Flipper Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Hi folks I have built quite a few 1/144 airliners over the years with varying degrees of success, but I severely lost my mojo for building them. I've had this kit in the stash for well over a year now, so I thought why not get back into building them and here's the result. 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Excellent build ! The flawless paint job is outstanding the intakes and the turbine blades ( nice spiral ) look really convincing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisTheBear Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Not a scale I build, but that is a NICE airliner! DennisTheBear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widow 65 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Absolutely outstanding! the finish is amazing, well done sir. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael301757 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 That looks really nice,beautiful finish and the engines look great, well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbofan Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Well, I think your mojo is well and truly restored! Don't particularly like the aeroplane but the model is gorgeous! I love your engines. Was the spiral difficult? Which colour did you use for the fan blades? Any plans for more airliners? I hope so! Cheers, Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 (edited) Cheers guys, again the comments are very much appreciated. Ian the spirals were part of the kit. They are such a pain to conform to the shape of the cone, so what I did with this one, was to get a brand new scalpel blade, and careful under a magnifiying glass cut round and into the swirl, so when I laid it on it conformed to the shape almost straight away. If you blow into the engines the blades turn, which I think is quite cool. For the metallics I used Vallejo Metal Color paints, which I thin to about a 70-30 mix with Tamiya X20A. The colour on the blades if I remember rightly was their Magnesium, and the colour on the leading edge of the engines and wings is their Duraluminium colour. I used to spray the Vallejo Metal Colours neet, however I was having real problems with them, I then thinned them to the 70% Paint to 30% Thinners and AB at a low air pressure and since then I've had no problems. Just remember thin coats, don't flood the area. I then coated the full plane with the new USA Johnston's/Pledge formula. Also the white on the plane is Tamiya's X2 Gloss white, and thinned with Mr Color Self Leveling Thinners, which even without the Kleer coat gave a brilliant shine. One more thing after the last coat of the new Kleer, I dripped small amounts of Microscale's Kristal Clear in the window frames, if you look closely you can just about see the reflections. I've got several more in the pipeline. Ive got the Revell Tupolev (Russian Concorde, I forget the model), Revell Airbus A320 Etihad, Revell Embraer, and a Boeing 737-800 with the sweetie bear on it. I normally have two builds on the go at any one time, so I'm going to build a car or bike, and an aircraft at the same time. Anyway again thanks for the comments guys Cheers Edited December 24, 2016 by Flipper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Fantastic result - without doubt, one of the best airliners I have seen on BM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchem Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Very impressive return to civvie street with a cracking build and a stunning finish. Looking forward to more.....SOON ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky coffeeboat Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Absolutely beautiful model. Great finish and very neat masking. Well done, now crack on with the other airliners in your stash. Jeff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skodadriver Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 What a wonderful model and a stunning finish Out of interest what colour did you use for the grey? I tried to match CX grey on an A330 years ago and never got it right but yours looks spot on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1978 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Teriffic job on this model.The paint job and finish is outstanding. I dont' really like the A350s looks but this is a stunning model 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 8 hours ago, Skodadriver said: What a wonderful model and a stunning finish Out of interest what colour did you use for the grey? I tried to match CX grey on an A330 years ago and never got it right but yours looks spot on. Cheers guys your comments are very much appreciated and I'm glad I've got my mojo back for them, hopefully I don't loose it with my next build. I know it looks like I painted the bottom half grey, but other than the blueish strip all the plane is white, there's no grey on the underside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeltc Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Wow Flipper that turned out great! The A-350 looks stunning in The Cathay Pacific markings. Im still only about a week off of getting some paint on my Qatar A-350. Hopefully it comes out half as nice as this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinSK Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Fantastic and very clean model. I like it a lot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Lovely! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanthony Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Nicely done, especially the paint job! One little thing I noticed is that it seems you mounted the little exhausts under the engine backwards. The pointed end should be facing aft: http://www.airteamimages.com/pics/164/164014_big.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Rhodes Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 The A350, especially the cockpit windows are still growing on me, but that is very nicely done! Just got some Mr Colour Levelling Thinner to try with Tamiya acrylics after seeing many recommendations - after seeing this, tempted to try Tamiya X2 white on my next build, thank you. Darren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flipper Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) On 26/12/2016 at 4:04 AM, wanthony said: Nicely done, especially the paint job! One little thing I noticed is that it seems you mounted the little exhausts under the engine backwards. The pointed end should be facing aft: http://www.airteamimages.com/pics/164/164014_big.jpg Cheers again folks your comments are very much appreciated. Anthony I've just checked the pics I took of an A350 and your right, they should be round the other way. Typically with Revell though they have it wrong in the instructions. I do know better than to trust them. Its an easy fix as they are just PVA'd in. Edited December 27, 2016 by Flipper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanthony Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 15 minutes ago, Flipper said: Typically with Revell though they have it wrong in the instructions. They seem to get that one small piece wrong every time don't they? Anyway it's perfect now, well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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