Gimme Shelter Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 (edited) Hi (updated 14-5-14) - please see last entry if interested ******************************* Fresh off the stock shelf is a Revell 1/144 A380 undergoing a British Airways colour scheme using 26 Decals and Ray's detailing set. I checked the forum yesterday and enjoyed looking at the archives of other similar builds in this colour scheme which has given me a few finishing touches ideas for next week when I hope to have her completed. Having spent a long time previously carving up my RAF L1011's wings to portray deployed flaps and slats, I have decided to take the short cut and produce an "in flight" model of the A380 leaving the wings and undercarriage alone. I always like to have a good stock of all my modelling tools, paints, tapes, primers etc however this kit has been particularly greedy having used all my decent masking tape and primer up - and why I bothered the pre-shading I just don't know now as it was a total waste of time. I went to great effort to angle my airbrush when adding the white and blue but the desired effect failed for some reason - it always worked before on previous kits so I will have to settle for an oil wash over the panel lines once varnished and decaled. Its not a terribly exciting subject but I have had true red, white and blue BA blood for the last 47 years and thought I would give it a go just for fun. This will have to be a ceiling hanger when completed (much to my wife's annoyance but she doesn't know about this addition to come yet!) For what its worth - please enjoy and now for some better pictures of what is to come... 14-5-14 The model is nearing completion now - I hope to have the final assembly done tonight with a small display base. I have used the fantastic 26 decals for this but managed to mess up the tail fin logo decal - possibly due to the decal set getting contaminated but Ray at 26 kindly sent me a new set at the speed of light to help me redeem the problem. I tried to remake the tail logo myself using paint and an airbrush dusting which looked good at a distance but close up - nope... so here below is my attempt to correct the decal problem - it was OK to look at from a distance but didn't look too good on the bench so thanks to Ray at 26Decals, here is the completed pre-assembly stage. I noted a kind mention on the forum form a fellow member about the lower side of the wing not having the corroguard de-markation however my supply of paint was dwindling so I only chose to correct the flap runners oil panel line wash applied too thank you for looking in and for your interest again John Edited May 14, 2014 by Gimme Shelter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenko Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Very nice indeed. Been on both that BA have and the aircraft is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Looking great so far Just one thing to consider if it's not too late - A380s do not have corruguard under the wings, it's only on the upper surfaces. Looking forward to seeing it finished! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 Looking great so far Just one thing to consider if it's not too late - A380s do not have corruguard under the wings, it's only on the upper surfaces. Looking forward to seeing it finished! Tom oops ! Thanks for letting me know - as I still have some aluminium / silver work to add to the leading and trailing edges of the wings, I will make the necessary changes you have pointed out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 Very nice indeed. Been on both that BA have and the aircraft is brilliant. luck, lucky you - I wish I had. I was on the car park coach going back to the long stay car park at LHR on Tuesday afternoon this week and one of BA's A380's touched down right beside us while we were on the perimeter road - what a giant! (but I still love and prefer our 747-4 fleet and dread the day they all go) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 (edited) Looking great so far Just one thing to consider if it's not too late - A380s do not have corruguard under the wings, it's only on the upper surfaces. Looking forward to seeing it finished! Tom And just to add, corrogard would not in any case be applied to the flap track fairings. Edited May 1, 2014 by buzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Looking good. What is your plan for the windows, the hundreds of windows? Was lucky enough to score a ride on the Emirates 380 a couple years back, during a promo tour. Granted there was no freight or luggage, and probably very little fuel, but it was one of the shortest take off runs I can recall. They took us out over the Pacific for three hours, and force fed us champagne ( the 'good stuff' in their words ) and caviar until we begged for mercy, and were returned to LAX. Only drawback, was, as it was the first time an A380 was to land at LAX, they had all the fire equipment out to give it the water salute, but ten minutes before touchdown, an AA flight from Hawaii declared some sort of difficulty, and they were all forced to rush off. Quite disappointed I was. Cheers, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 Looking good. What is your plan for the windows, the hundreds of windows? Was lucky enough to score a ride on the Emirates 380 a couple years back, during a promo tour. Granted there was no freight or luggage, and probably very little fuel, but it was one of the shortest take off runs I can recall. They took us out over the Pacific for three hours, and force fed us champagne ( the 'good stuff' in their words ) and caviar until we begged for mercy, and were returned to LAX. Only drawback, was, as it was the first time an A380 was to land at LAX, they had all the fire equipment out to give it the water salute, but ten minutes before touchdown, an AA flight from Hawaii declared some sort of difficulty, and they were all forced to rush off. Quite disappointed I was. Cheers, Mike Hi Mike Ah - another lucky A380 passenger I see - the windows (I hope) will be masked out by the decal windows from the 26 set - I am in big trouble if they don't match up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Looking good, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverstone 2 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 luck, lucky you - I wish I had. I was on the car park coach going back to the long stay car park at LHR on Tuesday afternoon this week and one of BA's A380's touched down right beside us while we were on the perimeter road - what a giant! (but I still love and prefer our 747-4 fleet and dread the day they all go) Me too, I'm an ex B747-400/ -8 active pilot, now fly other types, but still get to instruct/examine on the. -400 sim which is also fun too. To me the 747 is still the best looking aircraft in the skies, I know I'm biased but nothing compares. A380 is not as good a performer as everyone hoped or thought, hence why Boeing were right never to make the type they intended back in the Early 90s. Unfortunately the 777-300 and the soon to be 777x will be king! A real shame but it's all about the big twins now! It will be a sad day when BA finish flying their 50+ fleet of -400s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XV571 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Fantastic looking big 'bus John, the BA scheme is probably my favourite scheme on the A380. Looking great so far Just one thing to consider if it's not too late - A380s do not have corruguard under the wings, it's only on the upper surfaces. Looking forward to seeing it finished! Tom oops ! Thanks for letting me know - as I still have some aluminium / silver work to add to the leading and trailing edges of the wings, I will make the necessary changes you have pointed out Actually, A380s don't use corroguard at all The upper wingbox is now painted in a finish called Aeroflex; on the A380 the colour is RAL 7004 grey. The rest of the wing and both surfaces of the Horizontal Tail Plane is BAC707 grey. I did let Ray know but if you had an early instruction sheet this quoted the corroguard. Hopefully he's amended later versions. HTH, Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybeast Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Sorry to resurrect this post, but I can't get over what a beautiful model you have finished! I've asked in my own thread, but did you apply the default decals to your model? Also, have you used the first flight or Lufthansa version? I've noticed a few little differences with the 26decals which I suspect may be because I'm using an older model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybeast Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Sorry to resurrect this post, but I can't get over what a beautiful model you have finished! I've asked in my own thread, but did you apply the default decals to your model? Also, have you used the first flight or Lufthansa version? I've noticed a few little differences with the 26decals which I suspect may be because I'm using an older model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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