Hasegawa Geek Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Hello, This is a refurbishment project I did on a Hasegawa 747 kit. I bought this kit partially assembled from 1989 and many broken and cracked pieces of plastic, glue everywhere and unfilled windows. I figured it would be a fun project and decided to put an easy livery on it. This plane is 9V-SIB, Singapore's 2nd 747 in the fleet in 1973. It flew for about 5 different airlines, including PanAm, until being stored in Oregon in 2013 with Evergreen livery. I got to walk around the same aircraft last year and it is in great shape, but has no engines on it. I modeled my plane with very light weathering as these were immaculate at the beginning of their life in SIA fleet. -1981 Hasegawa Air France 747-200 kit -Classic Airlines cheatline decals -26 Decals tail piece -DRAW Decals wing corogards -Tamiya and Alclad paint -Future Foor Polish clear coat 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Incredible restoration/rebuild! Delightful finish! A request: please tell the passengers that we are already waaaaay too many in California 🙃 Cheers 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 'Queen of the Skies' and you've done a beautiful job..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Fantastic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbofan Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Hi HG, Beautiful! What a great job you've done on this. I can imagine what a mess it was when you got it but there's no sign it wasn't build fresh out of the box now. The 70's SIA livery is such a classic and one I have on my 1/144 to do list. Out of interest why didn't you use the tail from the Classic-airlines decal or the cheatlines from 26? Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abandoned Project Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Gorgeous! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FortyEighter Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Fantastic!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desert falcon Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Magnificent airplane, very well done 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasegawa Geek Posted November 22, 2019 Author Share Posted November 22, 2019 Cheers all and thanks for the kind words. 20 hours ago, Turbofan said: Hi HG, Beautiful! What a great job you've done on this. I can imagine what a mess it was when you got it but there's no sign it wasn't build fresh out of the box now. The 70's SIA livery is such a classic and one I have on my 1/144 to do list. Out of interest why didn't you use the tail from the Classic-airlines decal or the cheatlines from 26? Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Ian Ian, I originally tried to use the Two-Six sheet. The cheatlines were clearly not designed for the Hasegawa kit, as they did not line up and with the fuselage whatsoever. The tail piece however fit great, so I left those on. I talked to Nick at Classic Airlines and he was able to size his SIA sheet exactly to the Hasegawa kit and sent me a sheet. Perfect fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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