Dornier DO17Z-2 (Luftwaffe 7 Staffel)

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Dornier DO17Z-2 (Luftwaffe 7 Staffel) (1:72 scale)
- The prototype Do 17 was built in 1934 in response to a Lufthansa requirement for a 6-passenger mailplane. However the design was rejected, partly due to the slim fuselage which would later give the plane its nickname of ‘ The Flying Pencil’. Nevertheless military interest was shown in the design & it was developed as a medium bomber & long range reconnaissance aircraft. The Do 17Z was a development of earlier marks designed specifically as a medium bomber. It was used extensively on all fronts during WWII although by 1942 it started to be withdrawn from mainline duties. KG3 was a Luftwaffe bomber wing whose units participated on all of the fronts in the European theatre until it was disbanded in September-October 1944. It operated two of the major German bomber types; the Dornier Do 17 & the Junkers Ju 88. This model represents an aircraft of 7 Staffel, KG3 based on the Russian front during the winter of 1941/42. It wears a hastily applied overall wash of white camouflage, well suited to the severe winter weather on the eastern front.