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Hi all I am planning to build two A320CEO with sharklets of my current employer Discover Airlines. Here the problem is that kitbashing would be required. I could either buy the Zvezda/Revell A320NEO kits and then try to get CFM-56 engines from another kit (the old Revell kit) or do it other way round and buy the Zvezda A320CEO and add the sharklets from a NEO kit. Can anybody think of a better solution that would prevent me from buying 4 kits to have two planes? Regards Stefan

Hi Since I will start working for Edelweiss Air soon I would love to build a model of one of the company's jets. I have the Revell A320 kit with the Edelweiss decals but I am also planing to build a widebody. I know there used to be a Gio Decals set with Hawaiian, Air Caraibes and Edelweiss decals but it seems to be impossible to find these days and it is the old livery anyways. Does anybody know if there are any other Edelweiss Air decals available from other manufacturers? The livery is quite attractive (imo) and the types are available as kits from Revell. Thank you and best regards

Hi Thank you very much for your feedback. The foil I am intending to use can be found in most hardware stores. I bought a roll of 50m which is 50mms wide. Apparently it is used for insulation. Regarding the American Airlines color scheme, I am still trying to find out which ares were painted (or not). Were the wings (except for the Coroguard) and the tail fin polished metal as well? They appear to be different on pictures. What about the engines? They look flat as well? Any inputs are welcome! Thank you Stefan

Hi guys I'm currently working on a 1/72 Heller Boeing 707. I just wanted a big plane, so I had no particular airline in mind when I started it. Now I discovered the 26 decals set for an American Airlines 707. I assume I can make one from the Heller kit (engine types etc)? Now I was wondering about the livery. I'm considering using very thin adhesive aluminium foil for the bare metal look. But judging from the pictures the AA 707s were never really shiny/polished? Or is it just the old pictures? It looks like the wings and the wing/fuselage transition were painted in light grey + coroguard? See a picture below of my trial. Is it an overkill? Thank you and best regards from Switzerland. Stefan

Hi guys I'm currently working on a Revell/Zvezda 777 and a 747-8. Do you have any suggestions on how to paint the fanblades? They are overall black with a thin silver front edge. How would you paint the edge? Seems to be quite a challenge to get it right. Thank you and best regards Stefan

The decals from the Revell kit are very nice, particularly the metallic effect on the titles.

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Hi, thank you very much for your answer, will definitely be a good starting point for an own mixture. Stefan

Hello, I'm currently working on a Tu-154M in the green S7 (Sibir) paint scheme. Has somebody done that livery before and can advice on the colors? I'm limited to Revell colors but any info would be helpful. Thanks! Stefan

Some sprue shots from the Nuremberg Toy Fair http://www.primeportal.net/models/thomas_voigt9/revell/index.php?Page=3

D-ATUE and D-ATUC are in standard TUI c/s now, don't think Revell will ever issue kits with decals for the Deutsche Bahn liveries. Hope somebody they will make decals for the brand new Tropifrutti livery. http://worldairlinenews.com/2015/01/25/tuifly-to-introduce-a-new-haribo-logojet-named-haribo-tropifrutti/

Hi, I am about to complete the Amodel Tu-134 and now I'm looking for decals. What I found so far are the two Balkan Bulgarian sets from 26decals and the upscaled Tu-134 decals from F-DCAL (which are quite expensive). Does anybody know of some other sources for 1/72 Tu-134 decals? After all there were so many different liveries on this type of aircraft... Thanks! Stefan

Yes, I'm currently working on the kit. I really enjoy building it, the quality is far superior to the old Amodel kits. I can highly recommend the Neomega engine parts which are very useful and rather cheap to obtain from pas-models. The etched parts which are included in the kit don't appear too useful to me. Would be nice if extra tech or Eduard did a set.

Ordered the kit a while ago and the shop promised to restock. Now they told me the kit was currently unavailable from Revell which seems quite strange considering it was only released in September...

Aftermarket parts won't work as there aren't any for a Boeing 737-200 in this scale except complete resin engines... Any other suggestions?

Revell suggests 371 grey which doesn't look too bad to me. I have the feeling that the grey on the SK planes varies to some degree anyways. Stefan

Hi, I am currently working on the BPK 737-200. While cleaning up the intake of one engine I wasn't careful enough and destroyed the very fine etched blades (part 10). Does anybody has an idea how I could replace this etched part? I managed to take the engine apart. Unfortunately BPK did not reply to my question about spare parts. Thanks! Stefan

Hi, I'm currently completing a number of kits which involved some puttying and sanding and I was wondering what techniques and tools you guys can recommend to recreate the lost panel lines. I have been using the Tamiya scriber but I'm not really happy with the results and it is simply not usable in some areas (e.g. near the wing-fuselage transition) Thank you very much for your input! Stefan

Pas Models is reliable and cheap and the full range of Eastern Express its is available. Just takes a bit longer to get them from Russia. Stefan

Excellent news, especially since it got more difficult and expensive to obtain the kits from the last Revell Classic Line edition. Would love to see decals for the Norlandair DHC-6 which sports one of the best color schemes around on the Twotter (imo) http://www.airliners.net/photo/Norlandair/De-Havilland-Canada/1723847/L/&sid=defcf0b530e7bb539f6fc3db8f32fb20

I'm currently working on the kit. It's as nice as it seems but not that easy to build. Reminds me a lot of Amodel kits. Stefan

Hello, I was just wondering which color you guys use for the gear (struts, inner part of the doors, compartment etc.) Currently working on a Revell A330 and the colors in the instructions do not really match the pictures. Thanks! Stefan

The molds are completely new. Surprising they did an extra sprue for the small windows though. Quite pointless in my opinion, especially since most of their airline kits have no clear parts for the cabin windows at all. Could have used the money for the tooling to make a sprue with Winglets for the A32S kits or improved 737NG engines...

Hi, yes, there are decals for the LL available from BraZ. http://www.aviationmegastore.com/tupolev-tu144ll-charger-ra-77114-moskva-b4d12-braz-models-b4d12-airliner-decals/product/?shopid=LM4ed8d7be6582164eab055c8eaf&action=prodinfo&parent_id=0&art=104364 Stefan

Hello, unfortunately I haven't heard back from PMG Offramp. Does anybody else have a spare set of the yellow stripes from the Revell IL-86 decal? Thanks! Stefan