Boeing 737-800 -the TUI FLY Haribo Logo Jets Revell

[Alex1978]

These 2 kits are the Revell offerings of the Boeing 737-800.

Revell were the first to offer the -800 Series,first release in 1999.

Its a nice kit that goes together easily but suffers from some errors.

Too low cabin windows,wrong shaped engines ( more of the -300 to -500 types) and on later releases,completely off shaped winglets.

I tried to adress these issues on my Revell 737s as good as possible.

What was not possible to be corrected on those 2 were the cabin windows,because of the design of the decals.Otherwise they wouldnt fit.But its not so noticeable,so i oversee that matter.

What I spent the most work on were the engines.

I found a very helpful guide here on BM regarding the Revell 737s flaws.

So the engines were mostly corrected by the ways described in that BM thread.

The winglets were cut and sanded to shape.

 

TUI FLY is well known for their many different Logo Jets and the Haribo liveries are among the most popular.

Revell issued both of those liveries in 2010 with superb decal sets by NAZCA.

I planned to go with the open window option but as no silver frames were included in those sets,the windows tended to disappear,esp. on the blue one.

So in the end I used the provided cabin window decals.

 

All painted with Revell enamels.

The blue one with Revell blue 54 and the golden one with Revell copper as the gold paint was way too bright.

 

Thanks for looking

Alex

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 15, 2023 by Alex1978

[Sergei]

Superb finish of two striking schemes. Lovely job!

[Alex1978]

21 hours ago, Sergei said:

Superb finish of two striking schemes. Lovely job!

Thank you very much Sergei