moaning dolphin Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Greetings One and All Another one of my recent completed ones. This is the ICM 1.144 TU144. This was a nice kit with nice engraved external detail. The plastic was a bit bizzare as to me it resembled bacalite! From what I can remember it went together well but attention does need to be paid to the instructions! It was painted with Halfords appliance white and Halfords Polar grey which were recommended by other BMers and it seems to look ok to my untrained eye. The paints were accidently smuggled out of the UK in my shipping container when I moved from the UK to NS but I think I got away with it!! The one downside was the decals. They were pants, and crumbled when hit with water. The first cheat stripe on the rear was a mess and i ended up brush painting it. The other decals were treated to a coating of decal fix and they behaved after that. So here is my effort! And the offending decal area Cheers now Bob 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbuna Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Very nice indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky coffeeboat Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Very nice. When Revell release this kit later this year I hope there's a load of what-if airliner schemes as I'd like to do a few of these. I've got the ICM kit and I understand what you mean about the style of plastic. How well does it glue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 awesome work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madaboutmodels Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 very smart job, will have to do one of these some day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roof Rat Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Very niceski RR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moaning dolphin Posted July 29, 2013 Author Share Posted July 29, 2013 Very nice. When Revell release this kit later this year I hope there's a load of what-if airliner schemes as I'd like to do a few of these. I've got the ICM kit and I understand what you mean about the style of plastic. How well does it glue? From what I remember the fuselage join wouldn't bond very well and needed CA glue to keep it together. Had I known Revell were releasing one I may have waited a little longer but the build was fine (I have had a lot worse!!!) Cheers now Bob Pinky Coffeeboat? Is that a 'tea supping, euchre playing feet up tabs out' coffee boat? from a jealous exgrubber! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 nice work and well recovered with the decals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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