Authentic Airliners Boeing 727 engines, Resin 1/144 scale engines and intakes. Options

[richellis]

Authentic Airliners Boeing 727 resin engines, and intakes
Resin conversion, and upgrade set

The Boeing 727, is a three engine airliner designed by Boeing to bring jet travel to the masses, it was designed to operate from short runways with a complex system of flaps. The 727 has 3 engines, all on the back of the aircraft. This Authentic Airliners set has both side engines, and centre intake, and exhaust. Authentic Airliners offer both the round 200 centre intake, as well as the more Oval 100 centre intakes to alow the Airfix kit to be converted to a 727-100.
As I have used this set in a build I will look at the centre engine first.

Centre engine
Authentic Airliners offer both the 100, and 200 intakes. On the Left is the 100, with the 200 on the right.

The casting on all the parts are first class, with no bubbles, or miss casting any where. There are no instructions in the kit on where to cut, or fit the parts but it is very simple. I mesured the resin part, and cut the Airfix kit to the same size. The fuselage on the top has been cut, the bottom one is the un-cut kit part.

the resin fits like a glove. the height and width are spot on, and needed no filler to blend it in to the kit.

This part gives a nice deep and shaped intake with out needing to fill inside the intake as will be needed with the kit parts. the exhaust only needs the locating tab on the kit fuselage to be removed and then it gules on with no problems. inside the exhaust end there is a nice and fine fan, that looks great under a black wash after painting! Very hard to get a picture though!

Side engines

these engines are in 2 parts, with a moulding tab on the mating surface that will need careful cutting and sanding to give a good joint. I found that they needed some sanding so that they would sit against the Airfix kit snugly. The fan detail is again outstanding. A spot of paint, and a dark colour wash brings this to life, and is so much better than the kit parts. Again with the resin there is no need to try and sand the intakes. The surface detail is very fine, and the shape looks spot on.
Ive shown a few pics of the engines in place.

Conclusion
This is a very nice resin set, that is of a very high quality that you would expect from authentic Airliners. The 727-100 intake will be great for people that want to convert the Airfix kit. A recomended set, both for the conversion, and the extra detail. The build thread can be seen Here

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This post has been edited by richellis: Aug 27 2010, 11:16 AM