Authentic Airliners 1:144 CRJ-900 Lufthansa Regional

[Malair]

My latest build is the Authentic Airliners 1: 144 Bombardier CRJ-900 in the Lufthansa livery (also by Authentic Airliners0. I started working on this model years ago, but never finished it until now.

 

I have flown on board the CRJ-900 several times myself, but to be honest I am not really a fan of this aircraft. The seats are very tight and I experienced an incident twice. When I flew with American Eagle in 2012 the APU did not work so it was 1) scorching hot in the aircraft and 2) the engines could not be started (they had to come with blowers to start them manually). The flight after that was one of the most spectacular I have experienced though (the pilots, two young guys, wanted to get home quickly, so the throttle was pushed to the maximum. In addition, because of the delay, they had to maneuver between all kinds of flight routes. The flight attendant fell down two times because they made the aircraft turn so fast). The second incident was with Lufthansa Cityline from Munich to Lvov (where my ex was from). We had to turn around halfway because something was broken and therefore they could no longer take off (not an issue with the landing by the way). Because there were no Lufthansa technicians in Lvov, the aircraft could not be repaired there. Extra annoying about this was that my ex was afraid to fly (I had to use all my convincing skills to get her on the plane) and the last thing you want to hear is that there is a "technical problem". Anyway, this has always stayed with me, so that's why I used the Lufthansa Regional livery for this model

 

Anyway, the pictures (sorry for all the photo's, but I wanted to show off my newly made correctly scaled and Forex printed backgrounds ;)):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not much else to add. Great kit and decals and come highly recommended.

 

Next up will be either the KLM 767, Aeroflot An-10 or the KLM L-14.

 

Thanks for watching and see you next time!

 

Martijn

[Abandoned Project]

Those base boards look great, especially the apron. The CRJ looks good too.

[Turbofan]

Hi Martijn,

That's ace! Love the detail on the wings.

Been following your build over on the Dutch modellers site so it's good to see it finished so soon, quite a quick build!

Good job AA came out with their silk screened decal as the original laser decal you were going to use would've been tricky to wrap around the tiny tail!

I often see these here at MAN and have thought about building the BPK kit sometime.

Looking forward to your 767, which KLM livery will it be in? Are you going to build an American Eagle one?

Cheers,

Ian

Ps really impressed with your new bases!

[Alex1978]

Very nice build and photography👍

I have the smaller CRJ-700 from BPK,which I plan on building anytime soon.

 

Quite some adventures you had flying with these.

I flew once on a LH CRJ.

FRA-BSL,which I found very pleasant and comfortable.

 

Alex

[swralph]

Looks great.😀

[RMCS]

Fantastic 

[mitchem]

Excellent build, finish and photos 

 

Thanks for the inspiration.

 

mike

[Graeme H]

Great job on the CRJ, like your base boards as well, especially the runway/taxiway ones

 

[fjaweijfopi4j48]

Great model and excellent display!

I counted 1,345,783 stencils!

[Vesa Jussila]

Really nice result there. You have done great work with all these decals. Those make difference.

[Toryu]

Superb model and presentation. I don't know how often I've been flying on one of these, albeit it seems it was a shorter fuselage version (not sure if such exists).

[Skodadriver]

Hi Martijn. Thanks for another superb build with your usual excellent weathering. Back in September 2006 I had a short flight on D-ACKA (for some reason the aircraft's name Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm stuck in my mind) from Basel to Frankfurt, the opposite direction to Alex1978. Contrary to your experience nothing went wrong - the aircraft was virtually new, the weather was beautiful with splendid views of Aschaffenburg Schloss on the descent and the all-female crew gave us a great flight for 35 minutes or so. 

 

Seasons greetings from Scotland.

 

Dave G

 

[SAT69]

Extraordinary work on the model and displays. Something to be truly proud of.

[Malair]

Sorry for my late reply! Christmas, New Year and a Lockdown all came into play.

 

Thanks for all the nice words and compliments. That is much appreciated!

 

On 24/12/2020 at 17:25, Turbofan said:

Looking forward to your 767, which KLM livery will it be in? Are you going to build an American Eagle one?

 

It will be the last KLM Livery this aircraft has flown in (i.e. PH-BZK for example). I'm tempted to buy the CRJ-200 or CRJ-900 BPK kit as well and make an American Eagle Livery. Sigh...So many models, so little time!

 

On 25/12/2020 at 12:43, Toryu said:

I don't know how often I've been flying on one of these, albeit it seems it was a shorter fuselage version (not sure if such exists).

That can very well be the case. The base type is the CRJ-100/200, which is significantly shorter. The streched type is the CRJ-700 series with CRJ-900 and CRJ-1000 as longer variants of the CRJ-700 base.

 

On 25/12/2020 at 02:21, fjaweijfopi4j48 said:

I counted 1,345,783 stencils!

Seems about right! And I had to individually cut them out as well 😛

[Dennis_C]

Great model of not the greatest airplane

I do find it a bit disproportionate with long fuselage but smallish wings and rudder and too large engine nacelles. Flew this CRJ generation only once BRU-FRA with Lufthansa. A very quick decent in Frankfurt so my wife complaint a lot because of rapid pressure change. Likely that was not aircraft's problem though. Of course it's much tighter than Embraer which probably stimulated Bombardier to develop the C-series which is now A220. 

 

Anyway this does not relate to the model quality which in my view is superior. Congratulations! 

Edited January 7, 2021 by Dennis_C