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  1. Welcome to my first lockdown build, which I started aroud two weeks ago (when the Czech quarantine started). The Revell kit, which I bougth second hand, is a reboxed Matchbox and is really advanced like the many other Matchbox kits from it's time. I started to like this machine because of its curves and design. Although it's a German construction, which is very rare in my stash, I started this build with great enthusiasm and a vision of a fast build kit with only minor improvements and scratchbuilding. The cockpit came first and I decided to put the pilots into their office for the first time in my 14-year modelling career - and I am happy about that! Then all the progress went in a really fast pace, including riveting, detailing the exterior (reinforcement stripes, a new window, engine air intakes, exhausts and much more...). Few changes from the military to the civil aircraft had to be done such as extra window next to the cockpit, filling the turrets holes, different engines and the airscrews too. To be honest, the pace was fast enough to skip the photo sessions and also starting a new thread here. But now there is the painting starting piont - Surfacer primer aibrushed and waiting for colours... ... And the chosen one is this marking: Luft Hansa's Dornier Do-18E D-ABYM "AEOLUS" - In April 1937, D-ABYM Aeolus started service on the South Atlantic mail route from Bathurst, now Banjul, Gambia to Natal, Brazil (3040 km). Catapult ships were based in Bathurst and Fernando de Noronha to allow the aircraft to cross the Atlantic carrying a full load of mail. Aeolus was lost on 30 July 1937, when it had to make an ocean landing due to engine problems and was heavily damaged when Ostmark tried to retrieve the plane. So here is the current state. Readied for the painting. And I almost forgot to write that the decals and my friend Pavel will prepare the decals and masks again! And a few close ups: Hope you'll like it. Thanks for reading! Andrew S.
  2. Lufthansa Airbus A310 1:144 Revell with AA and 26Decals The A310 was a shortened version of the A300 Airbus, using the same fuselage sections, but with a new, smaller wing. Lufthansa used them from 1983 to 2005, A few are still flying, mainly as cargo haulers. This is the venerable old Revell kit of the A310, with a replacement resin nose from Braz to correct the kit part. It is a simple bit of work, and makes a huge difference to to the finished model. I also scraped and reduced the over prominent reinforcement bulge at the base of the fin, and blended it in a bit of Milliput to improve the look. Decals are silk screen printed from 26Decals and performed superbly. The cockpit and passenger windows are Authentic Airliners photo realistic decals, There is a new kit from Eastern Express, but it is pricey at over £60, so the Revell kit is still worth building if you have one in your stash. But it really does benefit from the Braz nose. Mine was kindly donated by the ever helpful Mr Stringbag, so thanks again Chris! With something else. Lets call this Frankfurt 1986! Thanks for looking, John
  3. Hi guys, I would like to share my straight build of Revell A320 kit. This one is an older kit without the sharklet wingtips. I must confess this was my first attempt at building a passenger airplane and I wanted to focus on building the kit AS-IS without adding after market parts/decals. I did build the same kit at a later time and gave Swiss livery, but Lufthansa is the one I like better. I thoroughly enjoyed building this one as there is something about dealing with public transportation for me. As I was building this kit, I think there were multiple decisions I had to make. I am sure you guys building the passenger airplanes probably went through the same. Honestly, there are no right or wrong approach for these, I think it all comes down to one's personal choice and preference. For one, I contemplated whether I wanted to use clear parts for windows or not. I see most of us simply putty the window openings and use decals. Some skill is definitely required if decals are not utilized since most likely you will need to mask and paint carefully prior to putting together the fuselage halves. I took an easy way out (I must confess that putty work is also messy and boring), I blocked all of the windows and applied decals over. I used the decals supplied from the kit. Secondly, I stumbled for some time on how I wanted to handle the panel lines. For this build, I ended up scribbing lines and washing them. I did not want the lines to be quite pronounced, so I only left faint panel lines. I see other builders not washing the panel lines at all knowing that it is hardly noticeable on the real planes. Lastly, I see some builders complete the plane with semi-gloss finish, but I wanted my build to have some "scale model" look (I meant this in a good way), I gave multiple gloss coats hoping to bring out some shine... I will definitely try different approach for my next build though, perhaps this is the learning process.
