NorbertBu Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 (edited) Nowadays it is common practice for Airlines to paint one of their Aircraft in a so called "Retro Look" to commemorate former successful times. In 1952 the Scandinavian Airlines System, short SAS, went another way. They painted one of their Aircraft, in this case a DC-3, in a future livery, . But when the new paint Job was shown to the bosses, they were not amused. They did not like it at all and ordered to repaint the Douglas immediately! As Michael J. Fox said in "Back to the Future, part 1": You guys are not ready for that, but your kids are gonna love it! So this Aircraft never flew in this beautiful livery, what a pity! Edited July 17, 2019 by NorbertBu 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorbertBu Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 (edited) If this livery Looks familiar to you, it has been used on SAS Aircraft like the A340, MD-90s etc. The truth is, I built a Revell A340 in Austrian Airlines livery. The other choice was SAS. I did not want to build another of these big airliners but still liked the SAS decals. I reckoned they would fit onto a 72 scale DC-3, tried it and it worked! I used the old Italeri kit for this Project. It was really a fun build! For the painting I used Revell Aqua Colours, a mixture of Grey and Ocker and a drop of red. The base is made of spraypainted cardboard fixed to a MDF plate. Some grass and gravel added, that's all. Hope you like the "what if". cheers, Norbert Edited July 17, 2019 by NorbertBu 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruskin Air Services Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Nice Dakota, got a few daks to build myself (20 at the last count!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Great idea Norbert, and nicely done, I was thinking about doing something similar with a civil FW-200 that is waiting for a paint job, current Lufthansa colours perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill.B Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 It’s nice to see something a bit different. Nicely executed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorbertBu Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 12 hours ago, Romeo Alpha Yankee said: Great idea Norbert, and nicely done, I was thinking about doing something similar with a civil FW-200 that is waiting for a paint job, current Lufthansa colours perhaps? Oh yeah, that would definitely be an unusual sight! Looking Forward to that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapam Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Excellent work on this "what if" build! It looks especially nice with the diorama base and figures. I tend to think those SAS company men were wrong to dislike this scheme. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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