Good day,

This little project was my Xmas present this year from my family and it represents my first large scale build of any kind, what a way to start out.

My gift is a short kit of the Dornier Do 335 81" wingspan from Wings of the Web. It turns out the short kit was laser cut by some company in Italy and came with plans and a walkthough of the build on paper and DVD. So after three days of studying everything I started on December 28th. I have run into a couple of problems, some I caused myself of course but one in particular seems to be in the plans. I have found one other person building a 71" version off the same plans supplied by Wings of the Web and they also are dealing with the problem. The problem is with the fuselage formers which the plane has 20 of. Beginning at F15 which is located right at the rear of the wing the formers should decrease in size gradually to the tail, but they step up and down in size instead almost like they were mis-labeled during the drawing transfer. It made for an interesting couple of hours to work out a plan to fix this problem.

Anyhow I am a month into my build now and I am farther along than these pictures show right now but I didn't have a lot of time to resize my other photos yet. I will post more as I get some time off work in the next couple of days and I am sure I will be fishing for help from all you experts that troll the boards and I will tell you about some of my other mistakes I have made.

Mel