2 Bobbies....Boeing 737-200,vintage Heller kits in 1/125

[Alex1978]

My first completed airliners in 2021.

I started them somewhere last year and worked on them on and off between other projects.

The main problem was to get decals for them as Heller airliners come in the odd scale of 1/125 and their 737 kit is long out of production.

I found some nice liveries on f-dcal,which even arrived in an acceptable time.

I have now 3 of Heller's Boeing 737,the first one was built in Lufthansa colors,mostly airbrushed and completed with decals from my spares box.

Its a pity that Heller never reissued this kit as they did with most of their other airliners.

Its a very nice model with good shape and the fit is, for its age, quite good.

 

I always liked the old Luxair livery,and because I had been to Luxemburg a few times as a kid,I should have an aircraft of Luxair in my collection.

I also have some old Heller Airbus A300 kits,one of which I also plan to build in these colors.

The RAM 737s were frequent visitors to our swiss airports,together with their 727s.

So when I saw this decal set available for rescale,the decision was easy.

 

Paints are Gunze gloss white and for the engines and slats I used Super metallic Chrome from Gunze,with a gloss black base coat,and different metallic shades for the inlet and exhausts.

Grey is Testors aircraft grey.

Sealed again with Gunze Premium Gloss varnish.

Sadly,I had to find out that Gunze stopped production of this great varnish for whatever reason😳😢,so I picked up all remaining stocks in my local hobbyshop☺...cost me a fortune,but its worth it.

 

 

 

Enough text,on with the photos

 

Alex

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And with one of my critics...he seemed to be in the mood again today😉

 

Edited January 20, 2021 by Alex1978

[SAT69]

Beautiful models, especially the Royal Air Maroc version. At least your "critic" isn't playing with them ... or does he?

[janneman36]

53 minutes ago, SAT69 said:

Beautiful models, especially the Royal Air Maroc version. At least your "critic" isn't playing with them ... or does he?

Maybe it goes after It when it fly’s away....Great builds again Alex 👍

 

cheers, Jan

[jean]

Hi Alex,

 

absolutely brilliant builds!!!! Congrats!

All I know is that if I tried this stunt with one of our cats, the result would be a foregone conclusion... Give me the name of your taxidermist. This cat looks almost alive!

 

Great show!!!

 

JR

[swralph]

Lovely builds Alex.😀

[Alex1978]

1 hour ago, jean said:

Hi Alex,

 

absolutely brilliant builds!!!! Congrats!

All I know is that if I tried this stunt with one of our cats, the result would be a foregone conclusion... Give me the name of your taxidermist. This cat looks almost alive!

 

Great show!!!

 

JR

Thank you

 

My kitties are well trained...they know models are off limits😉

[Alex1978]

1 hour ago, janneman36 said:

Maybe it goes after It when it fly’s away....Great builds again Alex 👍

 

cheers, Jan

Thank you Jan.

My cats like to have a look.But they are not trying to play with my models.😉

[Skodadriver]

Very nice build Alex.

 

Heller didn't do themselves any favours by choosing a peculiar scale but the kits were pretty reasonable. I built the Boeing 727 about 20 years ago and liked it.

 

Good to see the cat taking an interest.  He's very like the cat we had when I was a child.

 

Dave G

[Turbofan]

Hi Alex,

Great 737's! We don't see many Heller 737s on RFI so something of a novelty.

Good choice of liveries Luxair is definitely one on my list as I remember them well at Heathrow in the late 70's and early 80's and I do like the RAM livery too, again another from my spotting days although I remember 727s were more frequent visitors.

I wonder if Heller are ever going to rerelease any of their 1/125 airliners.

Cheers,

Ian

[Abandoned Project]

Your cat staring straight into the camera is freaking me out!

Great 737s BTW, very nice.

[Alex1978]

23 minutes ago, Turbofan said:

Hi Alex,

Great 737's! We don't see many Heller 737s on RFI so something of a novelty.

Good choice of liveries Luxair is definitely one on my list as I remember them well at Heathrow in the late 70's and early 80's and I do like the RAM livery too, again another from my spotting days although I remember 727s were more frequent visitors.

I wonder if Heller are ever going to rerelease any of their 1/125 airliners.

Cheers,

Ian

Thank you very much Ian.

Heller has still the 727,747,DC-10,Concorde and A320 in their catalogue.

Just a pity that the 737,L-1011 and A300 are not getting a rerelease as it seems.

They are really good kits.

It took me quite a while to get hold of all those Heller airliners.The L-1011 and 737 are very hard to find.

[Alex1978]

9 minutes ago, Abandoned Project said:

Your cat staring straight into the camera is freaking me out!

Great 737s BTW, very nice.

Thank you very much.

Yes,I realized that later as well.Maybe shes trying to hypnotize...😄

[Abandoned Project]

3 minutes ago, Alex1978 said:

Maybe shes trying to hypnotize....

......you into building a TNT A300 to match her fur! 

[RMCS]

Lovley 

[Alex1978]

23 hours ago, Skodadriver said:

Very nice build Alex.

 

Heller didn't do themselves any favours by choosing a peculiar scale but the kits were pretty reasonable. I built the Boeing 727 about 20 years ago and liked it.

 

Good to see the cat taking an interest.  He's very like the cat we had when I was a child.

 

Dave G

Thank you Dave.

 

I dont understand Heller's decision for this scale.

Amongst themselves they make up for a nice collection,but thats it.

I built the 727 a few years ago too.Its quite nice,only the nose is somewhat off.Took me some time to fix it.

[Andy Dyck]

The last pic is superb 👍😂