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Douglas DC-7C, JA6301, 'City of San Francisco', operated on the intercontinental routes in the late 1950s by Japan Air Lines. This is the Roden kit in 1/144, built oob. It has lovely box art, and the fit was reasonable in most places. Just remember to use lots of nose weight! The decals take ages to soak and were prone to cracking, but not so bad that I couldn't slide together. I used spray cans for the two main colours and Humbrol 40 for the landing gear and wheel wells. I ran out of e-z line so only one wire done so far! Light weathering with Flory dark dirt wash.
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Don't get your hopes up... this is more of a marker than anything as I'm pressing on with my Vignette GB first, http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235004500-railcar/ This though is my submission Plan is it to be a relaxing time straight OOB (my comfort envelope is being seriously expanded with my vignette build. Theory then is that this is pretty much all I need... I know slightly zero about the DC-7 (and that's rounding up) but fancied something to go with this little twinkle in my eye... http://www.noorderlicht.net/projecten/schiphol-1928/ jump to image 7 for a card model to download! First impressions are that there is a good lump of flash to clean up, I'm hoping that's the problem and it looks like it, else a warped fuselage awaits. Also the engraved panel lines look very deep unless they are distinctive on the original? From other comments on Britmodeller Roden decals are not the most enjoyable experience to be had so there may be a livery change. Thanks for stopping in but don't expect much to happen for a month or so. Also the many very proficient modellers on the site might want to look away now... I'm not a good modeller but I enjoy it and it relaxes me; I can get all the angst I need in my day-job!
