! I just noticed the presentation topic, I will drop a few words asap.I do not think the Zvezda 777 kit needs a presentation, I believe there are already a few reviews/photos here and there on the net, anyway what a nice kit ! It has everything, it is well molded, it is detailed, it looks to be accurate, it fits beautifully, it even has a quite decent decal sheet. I bought 2 copies of this kit along with the Revell E195 and the difference in overall quality is huge.
Mine will spot the imho very attractive Air India 777-200LR livery. I discovered that 26 Decals make a new decal sheet STS44264 that covers both 200LR and 300ER versions. I understand this sheet is traditional silkscreen and currently being reprinted due to quality issues. Anyway I am impatient to place my order.
The left fuselage part has been cut to the correct size, I removed 10 windows in front and 9 windows behind the wing :
The red rectangles represent the cut lines but they are barely visible due to bad lighting :
The green rectangles represent the window patches I had to do to restore the window count which is different from that of the 777-300ER. The 5 windows to be puttied, on the right side, are where the door 3L is located :
Sections ready to be glued :
The next photos are of the right fuselage part, everything was shortened to the correct size and ideally matches its left counterpart. All I am left now is correcting the window count. On the center fuselage section are the areas to be hollowed out, delimited with Tamiya masking tape, and on the 2 extra fuselage sections are the window patches to be saved, protected again with the tape :
Here the areas have been cut out, the left hole is still not perfectly filed to the definitive shape while the right hole is ready to accept its window patch :
Glued in place, I now have to finish the other hole and glue the 3 sections of the right fuselage part :
I cannot wait for Revell's reboxing, I find the Zvezda decal sheet quite good but knowing the Revell decal sheet is being designed by Daco/Skyline, it will be as usual magnificent !
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