Alex1978 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 On my quest on building most of the Interflug fleet,the VEB Plasticart Tu-154 is my most recent addition to the collection of this former East German manufacturer. I already build one of Plasticarts TU-154 in Aeroflot C/S and despite being an ancient kit it represents this classic Russian airliner quite well,although its of course no match for todays model kits,but I like this kit noetheless. Fitting is pretty good,which is not a usual habit with Plasticart kits... The paintscheme that is provided in the box shows the TU-154 in a way she never wore,so I needed to make some corrections to get it as accurate as possible. The tail decal was cut to the correct shape and the cheatline was airbrushed underneath the windows. The kits decals had the cheatline running over the windows. The instructions also say to paint the lower fuselage and the wings in plain silver,probably to get one to use the infamous silverpaint from that silvertube provided in the kit... . Research on the net showed that the underside as well as the wings were painted in light grey with the leading edges in silver. No other changes were made to the kit itself,just some details were highlighted by paint to make her more lively. Paints used for this build are Tamyia pure white from spraycan,Revell light grey 371,Revell satin red 321,and Testors silver and aluminium and Revell Iron 91 and Humbrol burnt iron not polished.Sealed with Revell Aqua Color gloss from Spraycan. According to an Interflug website,Interflug never owned the TU-154 but she wore its livery,so this makes her an intereesting subject for display. Next,and probably the last airliner coming into my Interflug collection will be the IL-62,from VEB Plasticart as well. But this one will need some modifications to get it to shape,esp. the engines need some attention.But that is another story... Here some pics of the TU-154. Cheers, Alex Box artwork as she comes 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vajled Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 nice work ... good job Did model survive after cat visit it? LOL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1978 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 nice work ... good job Did model survive after cat visit it? LOL Thank you. Yes,the model survived.The cats are always around when I am taking pics.They seem to be very interested in my doings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Aer Lingus Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Simply beautiful great finish Thanks for sharing regards Eamonn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 superbly done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Womby Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Lovely work. Those old VEB/Plasticart kits are pretty crude but that looks a great replica of the real thing. David 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Another goody Alex. I've said it before, having built a couple of these Plasticart kits myself, I am in awe of the quality product you always manage to turn out. ( Hello kitty ) Cheers, Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1978 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Lovely work. Those old VEB/Plasticart kits are pretty crude but that looks a great replica of the real thing. David Thank you David. Yes,those kits are crude in their execution compared to todays standards,but I like them nonetheless as they are like a timecapsule back behind the iron curtain that shows what they had back in those days.Thas why I try not to make too many corrections on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1978 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Another goody Alex. I've said it before, having built a couple of these Plasticart kits myself, I am in awe of the quality product you always manage to turn out. ( Hello kitty ) Cheers, Mike Thank you Mike. Just 5 more of those kits to go,then my collection is complete... They are pretty hard to deal with sometimes but one learns quite a lot about modelling while building each one of those. Currently working on the IL-62 from Plasticart,among lots of other builds,and that one seems to be a tough one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 The Tu-154 is a good looker, specially in the Interflug scheme. I'm surprised how good the Plasticartkit looks, thats a lovely job you have done there. Cheers John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonR Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Lovely build, always wondered how these kits turn out, looks great! And your cat is the twin of ours!! Cheers Simon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalkeEins Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 nice looking model... VEB Plasticart were the subject of an article in Jet & Prop a while back that I was reading recently.. the guy behind them went on to do the masters for the large Revell kits BV 222, Condor etc.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Fantastic build and this is a lovely shot.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teeradej Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Love both model and cat... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Nice job, cat is a bit out of scale tho! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Nice job, cat is a bit out of scale tho! Could be worse,could be S7 with a siberian tiger!.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supertom Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 That actually looks pretty darn cool. Nice job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme H Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Fantastic result, from what is a very basic kit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike DeTorrice Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 A beautiful build of this one ! It looks great and the excellent images really show it off well. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomasca Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Beautiful! Almost makes Interflug look glamorous! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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