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Well, my stack is now full with the "related" aircraft, meaning also seen in Manchester, 1989, for a diorama Minicraft owful 757-200 is in build, to come with the basic Air-2000 decals from AHS and detail decals stolen from a BrazilDecals AirUzbekistan sheet (this one), Revell BA Concorde SuperDecal edition to follow, and Minicraft DC-8-63 will probably get the self-designed decals (and either selfprinted on a laser, or printed on order) to represent a TransOcean Airways machine (or some other -62 or -63 seen in Manchester in that year).

Thanks! I forgot to add, that this one flew the Moscow-Manchester Route in 1989, so now planning for some aircraft which were also seen in Manchester in 1989 757-200 from Air2000 is the next to come, then the BA Concorde. After it a resin Tu-134 for the Moscow end

Final assembly (I need to shoot some better photos outside when the rain will be over): Note the damaged decals on the port side... ;( Painting - Gunze Mr.Surfacer for white (with an odd bit of humbrol white when retouching defects..), Modelmaster 1730E Flat gull gray for the gray, different Gunze metallizers over tamiya black for the metal parts, gunze flat black for the tyres, modelmaster french blue gloss 2715 for repairs on the blue color when it "ran" after the setting solution. Sealed by the 2 layers of spray can gloss clear, from Dupli-color.

Have you guys seen, that the Boeing website features 3 view CAD-drawings (.DXF and .DWG formats) for all their aircraft there for free? http://boeing.com/commercial/airports/3_view.html

Well, now I know it I have not known it before...

The only thing you better do - do not use setting solution on the decals. These go wonderfully in recesses even without it, and the setter attacked the decal colors in my case..

Hello I just ordered some 1/144 russian airliner kits from Russia. The subjects are great, but I have never seen these kits in the west for sale or reviewed, so it is a "cat in the bag" buy from me.. One is resin, rest in injection plastic.. I am searching for experiences, etc with these kits, if someone has them... RusAir Tupolev Tu-134 Aeroflot Legends (resin) Eastern Express Il-96-400T Atlant-Soyuz Cargo Eastern Express Tupolev Tu-334

ATTENTION! The decal colors run when reacting with the decal setting solution!! I just started putting the decals onto the model, and after applying the port-side window strips I put some Mr.Mark Softer upon them. Well, I better would not, or more careful at least! The blue color of the decals was dissolved, and some drops of the light blue colored softer ran onto the white fuselage leaving some marks. Also some blue "traces" on the white parts of the decal formed... Not too critical but some retouching would be needed...

Looks great! And it has a decal option for the 3rd GvIAP KBF in the box! The regiment I am collecting!

A very nice baby Boeing!

Any chance to get this painting scheme as a decal sheet soon? I have a Minicraft DC-8-63 (with cutting to -62 as an option) waiting to be built soon

Thanks, helps me alot!

Hello How is the quality of the Airfix's BAC 1-11 and Trident kits? I cant locate any review, sprue shot or similar online..

The 757-200 is available from Minicraft with both RR and PW engine versions, its the one Im going to tackle after the Tu-154M (as an air 2000 machine in the late 1989, to make a dio with the Tupolev sitting in Manchester. Using AHS Air 2000 and the Brazil Decals Air Uzbekistan (for the better doors, windows, etc..)). It is reputed as not the most accurate or very well fitting kit, but I could say it next week only A 320 is available from Revell and its a nice kit to build. Now it is listed for reissue soon with Lufthansa decals.

I have fetched a Brazil Decals sheet today which features a Britannia scheme for a 757-200. Somehow that scheme made it to a decal sheet dedicated to Air Uzbekistan's 757 and 767s! Quality looks to be quite good!

As the photo of the original one shows it in Manchester, I have picked up a Minicraft Boeing 757-200 and AHS decals Air 2000... also based at Manchester at the same time.. looks like an airport diorama for me!

