I built up a Tamiya Do 335 as a post-war
Silberpfeil (Silver Arrow) racer several years ago,
shortly after it was released IIRC.
The backstory was that post-war there was a new international air-racing series with races that were
combination pylon and endurance events. Sort of like the Thompson races that gave birth to the Reno
air races, but a much longer course with races of longer duration. There would also have been Bendix style
cross-country races. I went so far as figuring out 'rules', breaking it down into single and twin engine
classes and then sub-classes by displacement etc. The aircraft paint schemes would have followed the
FAI international auto racing schemes:
Green = UK, Silver = Germany, Blue = France, Red =Italy, Blue&White = US etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_auto_racing_colorsSo, the Dornier was built gear up and the gun troughs filled in, then painted overall Silver (Tamiya Aluminum
Gloss buffed up with SNJ aluminum powder) with the registration
DO-335 across the bottom of the wings
and a Daimler-Benz logo on the cowling. The aircraft would have competed in the large displacement, twin-engine
class. The pilot was to be Rudi Stuck, fictional cousin of real world Auto Union
Silberpfeil driver Hans Stuck.
I used Rudi as his first name in honor of another Auto Union driver, Rudi Caracciola.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_ArrowsThe model got crunched a couple years later, and I had intended to build another but never got around to it. I sold
the replacement kit and most of the others I had intended (that word again) to build for my fictional Air-GP series
about four years ago. I don't recall that I ever got any photos of the Dornier before it met its messy demise.