Airfix B737-200C Finnair Cargo

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

This will be my first entry. Been hanging on to this one for a while waiting to start.

 

 

 

[Grandboof]

Will be watching to see what you do with this 

Martin H

[Graeme H]

Hmm, no surprises with that scheme then, looking forward to this one very much

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

Yes, my 'white whale' contribution to the GB

 

When this one is done the next will have a little more colour.

[Rob S]

On 28/01/2018 at 5:37 PM, Romeo Alpha Yankee said:

 

 

Hey Ray do you want to sell or swap something for the kit's Ansett decals if you aren't going to use them? 

 

All of my -200 boxings are old and don't have those decals and if I ever get around to doing a -200 it'll be an Ansett one.

 

[vppelt68]

Never knew AY ever had these planes. Now I'm watching this with interest V-P

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

6 hours ago, Rob S said:

 

Hey Ray do you want to sell or swap something for the kit's Ansett decals if you aren't going to use them? 

 

All of my -200 boxings are old and don't have those decals and if I ever get around to doing a -200 it'll be an Ansett one.

 

PM sent Rob

4 hours ago, vppelt68 said:

Never knew AY ever had these planes. Now I'm watching this with interest V-P

I was also interested to find these decals, something different to all those DCs and MDs of the time.

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

Well its February 3 somewhere, here in fact so I have started.

 

I thought I would have a go at rescribing, made a few woopsies but overall not too bad. Looks like the picture I took of my efforts disappeared off the camera between taking the images and uploading them to the PC!(which may have been about an hour)

 

So I then filled the cabin windows since I will be using window decals, I usually fill them from the inside but the CA glue I have seems to be too thin for that. SO I backed the openings with tape and have used Tamiya putty.

 

 

Then I turned my attention to the doors

 

 

A bit of flash to clean up, and then they were installed

 

 

One thing to note with the Airfix instructions is that they have mixed up the numbers for the rear doors. Number 3 goes on the left side and 4 goes on the right. They were a good fit after a little sanding. the baggage compartment doors not so and will require some filling later.

[feoffee2]

Looking forward to seeing this 

[Viking]

Nice start Ray, I'm rather partial to cargo haulers myself. I look forward to seeing this one as it progresses.

 

Cheers

 

John

[CliffB]

An interesting choice Ray

Was there any special provision on the 200C for dealing with freight (for example a cargo door)?

Cliff

 

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

14 hours ago, CliffB said:

An interesting choice Ray

Was there any special provision on the 200C for dealing with freight (for example a cargo door)?

Cliff

 

Yes Cliff, this version has the forward cargo door. the decal sheet has a decal for it so I don't have to bother scribing one!

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

As I battle on with this one...

 

Checking if nose weight required....yep!

 

This much

 

Bit of an issue with the APU exhaust area

 

Sorted

 

Some putty for the windscreen

 

Nice Braz engines

 

Main assemblies together with some attention to the misshaped windscreen

 

 

and some more putty for a second attempt at reshaping

 

 

 

[Graeme H]

Almost went together without filler (not)

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

1 hour ago, Graeme H said:

Almost went together without filler (not)

Not when I am building them!

[Grandboof]

Looking good Ray 

Martin H

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

Thanks, Martin. I managed to prime the fuselage and found the seams and windows need more work, time for more putty!

[Lex77]

Nice work!
Got one of these in the stash to be build sometime.

The BraZ engines are they a big improvement over the kit ones?

[stringbag]

Hello Ray.

Funnily enough, I was talking with Viking the other night about the Braz engines and it was pointed out to me that they are far too short for the -200Adv. Looking again at my set, they are the same length as those supplied in the Airfix kit, but they do address the wider pylon problem.

Have a look at one of John's earlier -200 builds to see how to modify the Airfix engines. I'm sure you will agree, they look far better than the Braz items.  Alternatively, you could consider the magnificent resin engines from Authentic Airliners.

Hope I haven't posted too late with the info.

 

Chris.

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

1 hour ago, stringbag said:

Hello Ray.

Funnily enough, I was talking with Viking the other night about the Braz engines and it was pointed out to me that they are far too short for the -200Adv. Looking again at my set, they are the same length as those supplied in the Airfix kit, but they do address the wider pylon problem.

Have a look at one of John's earlier -200 builds to see how to modify the Airfix engines. I'm sure you will agree, they look far better than the Braz items.  Alternatively, you could consider the magnificent resin engines from Authentic Airliners.

Hope I haven't posted too late with the info.

 

Chris.

Chris,

 

Engines are not fitted yet.

 

I saw John's link to the older -200 build and did notice my Braz engines were the same length as the kit ones. I was considering the surgery options. Perhaps I might chop up and shim the Braz engine. I have a week off at the coast and away from the internet so I might see if I have time to modify them then.

[Romeo Alpha Yankee]

12 hours ago, Lex77 said:

Nice work!
Got one of these in the stash to be build sometime.

The BraZ engines are they a big improvement over the kit ones?

Lex, They have better pylon shape, but represent early (shorter) engines. They are devoid of any scribed detail, and the mating section to the wing needs a lot of material removed to get it to fit the wing nicely.

[stringbag]

I should have included a link in my previous post so here goes.

Chris.

[Mr B]

Fast work and nice outcomes thus far....waiting for the final product

 

i should have an update on mine before Monday hopefully

 

Rgds

 

[Viking]

There is a bit more info in this post Here  about how I started improving the Airfix engines. Hope it helps.

 

John

The key part from it is below;

In a related note, I have been building an Airfix 737-200 and decided to fix its engines.
All I knew was that they are too short and have too skinny pylons for all but the very earliest 737's built. Everyone on the web seems to have an opinion, but no other solution than to buy a set of Authentic Airliners resin replacements. So I though I would have a go myself, I have several of the kits and can't justify buying loads of aftermarket engines for them all.

Using my Authentic Airliners model as a reference I cut the rear part off and used an old bomb to lengthen them by about 4mm. Milliput was then run around the 'extension' and sanded flush.


So far so good.Is the extension the correct length? Compared to the AA kit;


Then I needed to fatten the pylons. Some 20 thou plasticard takes care of that

Filled with Milliput and sanded to shape;

 

Test fitted to check overall appearance

 

 

Engines are now primed with Halfords grey plastic primer, ready to go on the model.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pinky coffeeboat]

For all my Airfix 737 builds I now use Johns method of extension. I haven't got round to modifying the pylons but always extend the engines. The first time I placed a set of lengthened engines next to the older Airfix ones was quite an eye opener!!

 

Jeff