Alex1978

Great work on the old Revell kit.

🤔....brushpainted you say ?? Wow...fantastic result,looks absolutely fabulous.

Very neat build of the classic Douglas thunderbird. An extra 👍 for a livery very seldom seen.

I would be very careful with that. If you use decal softener such as Microscale Micro Sol or maybe a similar solvent,you may be able to stretch the decal slightly using a towel.But that depends also on the decal itself,its quality of paper and printing. I would try this with a spare piece first to see if it works before eventually ruin the main decal. Alex

You could do a copy of the tail decal on plain paper,then cut out the tail piece and put it on the tail of the model. This way you will see if and where and/or how much will be needed to be trimmed. Then use the copy as a template for the original decal. This works mostly very well for me,esp. also when complicated painting/ masking is needed. Alex

Great looking Jetstar Einar. In my opinion,its one of the smartest looking businessjets that were ever built. I have the same kit in my stash and,as you,found the box decals nice looking but impossible to apply. I bought Eastern Airlines decals for it instead. Thanks for sharing Alex

Thank you very much

Thank you very much for your nice comment. Glad this Airbus persuaded you to pick up modelling again😊

Great looking model. An odd looking plane but it has character,I like it. I built the Airfix 1/72 kit a while ago.I was surprised by its size... Thanks for sharing Alex

Superb DC-8 Ray. That livery always amazed me

Thank you very much. With time and patience it will come. I also never thought to achieve this standard.😊 And when I look and other builds on BM and other places and see those amazing results,it gives me the drive to try and make each new model better than the previous. Thank you very much

Thank you very much John. Just in case you are building the A330 in Thai livery. Revell's measurements on the instructions are well meant but useless.The purple stripe over the windows will come out completely wrong if followed by plan. Use a decal copy instead to draw the lines for painting,so everything will allign

Thank you very much John.

Thank you very much Dave. The AA detail set is indeed superb and those 3D decals always impress me.

Thank you very much Dave. Yes,in the beginning Edelweiss started with MD-80s,later came A320s. Today its fleet consists of 13 A320s and 4 A340s due to the pandemic. Before it had also A330s in its fleet but they changed to Eurowings. Edelweiss still holds on to the A340s because they offer a better payload/range compared to the A330s as they say, and are better suited for their long range network.

Another one from my production line. Revell's 2013 re-release of their vintage 1993 A330 kit. It sat in my stash for the past 10 years before I finally got around building it. Qualitywise,its the same as the A340. Everything fits quite well and detail is nicely done. The highlight of this boxing is clearly the decal sheet,courtesy of NAZCA. There are countless detail markings that cover probably every detail of the original. The most tricky part to do was the masking/painting of the purple parts. The tail has to be painted as for the stripe,the violet part is on the decal. But matching the colors is very difficult,so I decided to paint on all purple parts. Revell gives a helping hand on the instruction sheet,although there are some serious errors in their measurements for the windowstripe. In the end I made a copy of the decal stripe and used it as a template. The purple paint is from Gunze Aqueous H39. It was the closest match I could find. Depending on the pictures on the net,the purple looks different from pic to pic.Some show a very faded out purple,others even a bit metallic. The rest is Gunze white primer for the white parts,Testors aircraft grey mixed with white for the wings and Revell 374 mixed with Revell aluminium 99. On a forum I once read that Revell has the wrong engines for the Thai version. Thai uses RollsRoyce engines on their A330s. I got a set of BRAZ RR engines,that were included on another A330 kit,that I got 2nd hand. Research on the net later showed unfortunately the opposite... Thais earlier batch of A330s from 1994 to 97 had PW engines as depicted in the Revell boxing. As Thai Airways has named all of tjeir aircrafts,I had to "cheat"a bit... The superb Authentic Airliners detail set came to the rescue. There are "open" door decals included. So I used them on both sides.As the doors swing open outside/forward,they hide the name on both sides,which saved me a lot of trouble.😊 Cheers

It has been quite a while sice I posted something. I had a busy time,and also the weather here was not the best to make pictures on the balcony. Modelling was very busy though and a lot of airliners got finished since last summer.Some had been pre-started and finally finished,others were built from scratch. So,here are the first of a larger batch of kits that I will post in the comming days. I had the rather crazy idea of building my 8 A330/A340 kits ,I had in my stash for some years,more or less simultaneously. Had I known what a task that would be beforehand,I would not have gotten me into this mega-project.🤪 For my A340s I decided to correct the inner engines as good as possible. Revell's A340 was first released in early 1991 and has a few accuracy issues as it seems based on earlier drawings. The most obvious are the engines.They miss the little fences and the inner engines hang low due to the too high engine mounts. The outer engines look fine though and compared with the real thing,the inner engines should be at the same hight as the outer ones. To correct this as good as possible,I cut off the mounts from the nacelles and shortened them about 1mm.Then I reattached them on the nacelles using liquid plasic and a bit of superglue. The inlet rings on all engines were recreated with pieces of plasticard ,to avoid a seam. The rest of the build was by the book. The kit is very nicely detailed,esp. the landing gear,which makes it a bit fiddly to install though. Paints used are Gunze white primer for the white parts,Revell red 31 ,Testors aircraft grey mixed with white for all the grey areas and Revell grey 374 mixed with a few drops Revell aluminium 99 for the inspar panels. The decals for the Edelweiss livery come from DRAW decal and are of great quality with a very thin carrierfilm.Application requires some attention. I chose HB-JMD because that was the Airbus I flew on in 2018 from Zurich to Ho Chi Minh City on my way to Manila. It was a very comfortable flight with a great service. Edelweiss is the charter subsidiary of Swiss and has 5 A340s in service,all former Swiss aircrafts. The A340 was delivered factory new in December 2003 and changed to Edelweiss in September 2018. I actually wanted to photograph the A340 on my regular "apron" but I must have misplaced it😳 now a piece of runway has to do for the moment... Cheers

I completely missed your A350 post back then...😊 Superb build and very nice choice of airline. I flew in november 2019 with one of Cathay's A350-1000 fron Zurich to Hongkong. I very pleasant flight that was.In fact I was so impressed,that I built the A350-1000 in CX livery as part of my "Aircraft I flew on" project. Thanks for sharing Alex

Very nice. Given the tiny scale and age of that kit,you created a very fine looking Caravelle. Thanks for sharing Alex

Superb Caravelles John. The kit may be old,but still very much worth building as you have proven. Thanks for sharing Alex

Very neat build. It suits the Qantas livery. Although not the biggest fan of the A380 (and A350) myself,I was crazy enough to get me the Heller kit in 1/125. Thats a very huge kit...😊 Thanks for sharing Alex

Superb pair of 767s Matt. They look splendid in that livery. I have the Chelsea Rose boxing in the stash as well,just dont know when I get around building it. There are too many projects on the workbench currently😊🤪 And quite a few await the photoshoot for posting but the weather is aweful since weeks...⛈️ Thanks for sharing Alex

2 great looking 777s Superb builds👍

Hi Dave, Very neat Dreamliner in a simple yet elegant livery that really suits this airliner. 👍 Alex

Great build and a very attractive livery. I always liked the IL76 and you did a great job on that model. Alex