tamiya.
The decals are very thin, and they adapt very well, of course I used Micro Set
and Micro Sol to fix the decals.
Making the model has some problems to enclose some parts of the plane as the
union of the fuselage and the wings, using putty and sand this parts can be
adapted, other problem is that I had to reduce the wide of the interior of the
plane to close the fuselage.
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