bianfuxia Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 This is the next instalment in my 1/200 collection of "every airliner I've flown on, in the livery of the airline I flew it on". It's a slow project. This guy sat on the Shelf of Doom for about three years before I finally spent a night finishing it up - as always for me, it's wheels and engines that slow things down. We flew Air Do from Osaka back to Sapporo in 2018 when we detoured from our vacation in Hokkaido to attend my brother in law's wedding. It was just a short hop on this baby 737. As always these Hasegawa 1/200 kits are neat and easy to build. The decals were good and finished up reasonably well, allowing for them having to curve so much on the big blue and yellow sections. So far, I've finished three 737s as part of this project - this one, the China Eastern -800 pictured, and a Lufthansa -500 I posted some months ago. There's a long way to go - just in the kits I have in the stash or on the Shelf of Doom there are three 777s, two 747s, three small Airbus (319, 320, 321) and a pair of 767s. Diecast/premade models have taken care of the 757, 330, 340, 380 and 747-8, as I can't find kits of those in 1/200. I still need a solution for the Qantas 717. Anyway, I think this one came up ok. Thanks for looking! 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Excellent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 On 7/27/2022 at 3:06 PM, bianfuxia said: I still need a solution for the Qantas 717. At the moment, the only (and a bit painful) solution I can think of is a Hase DC-9, some conversion work and downscaled Hawkeye Decals. Our conversion was 1/144 so not much help. Nice jobs on your 737s! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianfuxia Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 Thanks! Retro Kits made a resin 717 but foolishly I left it too late and it went OOS. Getting my hands on that DC-9 kit is almost as hard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1978 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 You might try to track down the Hasegawa MD-90 kit.You would have a better base kit for the Boeing 717 conversion with it or with a MD-87. Recently I saw a few bagged Hasegawa kits available at Draw Decals. Maybe they are amongst them ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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