Hehe, well, its usually better in my case - i cleanup table completely after each project... but here i paused a project in an advanced phase to do this build

Oh well, I thought it'd be brutal to make you wait, guys Here is the original http://www.airliners.net/photo/Aeroflot/Tu...next_id=1309871 Here is my current progress - waiting for sanding. Wings, engines, etc are only stuck in. Large Version Large photo of engravings: Large photo of engravings Top view

Hello I was thinking about some more 1/144 subjects for me, and especially my most loved airliner - Il-62/Il-62M.. As I see, the only kit now available is the 1/144 resin one from Bra.Z. models... Does anyone ever build kits of this manufacturer?

I will take photos before resuming the work on friday or saturday.... now I cant take photos as the liquid putty is drying, and tomorrow i have a beer garden meeting in the evening, so coming home around midnight...

Well, Im sorry here... I did not take the sprue photos before rushing to build it... However, I am toying an idea to get a second (today he had 2 such kits on the shelf) one from my dealer tomorrow (with 13 euro only as price its easy)... But generally you get: 3 sprues in gray plastic: one holding the fuselage, one - wing upper parts and wheels, one - wing lower parts, engines and the T-tail. 1 sprue in hard transparent plastic.- holding the "airfix-style" inflight stand. 1 sprue with softer, rather flexible, non-fragile transparent plastic, with the window inserts, cockpit glazing, landing lights and some optional windows for the "space" version. one sheet of instructions and one large decal sheet

I went on building this one directly after my post, and the fit is good to very good. I have painted the fuselage halves exterior white and attached the window transparencies from inside (this way i just mask the strip with windows and spray the top seam, instead of individual masking). Windows fit tight but very good. I also assemled the middle engine air intake and the nozzle, as well as the front wheel bay. Also very good fit. Being cautious, I added 50 grams of lead in the nose (using old tyre balance weights) instead of 20 listed in the assembly. After that I closed the fuselage. The fit is quite good, but I needed to chop off all the locating pins to achieve it. You still would need some filler around it. I also assembled the wings and dry-attached them to the fuselage. Fit is fantastic, tight and filler-less, except that you need to sand some 0.3 mm off the front edge of one wing at the root. The T-stabilizer also fits very good, with hair-thin lines. Such a filler-less fit allows you to paint the metallic wings and tail, and white-gray fuselage separately, and then just add them together. Side engines also went together very well, with no visible seams after a few polishing stick sweeps. In fact, its virtually ready for painting job!

Hello I just fetched the brand new Zvezda's 1/144 Tupolev Tu-154M kit, and I am impressed! Looks like the best detailed Airliner kit I ever build or have in my stash (well, a few I built). The only drawback - the parts (except the clear ones) are loose in the box, and the decals too! I cant find any moulding defects, and the level of detail is just great, with very fine engraved lines. The decals look ok. It has three paint schemes included: 1) RA-85665, belonging to the soviet aerospace training center 2) RA-85760, Aeroflot (Modern), with a nice silver/blue/red livery 3) CCCP-85663, Aeroflot (USSR), in a classic color scheme, and exactly the same aircraft which I "flew" as a kid! (In 1989 (or 1990, not sure) when I was 8 or 9 years old my parents flew from Leningrad to the Crimean peninsula with me for summer vacation, and we sat in the very first row in the plane (all-touristic). In the middle of the flight a flight attendant girl invited a "nice kid" to visit the cockpit, and the pilot let me seat at his lap and hold the controls for some 10 minutes. My parents have a black-and-white photo of us near that aircraft, and it is exactly the 85663!). The scheme I am going to build, needless to say I am going to push this build directly on the table, pausing the Fiat C.R.42 build now on the table. I just had a large wish to build an airliner, so I fetched three today (Tu-154M, and 2 revell ones, Super Constellation L1049G and a Bombardier Challenger CL604)

Would be an instant order for me.. I love Beauforts

Looks good! However, I never understood the people using a kit which needs rescribing when there is a very fine alternative with recessed lines and fantastic fit on the market, for me it seems masochistic