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Happy New Year all! I'm going to start the New Year with a brave and possibly vane work in progress of the Welsh Models vacform 1/144 McDonnell Douglas MD-11. My last attempt at a WIP ended in disaster and the kit being binned. And work often interferes in my modelling time so if you're really interested in what is likely to be long-haul I would advise subscribing! Excuses done, I thought it might be good to start with what a Welsh Models kit looks like. Because these are vacforms, the boxes are surprisingly large, yet quite thin: Inside there are two large vac-formed plastic sheets, one containing the fuselage, fuselage bulkheads (4), a wing spar, tail fin halves, centre engine intake liner, engine nacelles: The instructions state that these nacelles are for GE-powered MD11s and not for the PW-powered Delta variants and so are surplus. A separate smaller sheet provides dedicated nacelle and pylons for the PW engines (see later). I wasn't sure what the two small boxes were at the bottom middle, but I've just realised these are the nose and centre gear bays - the L1011 TriStar kit didn't include these so I was expecting to have to scratch build them. A second large sheet contains the wings, tailplanes and redundant GE engine pylons: Finally a smaller vacform sheet includes the Delta Airlines specific PW-powered engine nacelle and pylon halves: Nacelle leading edges, engine fans and exhaust core plugs are provided in resin: The undercarriage, winglets and flap track fairings are provided in white metal: There's a bit of mould seam to clean up, but past experience is that after priming any casting texture disappears. Instructions are sparse, yet provide all the relevant details: Decals are by Two Six Decals. They are laser printed and a little soft, but based on my MD-90 build respond well to Microscale Set and Sol, settling down well. Now for tedious part of vacforms, cutting out the parts and sanding down. Hopefully incremental progress tomorrow.... Regards, Darren- 42 replies
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Hi all, Just managed to get this one finished before Christmas. This is the 1/144 Minicraft Boeing 777-200, complete with nose shape issues and overly prominent panel lines. However, it builds up easily and to my eye, it looks like a Boeing 777. This was a Delta Airlines boxing, which comes with decals for Delta 'wavy gravy' or 'beach towel' livery. However, my decals looked marginal and so I used a scaleliner decals sheet for the earlier livery. I made this as N860DA, the first Boeing 777-200 delivered to Delta in 1999 and which retained this livery for just over a year. I replaced the engine fan/forward nacelles with the BraZ resin replacements. These are sadly significantly undersize so what should be a drop-in replacement turned into a mammoth filling and sanding job. They do look the part when painted up, but that looks takes a lot of time. Scaleliner decals are hard to find these days, a shame, as they are thin, tough, conform to curved surfaces well, and respond Microscale Set and Sol. The only downside is that colours are printed separately to avoid registration issues, so, for example, each door decal is made up of five decals, yes, eight doors equals 40 decals! Having said they were good to apply, the edges have wrinkled slightly after an acrylic clear varnish, somewhat unusual, but you have to be inches from the model to notice this. Oh, I opened a new tin of Xtracolour Boeing Grey for this build and it's massively lighter in shade than previous tins and is taking a week to dry fully, so I think this is a dodgy tin. On with the photos and Seasons Greetings to you all. Regards, Darren
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Greetings all, Finally got this off the shelf of doom after languishing for a couple of years. I had lost interest in finishing it as it wasn’t turning out as good as I hoped, however it doesn’t look too bad in the photos so now more pleased than I expected I would be. This is the first in what I naively aspire to be a build series of almost the entire Delta Airlines fleet. This is the 1/144 Welsh Models vacform Lockheed TriStar 385-200, originally with Saudia Airlines decals, for which I substituted the excellent TwoSix Decals Delta Airlines decals. In fact the kit was originally eBayed by Ray of Twosix Decals. As a vacform, everything seemed to take forever. The nose gear bay needs to be cut out and built from scratch, pleased I got aircraft level! Painted with Zero Paints white and Alclad Aluminium/Steel/Jet Exhaust. Varnished with Alclad Aqua Gloss. Darren
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Greetings folks, Another one saved from the shelf of doom, however, I still wonder if it was worth saving - does it look like an MD-90 to you? This is the Welsh Models conversion for the Minicraft MD-80 kit. The conversion includes a replacement vacform fuselage and a pair of resin engines. The fuselage nose is a poor representation of an MD-80/90 and so as recommended by N5016R, I chopped the nose off and used the Minicraft kit nose. For all that effort, I might as well have just extended the kit fuselage, sigh. Then the resin engines, err, look nothing like IAE V2500 engines, sigh. I used milliput and plastic strip to add some girth to the engines, to correct the engines as best as possible, but the fan diameter is still too small. I wasn't prepared to commit to the BraZ engines at this late stage, but in hindsight I could have used the spare V2500 engines from the Zvezda A320 kit. The Delta decals came with the Welsh Model conversion and are laser decals so a bit soft, however they responded excellently to Microscale Set and Sol, and with the use of a hairdryer (first time attempted) conformed perfectly around all the raised and recessed detail on the tail fin. I will definitely be using the hairdryer for complex decals in future. Paints are Zero Paints white, Xtracolour Boeing Grey and Alclad aluminium, all sealed with Alclad Aqua Gloss. On with photos. Darren
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