Late on parade again, but I decided to have a go at an airliner after spotting this:

in my local ModelZone (the former Deansgate Models). She's a dinky li'l thang in a BA scheme
with a Celtic motif.
I can't get over the fact that this kit with 40 components has an instruction leaflet with
seven pages, and another sheet of safety advice.

Anyway, those 40 components look a bit like this.

There's a bit of flash but it should clean up easily.
Will make a start as soon as that little Fokker from the Great War GB is off the bench..........

"Golf Delta Romeo, this is Airliner GB Tower, clear to commence construction"
Apologies for the photos, it's late, the camera and I are both tired! Better photos will follow..........

Nice, Im doing one of these as well for the GB, it is a cracking little kit!

No need for the usual industrial quantities of white paint on this one then

I have several of these and a few made already
There are some hidden banana skins....
on mine, the windows are blue so need replacing.
The windows on the kit halves are recessed so either drill them out or fill
the cockpit windows are gross so fill that as well
the engines sit in a slightly strange way and arent quite right in shape, and the pylons need to be wider
as they are, they are very early 737, not the type used by BA
apart from that, if you buold it just as it is, it does look like a 737:)

Yes, I wasn't sure what to do about the cabin windows, what would the airliner veterans recommend, drill or fill??

Well, hardly an airliner veteran, but at 1/200 I'd definitely fill and use decals. If you drill, you will finish up with very many tiny window-shaped holes, which you will then need to do something with (unless you *like* holes).

yeah go ahead and fill them - I dont see decalled windows as a problem in 1/200 scale, all mine are filled.
that said, if you fancy doing some small reworking you could have clear cockpit windows.
...and dont forget, if the kit supplied wondows are blue dont use them, find some from elsewhere

ah, dont worry too much. Fill em all and use the decals in the kit, for an OOB build, it will look good, and save buying more decals!
Any progress Gaz?

Thanks for the advice, chaps, I will indeed fill the window depressions and represent the
windows by decals.
No progress to report so far, other than cleaning up parts. I'm currently concentrating on
my USN Floatfire for the "What if?" GB. When that's on it's way there'll be something to
report on this one.

not in blue they wont

Why not? Cus you said so?

cus windows arent blue

And, due to a lack of modelling time (and of the will to use that time to the best advantage),
this




is as far as I have got with this model for the GB. However, it's not just lack of will to produce an airliner,
my Floatfire for the What-if GB won't fly straight and level either! And the 737 looks worse in the
photos than it does on my desk!