  4. Hello there! Today I've uploaded one more of my B-737's park 😀 Model from Eastern Express well-known for it's poor quality. But it's the only way to built 737-100. First, I used half a kilo of Tamiya Putty and one meter of sanding paper to get normal surface and to fill all the junction points 😃 After Zvezda kits that was really complicated work but interesting as well. I've built 737-MAX8 (presented on this resource a few days before) and decided to make "grandfather" for it. 737-100 looks really interesting and a few funny when compared with NG or MAX. It's so short, and seems "fat" but with the same nose part. Old-school livery is amazing with shine of aluminium on the fuselage. I don't understand, why such liveries with shine naked aluminium are not used by carriers today. First commercial flights of 737-100 were performed in Lufthansa in 1969. So, it's 53 years history and 4 generations of 737 till today. Model packed in pretty box with interesting box-art of 737-100 with steps and flight crew getting out from plane to crew bus. Inside the box there is only one pocket with dark grey plastic, looks sad... Also scheme of assembly and decal-sheet for LH included. As i've said, the most difficult part was to sand all the joints. Also it was a big task to assembly pilot's windows. There are only one piece of bad-looking plastic in the kit. Also, there is no windows for passengers in the kit. Really I always try to make gloss windows as it possible, and much less I like decals for windows. But this time I had no skill and enthusiasm to drill the windows. For cockpit I used masks from KAV-models. ZIP-maket primer and Mr. Hobby H-1 for white colour. And here I must to say few words about livery. I do not pretend to be one 100 % historical compliance with the prototype. Firstly, apparently different planes and in different periods of time were painted differently. The border of gray and metallic on the bottom is located differently on different sides and in different photos. I took as a basis a certain averaged version of livery. Silver is Tamiya X-11 "chrome silver". Grey colour mixed from Mr.Hobby H-1 and some dark-grey Tamiya. The decal is high quality enough, easy to apply. But the other side that it's very poor, with no technical inscriptions at all. So I've used the rest decals from previous 737 and also realistic windows instead of included in kit. The silver edging of the windshield was made by myself from scraps. It was another one not easy job. In the end I added ligts in the wing-edges and beacons on fuselage. Also I redesigned the hubcaps of the outer wheels of the main landing gear - what the EE gives in the set looks really toylike. Pledge Future as first lacquer layer prior decals and after as well. Mechanization of wing and engines got a little dirty with oil-paints. Final lacquer is mix from Future and about 5% of Tamiya X-21 flat base. Summing up - it's not the best of my models, but taking int account quality of EE-kit, I was satisfied with the result. Respects, tMikha.
  5. For my 3rd project I had in my queue an Airfix DC-10, that I've bought for 15€. I went to check his information on scalemates and I've saw the version I've bought was from 2002 plus the skill level was 2, so I wasn't expecting that much from the kit itself, but I got surprised. For 19 years old the kit looks very good, with nice outlines and shapes in general. In theory I only have 10 stapes to make, but we all know how the process in general can be long. While my other 2 747's were drying I've decided to start in baby steps this kit. So yesterday I sanded the windows already and also painted some parts of the engine 2. I isolated the windows as much as I could with tape, to save the lines that I will use as reference for the painting process later on, and I must say I've nailed it. Despite having a little of putty between the windows, I've passed my finger through them and I didn't noticed any kind of changes in the surface so I left it in that way and the primer will tell me if I did something wrong or not. This kit brought 2 decal sheets for SAS and American Airlines. Despite I like both airlines very much I decided to make this one with the Lufthansa retro colors (I was thinking in the beginning to make with the Swissair chocolate livery but in the end I was loyal to the German crane.) Once more I've order the decals from 26Decals, and I'm sure they will fit quite well in this model. This Lufthansa livery has some complicated curves in the belly in fact as it isn't fully silver with some light grey also on the wings section. I will continue this project with calm and time
  6. Hello, I am back after a long pause. Long story short, moved for uni and now I have finally my own space. So my first build gonna be a Boeing 747. Pictures gonna be up tommorw, I've already sanded the fuselage and I am looking for my primer to arrive. So yea, I am glad to be back
  7. My quarantine build is finally finished. The last step was also the longest - small details like antennas and rigging. But it's done and AEOLUS goes straight on the display. This build was really fun. I would like to thank to my friend Pavel for those decals and masks, again. I hope you'll li the result, . . . I do. I am thinking what my next projet will be... That's very satisfying feeling. And a few details: Cheers, Andrew S.
