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My first batch for 2025. The airliner models from Hasegawa are always a treat to build.Easy going together,nicely detailed for 1/200 and in most cases very accurate. The DC-10 was among their first range of airliner releases and came out around 1980. Its for its age quite detailed and catches the shape of the real thing well. Built OOB with decals from Liveries Unlimited. The modern follow up to the DC-10 , the MD-11 was first released by Hasegawa in 1995. It has fine recessed panel lines and was,at its time of release,the only MD-11 kit available. It was released with several liveries through the years but sadly was never reissued since around 2002. Thankfully I have built up quite a stock of those. Built OOB as well and using the kits decals. It allows the build of all 13 MD-11s Swissair had in its fleet in 1995. I opted for HB-IWN ,which joined the fleet as the last factory fresh MD-11 for Swissair ,and it was christened "Basel-Landschaft" in late august 1994 at our local airport,where I photographed her as a youngster. The A320NEO is a newer release from Hasegawa,around 2017. The colourful livery of japanese airline PEACH immediately cought my attention and I bought it right away. Its a very detailed kit for its tiny size. The whole livery is done with decals,which are nicely printed and the fit of them is good. There is also instructions for mixing the different colors,which work surprisingly well. I had to paint the engine nacelles,as the decal for them are not usable to good result. These kits will go to the Philippines next month with me as a gift for my girlfriend,who requested some models built by me 😊 I hope they will survive the trip... Cheers Alex I will also take this chance to let all those who followed me on BM for the past 10 years and enjoyed my pictures where my cats participated in as well sometimes,to inform you,that my beloved lady cat "Dukdik" went to the rainbow,she sadly passed away unexpectedly on january 16 ,2025 at the age of 15. She's greatly missed. Almost 3 years ago,my buddy "Sakura" passed away as well,aged 12. They are reunited again. As a last tribute some pics of them for those who enjoyed them on my postings. Dukdik Sakura

9 or so months ago I started my first ever model build, this Zvezda A320NEO. It was supposed to be an easyJet aircraft (I started a build thread but it tapered off, will do better next time) but I wasn’t happy with the livery as I applied it so I left it on the bench for some months as I just wasn’t happy building something that wasn’t as good as it could be. Life then got in the way but recently I had some spare time so I decided to switch tact hoping to build my skills and come back to the easyJet livery. I decided to complete it in ITA Airways livery as it’s a lovely shade of blue and wow, it was worth the change! Only change from an easyJet aircraft is the engines are PW1100G instead of CFM LEAP. I’ve learned so much during the build about how I would improve it and it’s an OOB build with only photo realistic windows from Authenic Airliners as a modification. I would love to hear your thoughts, I know there are some areas the camera pics up that I could improve on (and the antenna should be white but I’ve been burned with paint reactions throughout the build so they can stay blue for now!) but overall, for a first go, I’m very happy.

This is my first build of the new Revell A320NEO kit. To my surprise,the A320NEO is not in the same league qualitywise as their A321NEO kit. The fitting is not as good and the kit already showed some flash and excess plastic. The decals for the colourful Air Seychelles livery are from PAS decals and are of great quality. All other decals are from the kit. The fuselage was painted with Gunze white primer 1500,the rest are Testors,Revell and Gunze paints. One of my next NEOs will be a Zvezda kit,hopefully a better quality than the Revell offering. Thanks for looking Alex