My collection of Douglas Commercials (DC) in ascending numeral order begins with this DC-2. There was also a DC-1 prototype, but the first true actual airliner was the DC-2 series. The kit is a Czech resin kit in 1/144th scale (Czech Master Resin #1007), my first attempt of a resin kit and also the only one so far.
The original plane was manufactured in United States and assembled in Netherlands by Fokker for Czech Air Lines. During the WWII it was transferred to Lufthansa and lastly bought by the Finnish national carrier Aero Oy (later known as Finnair). 'Voima' means 'power' or 'strength' in English.
The quality of this limited run kit was quite good with fine recessed panel lines and good shapes for a DC-2. The fuselage was moulded in 2 halves while the wings were made as a single part. Landing gear was cast in extra-strength resin.
I used cyanoacrylate for this kit, as the fittings seemed to be okay. Priming the surface for aluminum paint was a bit tricky because the resin was quite hard to handle and I'm not completely satisfied with the results. I painted the model with a flat wide paintbrush using Miranol enamel paint, the model is so small that it wasn't too difficult to get a nice paint coat by brush.
There were many options provided with the European operators decal sheet, besides the Czech, German and Finnish versions it was possible to build a KLM or Swiss Air Lines DC-2. The final decision was between Lufthansa and Aero, but in the end I liked the blue cross tail of our national flag best. If this kit wasn't so expensive, I'd be trying out for a Lufthansa plane right away. Decals were a bit fragile, but they finished the DC-2 look perfectly.
My collection of Douglas Commercials (DC) in ascending numeral order begins with this DC-2. There was also a DC-1 prototype, but the first true actual airliner was the DC-2 series. The kit is a Czech resin kit in 1/144th scale (Czech Master Resin #1007), my first attempt of a resin kit and also the only one so far.
The original plane was manufactured in United States and assembled in Netherlands by Fokker for Czech Air Lines. During the WWII it was transferred to Lufthansa and lastly bought by the Finnish national carrier Aero Oy (later known as Finnair). 'Voima' means 'power' or 'strength' in English.
The quality of this limited run kit was quite good with fine recessed panel lines and good shapes for a DC-2. The fuselage was moulded in 2 halves while the wings were made as a single part. Landing gear was cast in extra-strength resin.
I used cyanoacrylate for this kit, as the fittings seemed to be okay. Priming the surface for aluminum paint was a bit tricky because the resin was quite hard to handle and I'm not completely satisfied with the results. I painted the model with a flat wide paintbrush using Miranol enamel paint, the model is so small that it wasn't too difficult to get a nice paint coat by brush.
There were many options provided with the European operators decal sheet, besides the Czech, German and Finnish versions it was possible to build a KLM or Swiss Air Lines DC-2. The final decision was between Lufthansa and Aero, but in the end I liked the blue cross tail of our national flag best. If this kit wasn't so expensive, I'd be trying out for a Lufthansa plane right away. Decals were a bit fragile, but they finished the DC-2 look perfectly.
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