  8. Boeing 737-130 Lufthansa. Airfix kit modified. My first entry will be the 737-130 in its Lufthansa delivery scheme. My understanding is that although delivered like this, the tailfin was repainted in the then new scheme of overall blue, with the yellow Lufthansa 'roundel' before it was put into service. The fuselage will need shortening, and the engines will require a fair bit of rework. The very early 731's had engine pods developed from the 727 nacelles and were much shorter than the later ones. I'm still looking for some good drawings of them if anyone can help! I'll also be cutting away the cockpit roof and replacing it with the excellent clear part from a Daco/Skyline 737, as it massively improves the look of the Airfix kit. Here's where we start; Nice laser decals from Nick Webb at http://www.classic-airlines.com/ Note the short engine nacelles with the 727 style 'bump' on the rear underside for the thrust reversing mechanism; Should be fun, and will complete my collection of 737s from the -100 to -900. John
  9. Hi folks,well I,ve been tempted to the dark side! having seen and been highly impressed for a while now by the superb civil aircraft posted here and being a little jaded by the site of green and brown paint on my ongoing Hurricane builds I thought I would have a go at something a bit more colourful.So here goes.this is Revells Lufthansa liveried A320 which features nice engraved panel lines and a superb decal sheet a million miles from the last airliner I built way back in the seventies which I think was an Airfix Boeing 727.heres the box top,and I,ll make a start next day off,now where,s the gloss paint..........
  10. I flew on the real aircraft back in 1994 and the Lufthansa crew really looked after us. I always wanted to do this one and bought the Italeri 1/72 kit as it came with the right markings and didn't have the hole for the upper fuselage gunner's position to fill and sort out the corrugations for! The kit goes together nicely and my intention was to leave the rear door open so I tacked it in place with a bit of PVA whilst painting and then found I couldn't get it open again..... I didn't want to damage the corrugations so have left it closed. Had to change the propellers for three-bladed ones, thanks to John Adams at Aeroclub for sorting those out for me, extend the centre engine cowling, modify all the exhausts and alter the layout of some windows to represent the Lufthansa aircraft. Painted with Halfords Nissan Silver and gloss black with a matt varnish over the silver to tone it down. No weathering as the real aircraft was spotless. Anyway here it is, comments/criticisms welcome. Steve
  11. Hi Gentlemen, My question is simple if I want to make a Lufthansa 737-100, which kit is better starting point Revell or Airfix? If I'm correct Airfix is mostly series 200. Revell is modern 800-series. My understanding is that Airfix will require correct fuselage length to be right for 100. Is there any ideas about engines? What are changes if modification is done to Revell kit? Fuselage lenght and engines what else? Br. Vesa
  12. Hi, So I was asking questions about Boeing 737-100 in other topic(http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234933832-revell-or-airfix-737/). And now it's time to start WIP thread. Target is to do proper model of one of these: Basically there is two ways to do this. First is simpler and then only Airfix kit is needed basically then modification is shorten fuselage two windows front and behind wing. Then there is need to change rear cabin door to larger one. Basic understanding is that Airfix fuselage is not exactly right, but this way is possible get decent model. Second way is using Revell's fuselage and shorten that to correct length and rudder wings, engines, landing gear from Airfix kit and this is my way. More pictures will come during weekend. Br. Vesa
  13. Hello Everyone This is my Airfix 727-200. It was built straight from the box. The decals are a mix of 737-800 and A320 decals, i didnt have any actual Lufthansa 727 decals...... As you can see it is in the present scheme. It was the only 727 to were this livery. The tail is alot darker as well. Im using my phone and it has a very bright flash... I hope you Like it. Thanks Bradley
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