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Hi, pemodoller. Thanks I'm glad that you like it. The red part of the hull is Tamiya TS-33 Dull Red spray paint.

It's looking great with the corrections! I'm glad you're still going with it! I've been out of my house since December last year after a burst pipe in my attic flooded my entire house, so I've been out of action since while I'm staying at my parents. My unbuilt Concordes got thrown out by the clean up team. Very unimpressed!!

On Draw Decal's website, it says there is an option to post to the UK: United Kingdom Decals Only via FedEx NO VAT COLLECTED $33.00 I've used the window decals for this kit, but I can't remember if I bought them before Brexit, which is what caused the suspension of postage to the UK. F-DCAL also offers decal options for this kit.

Oh wow, there were a lot more variations than I realized! It looks like they were all painted freehand! That position of the engineer's console has caught me out before. I had to remove part of the flight deck floor locating tabs to be able to slide the whole thing back. Otherwise, the instrument panel will interfere with the front windows also:

The horiztontal stabilizers are smaller on the MD-11. This photo shows the size difference quite well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD-11#/media/File:MD11_AND_DC10_varig_comparison.jpg

Do you know anything about the different designs? I remember the option for AA was included in the decal sheet of the Revell kit, but I never knew it was applied to an operational Concorde. I always just assumed the liveries were the same. What are you building yours in? Or is that a secret for now!

I'm looking forward to following along! It's interesting to see the slightly different positions of the blue and red parts of the vertical stabilizer between the AE and AF there. On AE, the blue stripe reaches to just below the rudder actuator fairing: Whereas on AF, it reaches slightly up the side of the fairing: When I built the Revell 1:144 kit, it came three versions of tail markings - solid, feathered, and a different shape of stripes. But I've never noticed any different versions of the Chatham livery before!

Oh wow, they also do the JT8Ds with thrust reversers open. That would look good! I don't have any 737s left to build though. Those build pictures look great! I love the old United colours.

I can't see any photos of your Trident from that link. I'm also glad that Airfix are releasing their older kits - I think they still turn out pretty nicely!

I'm in! I've bought another one... 😬 I'm really interested to see how much the PE set will improve it!

G-BOAF isn't far away from me, but I have yet to visit it! The Heller Concorde 1:72 kit is the same as the Airfix and Revell kits. However, the decals are the product of each company, and the Heller decals were the worst to use. They were very stiff, and I had a lot of difficulty applying the tail decal over the rudder actuator fairings, because the decals would not conform to the curves. No amount of decal softening solution or hot water helped, and in the end, the decals cracked around the fairings, which eventually helped them settle in place.

I was thinking of correcting the nose, but I didn't know if cutting off that nubbin would leave a hole that would be awkward to fill. The new kit looks like it has different nose options, so I will have a look at that kit soon. I noticed the painted intakes when I looked at some pictures of XH558 - I think I might be able to mask them and brush-paint the insides of the intakes fairly easily.

There have been quite a few builds of the new Vulcan kit recently, so apologies for the Vulcan overload. But many of you will probably know I mostly make 1:144 airliners, so for me, this is a bit of a change. I've had this Airfix kit sitting waiting to be built for the last 8 or so years. This is the old tooling of the Avro Vulcan in the "XH558 Vulcan to the Sky" red box edition. I only saw the Vulcan fly once, over Gloucestershire Airport in 2015 I think it was. I didn't get there in time, so I stopped on a bridge a mile or so away just in time to see it swooping low over the airfield. For this build, I used Humbrol 165 spray, which is mid sea grey. The instructions say 164 dark sea grey, but 164 isn't available in a spray. In any case, I think 165 works well with the camouflage. The green is Revell 68 dunkelgrün, brush-painted. I would like to build the new one just to compare. I've really enjoyed this build - it's given me something different to do, and for me at least, it's a nice subject to display alongside my airliners.

Where have you been 😄 I've got the two BA ones side by side on the table in the living room - the AF one is in my office upstairs. But I still have the Negus one to build too and wondering where I can put him when he's done! I'm getting a display case on Friday for my smaller 1:72 builds, so I might have to spend some time at the weeekend rejiggling my models... How far have you got with yours?

He is a big boy for sure. Here he is next to my 777-300ER: Its size does make it cumbersome to move around, especially while sanding the wing roots. But, its size is also what makes it stand out from all the others, and everyone always comments when they see it.

I would be most interested if you have a set of gear legs and wheels!

My parents have the first DC-10 in Scandinavian colours. It has yellowed badly over the years, so I will probably give it to them as a replacement.

I haven't learned the skill of weathering - I am not brave enough to risk ruining the finish if it all goes wrong!

The DC-10 is one of my favourite airliners, but unfortunately, I've never been able to fly on one. My first exposure to the DC-10 was a Thai Airways Matchbox toy that I played with so much the paint came off. I've already built the Airfix DC-10 in SAS colours, but as you may know by now, I really like the British Airways Landor livery. I really wanted to have a DC-10 in my collection in this livery, and I'm glad to say that now I have one. There were no issues with the kit, except I bought it some years ago second hand - and discovered only after I started to build it that the landing gear was missing. And so was one of the flap actuator fairings, which on the same sprue as the landing gear, and I had to recreate one from plasticard. I really wanted to have the landing gear down (as is the case on my other airliners), so I ended up buying another kit (sealed, this time) just to get the landing gear. As was the case on the other DC-10 that I built, the only modifications were filing away the engine mounting points on the wings (which would have made the engines sit too close to the ground), and the center landing gear is repositioned to be in the correct place. The kit has mounting holes too far forward, and the landing gear doors are two pieces - they should be four, like the nose landing gear. I used Humbrol 15 gloss midnight blue spray, and Revel 371 light grey spray. The decals were 26 Decals, and were great to use. Being from Gloucestershire, I chose to make this G-BEBL Forest of Dean:

Still room for more 😀

I remember your Air France build - I think it looked really smart! Do you remember how the decals were? I really struggled to apply the tail decals that came with the Heller kit. They weren't sticky enough, and would not conform around the curves of the rudder actuator fairings. I may try an Air France one again some day...

I really like that subtle shift in silver shades - and the exhaust stains are spot-on!

I built this model for display on the window sill in my office. This is the second Heller 1:125 Concorde that I made; the first one I gave to a coworker several years ago. No real issues with the kit, but it's in Air France only. I bought the British Airways decals from F-DCAL, and they went on without any problems. The gaps under the wings needed some work, and there were no decals for the heated leading edges on either the Heller decal sheet, or the F-DCAL sheet. I wasn't even going to try to paint them by hand... This kit offers a positionable nose, but it has no mechanisms in it to connect the visor to the nose like the 1:72 has. Instead, Heller offers two visors to build the kit either in the raised position, or for lowered position. It's not entirely accurate in that with the second option, the visor sits on the nose, rather than inside it - it's just that the second visor is shorter to look like it has been retracted. For the Revell kit, I put the visor inside the nose, where it slides when the nose is lowered. I did try to mount the visor in the same place for the Heller build, but it's too large to fit inside the nose. In any case, the Heller kit has an accurate flight deck windows, in contrast to the flat-faced single-piece representation in the Revell kit (which I corrected with a resin replacement). And with its 1:144 cousins from Revell (left), Airfix (right), and the Airfix/Heller/Revell kit in 1:72 (back): You may also see the other 1:72 just off to the left...

Bonjour Maxime, et bienvenue chez Britmodeller! It's nice to see a Parisian here - I lived in Le Plessis-Robinson for six years, and I loved it there! I'm looking forward to seeing your models!

It turned out beautifully! It's a smart looking 727 in those colours.