Zulu Hotel Alpha
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Looks great-Brings back memories of building the AIrfix A300 in the early 1980s.
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lovely build- looking forward to the VC-10.
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love it- so much detail!
i wonder when they will be retired.
love it- so much detail!
i wonder when they will be retired.
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Thanks for sharing this lovely build.
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looks elegant.. thanks for sharing
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A very smart looking build- thanks for sharing.
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good effort. So, now you have an unstarted A320 without a winglet!
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Looks stunning!
This brings back memories - i built a Lufthansa Airfix A300 in the early 1980s. One of my first builds.
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Really nice! Brings back memories.
As a young teenagaer I made a BA version (Airfix) back in the 1980s- it vanished many years ago.
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Beautiful, neat work- thanks for sharing
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Both are attractive, lovely builds- thanks for sharing.
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wow! nice one- (tbh-I prefer this Condor colour scheme to the Icelandair - i mean the colour scheme chosen by the Icelandair makes it look more like a low cost airline. I guess it operates like one).
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Great build! thanks for sharing.
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Lovely builds, thanks for sharing.
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Amazing looking aircraft, fantastic work and what a nice colourful livery. A job well done!!!
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This looks beautiful.. bravo!
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Lovely work, always a joy to view it here.
- I have had the pleasure of flying DC-10 a number of times- Pakistan International, SAS and Lufthansa (even visited the cockpit - and photo asa bonus).
I think the BA DC-10 used to belong to British Caledonian.- perhaps I am wrong.
So now you have an extra model.. what are you going to do with it?
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15 minutes ago, Samuraiwarrior said:
Hi,
A really nice model.
Despite all the problems you encountered, you still have a model to be proud of.
As to brush painting an airliner, well takes it to another level. Well done.
Thanks for sharing,
Kevin
Very kind of you- Thanks
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20 hours ago, mitchem said:
Well done for rescuing it and doing a great job in the process! 👍👍
Nothing wrong with wheels up.
mike
You are correct regarding wheel being up. However, the the whole landing gear mechanism looked so cool, that once gone , it left me with an unsatisfied feeling while building it. However, kinds words here do help:)
20 hours ago, busnproplinerfan said:The model gods sure picked on you. Looks like to beat them down. I usually use steel shot balls or cut up wheel weights for the nose, I also superglue it in. My work just throws lead wheel weights in the garbage, so I figure I'm saving the odd piece.
Thanks. I think i added a little too much glue that either directly caused the plastic to warp or caused the battery covering to melt/ react with the plastic. Anyway , one learns in the process and from good advice.
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2 hours ago, Vesa Jussila said:
Looks really impressive. Worth of all efforts.
Thanks:)
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15 hours ago, MBM said:
I feel you there with the accidents, I had several involving resin aftermarket wingtips (horrible quality) on two 1/144 Zvezda 767's!
A really really nice build though despite everything that happened and as said above it is a lovely job with the brush painting you I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't said so!
Cheers,
Mark
Thanks... I attempt to adequately dilute the acrylic paint with water before applying.
16 hours ago, Skodadriver said:Very nice despite the misadventures.
If it's any help I always use blu-tack to secure the nose weight. In 25 years of building airliners it's never caused me a problem.
Dave G
Thank you for your kind words. I will keep keep that in mind for the next attempt. I was afraid that bu-tak might detach after drying up.
17 hours ago, tMikha said:Despite all the troubles you had to overcome, the result looks pretty nice.
And the surface is really fantastic for brush-painted model.Congratulations!
Cheers! painting was the result of diluting appropriately and adequately with water and then applying a few layers.
You guys produce beautiful models and get excellent results,. I wish i could only get half as good.
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KLM 737-800 PH-BCA (Flamingo) Zvezda 1:144 scale model. Decals from Zvezda's original (UTair) + 26decal for KLM livery.
I write with some trepidation as this was not the happiest of journeys for me. A kit was good but things didn't pan out as they were supposed to.
This model was completed in over 6 months due to a number of complications, including time constraints as well as a crash ( the model fell from its storage cupboard) and broke a winglet and lost- broken into 3 pieces) its beautiful front undercarriage struts. I was distraught. Attempt to reconstruct failed the structure and I had to continue it in wheels up/ retracted position.
Additionally, another disaster that I could not do much about as the warping due to adhesive. I had glued in a small battery in the inside (as a counterweight) which became unstuck after the crash. I had to saw off the cockpit section to re-glue the battery. I must have been overzealous with the glue (Revell Contacta) as over the next couple of days i observed a warped front fuselage (did not experience with my earlier two Revell models).
The model is brush painted with Revell Aqua Colours (acrylic). For the fuselage, Light Blue 50 (closest match i could find in acrylic) and Light Grey Silk 371 (which seemed to me to be a closer match for the fuselage belly instead of white). I wanted to do some weathering but fear of another disaster took over, and I decided that this project needs to end some where!
Decals were quite delicate at times for me (this is my third model) but managed not to destroy (most of) them. A little annoying issue for me was that for both the original Zvezda decals and 26Decals there were some stickers that were numbers on the decal sheet but I could not find on the diagram provided.
Flying over PIA A320.
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JetBlue Airbus A321neo - 1/144 Zvezda
in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
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Looks fantastic, and Jetblue should name this aircraft 'Viking's Daughter'.
Love the colours and the decals with all the details- the model cockpit crew gives a fun element to the build- as long as they are not fighting each other?