Hasegawa Geek

Cheers all for the great information, I appreciate it. My intent is to fully use all Mr Color lacquer paints from now on. I have a better airbrush and spray booth set-up and can easily spray these paints now. However, I have one airliner that I need to use specific Xtracolor paints on for a British Airways Landor livery. Xtracolor makes the two perfect matches for the grey and blue, so I am not sure what type of clear coat to spray on top of it. I don't want to use Future anymore. Yes, I normally brush it on by hand, and then do a low PSI airbrush job at the end to get a semi-gloss finish. Not the best, but it has been reliable and non-toxic to spray in a less-then-great ventilated area. What do Mr Color lacquers typically like being thinned to, including the Mr. Color GX clear coats?

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Anyone? Can Xtracolor be thinned with mineral spirts and coated with Mr Clear?

Hello gents, I recently wanted to get back into building and usually avoided airliners that required colors to be painted besides grey and white, lol. I have a couple of tins of Xtracolor and bought some mineral spirits to thin them with. Can anybody suggest any tips about how to spray this paint and what a good thinning ratio is to airbrush? I'd also like to get away from using Future floor wax as my clear coats. I've read Gunze Clear is a good clear coat, but again, how is this applied via airbrush, will it hurt decails/certain paint, thinning ratio, etc. I don't want glass-like finishes on my airliners, but something that is a little smoother than the typical Future finish. Cheers

Alex, thanks so much, thats amazing! What surprises me is that the box doesn't have the "Swissair decals included" sticker on the box. Safe to assume all the Air France 742 kits being sold in Switzerland would have those decals? Do we know if any other Hasegawa kits had Swissair decals added?

Thank you. Do you have any source of Swiss modeling forums or shops that I could find the 747-200 Swissair kit? I would pay big money for one.

Thanks for the clarification on the price tag.

Hi, after 10 years of searching for this kit, I was able to find it in Switzerland. It was never advertised and I only knew about it from a friend who said he saw it for sale in 1986 at ZRH. It was clearly for the Swiss market so I can not confirm if it was sold in any other European countries. I know that they also included Swissair decals in the Air France 747-200 kit, which I have yet to see. The price tag is from Franz Carl Weber, a Swiss toy store. I don't know if the date is "September 1990" or if that is the price. Someone can help? Unfortunately, the kit did not have the instruction guide with it. I'd like to know if they included a separate decal guide for the Swissair decals or not. Does anybody have photos of the 747-200 Swiss kit or an instruction guide for this kit? Do we know if Hasegawa added decals to any other kits for different airlines i.e. Iberia, etc. Thank you!

Interesting conversion. Keep us updated.

Cheers all and thanks for the kind words. Ian, I originally tried to use the Two-Six sheet. The cheatlines were clearly not designed for the Hasegawa kit, as they did not line up and with the fuselage whatsoever. The tail piece however fit great, so I left those on. I talked to Nick at Classic Airlines and he was able to size his SIA sheet exactly to the Hasegawa kit and sent me a sheet. Perfect fit.

Hello, This is a refurbishment project I did on a Hasegawa 747 kit. I bought this kit partially assembled from 1989 and many broken and cracked pieces of plastic, glue everywhere and unfilled windows. I figured it would be a fun project and decided to put an easy livery on it. This plane is 9V-SIB, Singapore's 2nd 747 in the fleet in 1973. It flew for about 5 different airlines, including PanAm, until being stored in Oregon in 2013 with Evergreen livery. I got to walk around the same aircraft last year and it is in great shape, but has no engines on it. I modeled my plane with very light weathering as these were immaculate at the beginning of their life in SIA fleet. -1981 Hasegawa Air France 747-200 kit -Classic Airlines cheatline decals -26 Decals tail piece -DRAW Decals wing corogards -Tamiya and Alclad paint -Future Foor Polish clear coat

Great model! You can't even notice the nose issues on this build, the red and animals steal the show. The engines are fab.

Beautiful model and subject. Teeming with 1980's nostalgia.

Really nice MD-11 and great finish. What is your method for painting the grey and chrome belly? Do you put the chrome on first then mask off the wing root and shoot the grey or vice versa? I realize masking the Alclad chrome ruins the sheen. Thanks

Hi John, I will check with my mail getter about the decals. I have not been home for a few weeks but I am sure they have arrived safely. Sometimes it takes months(!) for parcels to arrive from the UK to me for some reason. Hopefully this isn't the case! Thank you again. Bill