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The maiden flight of the narrow-body Boeing 757 took place in 1982 and the plan of Boeing was to introduce a replacement to the already ageing Boeing 727. The production of the 757 ended in 2004 and a total of 1,050 aircraft were manufactured during those years. The most common sub-type was the 757-200 which could accommodate a maximum of 235 passengers. Air Finland was a charter airline founded in 2002. During their ten years of operation the company operated five Boeing 757-200’s to fly Finnish holiday makers to the southern sun. Air Finland's operations went belly up in June 2012, mainly due to higher fuel prices and market overcapacity. Boeing 757’s were also used by Finnair and the largest users of the 757 were Delta, United and American Airlines. I ordered the Nazca Decals sheet for Air Finland's earlier livery Boeing 757. There’s a Minicraft 757 kit but it’s got so negative comments in model reviews that it wasn’t an option. I chose instead the Russian manufacturer PAS-model’s 1/144 scale resin kit, which had the Rolls Royce engines used in Air Finland's 757’fleet. The kit was mostly ok, although there was quite a lot of flash to be cleaned up. Some sanding and putty was needed but as a whole assembling the model was relatively easy. I also scratched a lot of details into the model, e.g. air beacon lights,, pitot tubes, antennas, etc. The cockpit and cabin windows are from Authentic Airliner decals and the corogards from Flying Colors. I painted the body of the model with white Tamiya Fine surface primer, which I then sealed with Tamiya’s gloss varnish spray, TS-13. The gray areas of the wings I painted with Xtracolor X150 ,Canadian Voodoo grey and the blue areas of the engines by mixing Vallejo medium blue and Andrea blue. I also used other Humbrol and Vallejo paints for smaller details.
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PAS-Models has released limited editions 1/144th Sud SE.210 Caravelle resin kits Sources: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429866687294934/permalink/2282161808732080/ http://pas-decals.com/index.php/category/view/4?start=24 - ref. PM144251 - Sud SE.210 Caravelle "Air Algérie" Source: http://pas-decals.com/index.php/product/view/4/949 - ref. PM144252 - Sud SE.210 Caravelle "Alitalia" Source: http://pas-decals.com/index.php/product/view/4/950 - ref. PM144253 - Sud SE.210 Caravelle "Alitalia" old Source: http://pas-decals.com/index.php/product/view/4/951 - ref. PM144254 - Sud SE.210 Caravelle "Air Inter" Source: http://pas-decals.com/index.php/product/view/4/952 - ref. PM144255 - Sud SE.210 Caravelle "Tunisair" Source: http://pas-decals.com/index.php/product/view/4/953 - ref. PM144256 - "Transavia Source: http://pas-decals.com/index.php/product/view/4/954 V.P.