A Do-335 question

[Bosco123]

What type of rivets do a Do-335 have? I'm making a model which is coming out realy good and I want to make it as scale as I can.
So does anyone know?

[Xasthur]

Considering that it was a low production/prototype aircraft I suspect that extra care would have been taken to fill the rivets and most of the panel lines before painting. Typically, Luftwaffe fighters had slightly sunken rivets, not raised ones.

[Squire]

My understanding is that some hobby kits have the rivets not flush to ease in detailing, but the real a/c had flush, or slightly sunken rivets, as did most modern metal winged a/c in WW2. Certainly a late war a/c made by Dornier, would have had a very modern rivet design.

[MiloMorai]

Looking at photos in the Monarch-Monogram Do335 book of the restored A-0 WNr 240102 shows no rivets in most places and barely visible in some other places. Panel lines are clearly seen.

Some nice scale drawings of the Do335, http://www.albentley-drawings.com/dornier_do335.htm

[lyric1]

In all the pictures I have it looks very clean in the way of rivets one old black & white shows a few granted it is for the night fighter 2 seater.