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Hi all! Now it’s been many years since I’ve modelled, I’m talking 10+ years when my grandmother was still alive, she’d often take me to model shops or I’d spend my time building old kits from her loft that my grandfather never build. As I became a teenager I stoped making models, and when my grandmother died I thought I’d never build them again. Fast forward to now, my other half gets me a 1/72 spitfire from hobbycraft and I’m back hooked. After a late night eBay mission memories came back and I find my self bidding on every old 1/144 airliner that I ever found in my grandmothers loft and built as a kid. Back story over. Now I’m older I find I’m a lot more OCD than I was as a kid, this old 727 kit from 1982 probably wasn’t the best choice to start with. A lot of filler needed and this is a new technique to building to me. First of the tail. I removed the harsh line where the engine sits, every reference picture I find seem to not have this, and most posts I read on here mention it. I filled all the windows, panel gaps I could and filed forever. This is my first experience of ever doing this as I built models as a kit they were thrown together, often never painted or painted poorly. After reading a lot on here I decided to try the decal options for the windows and doors. excuse the poor job. As I say this is the first airliner kit I’ve properly built since being a kid. Im note sure what livery to go with, I'm tempted by a BA Delftblue daybreak, as my plan is to build a lot of the old BA/BEA fleets. or an old Air Canada scheme I remember seeing once at Southend airport as a kid. I’ve seen the on the forum the Delftblue daybreak and I’m not sure if I could do it justice compared to FortyEighter’s build, that was a great read and gave a lot of tips and help. But I’ll get the primer on and decide. the tail mod wasn’t to hard, but I’m sure once the first coat of primer is on it will need more attention Im about ready for the first coat of primer, once I go over the model with a finer grain to clear some of my bodgery, once again this is a first painting properly, will start with Halfords primer then once im happy move onto appliance white (seems to be a forum favourite) then as for the rest of the paint I have no idea yet, never used an airbrush and my brush painting skills I need to get up a few more key stages :’) i am am starting to build a collection of kits so I’m sure I’ll be forever busy! Thankyou for the read and bear with me, as I say at a guess it’s probably been 10-15 years since I’ve built a 1/144 airliner and this time I plan to do it properly... ish :’)

Hi Everyone Im doing an Airfix Boeing 727-200 in Iberia Colours. Looking at photos it appears the instructions are all wrong. The instructions state the 727 have grey wings and tail plains with a grey belly. Looking at photos it appears that the aircraft in the box, EC-CFI, Has white tail planes with a bm leading edge and the belly is just white. The main wings is what i need help on. The photos i have found show the wings being white, but the front is silvery grey, can anyone confirm to me what colour that is was and if it is on the underside. Thanks Bradley