marevic1 Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Whilst adding the finishing touches to my Ansett 747, I decide to have a play with a kit my wife picked from an Antiques store last weekend. The B747 kit was produced by Landex Creations, a manufacturer I've never heard of before. Based on the box and contents it looks to be an early 70's piece. It also a unique 1/288 scale, something I haven't seen before. With not many parts I decided to do a quick, no fuss build. With the airframe halves and wings glued it was time to fill the gaps and sand the raised panel lines. An hour later I had it ready for priming and a splash of colour. Next came some metallic colour for the wings. Once dry I masked the wing centre and added the grey. Everything was going perfect up until this point. I decided to add the decals to the body of the aircraft at they stage and found that the kit decals were actually stickers. Not perfect but not a show stopper either. But when I added the sticker to the tail I realised that the Singapore Airlines logo was yellow with a ' Black' background instead of Blue. Oh well, I'll just have to get some aftermarket one Ummm.... 1/288 scale is not common. In fact I couldn't find any at all. So at this point I decided to print my own. I'd picked up some inkjet decal paper a while ago so I thought I'd give it a try. While looking for reference pics I stumbled across a great pic of a JAL 747 that took my fancy. If I was going to try making my own decals I might as well try this. So a couple hours later I had some decals sized, printed and ready to go. One side done and dusted. While I'm happy with the way the decals turned out, they are a litte thick. Hopefully once I'm finished with the decals a couple of coats of Future will address that. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marevic1 Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 Calling the decals done. I think I'll need quite a few coats of Future to blend them in. Overall, pretty happy with how they've turned out considering the lack of options available. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marevic1 Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Overall, pretty happy with how they've turned out considering the lack of options available. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marevic1 Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) And she's done! Added the grey on the bottom portion of the aircraft, finished and attached the engines and lights. 1/288 scale is very close to a 1/72 jet for those wondering. Edited October 9, 2019 by marevic1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 That's a great scheme! Good save. Regards, Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim R-T-C Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Lovely work. I think there is a Revell A380 in 1/288 which might sit nicely alongside. Aside from that, in the scale there is just a selection of Antonovs that you might stumble across occasionally on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 nice to see someone actually building this kit - I've seen it a few times and got all excited until seeing what is actually in the box which then reminds me why I have always been loyal to Hasegawa. Nice livery choice there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Nice job, that has finished off nicely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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