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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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.

     

     

    170-EF34-E-D534-424-B-BB9-F-DFC03555-EB8

     

    AA397725-930-D-46-DB-A4-A1-DC2-DD18286-D

     

    3-EA51975-B457-43-BC-A2-E9-F73-A408-EEB9

     

    522591-D4-FF40-4011-9-A73-DA5-B0-AC28312

     

    8323-B5-C0-66-F8-42-ED-97-CC-F010-F18-BB

     

    33-B8-D6-AB-EC0-F-432-D-B74-A-0-B746895-

     

    Flying over PIA A320.

    B8-F7-A058-B1-E8-4904-A22-C-2-E56487292-

     

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