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The mighty Douglas tri motor has landed here in sunny Brisvegas ( well yesterday it actually landed)
A big thank to Graeme Harris for this amazing kit that he found and sold to me with short notice, amazing and I appreciate it greatly!... its now time to start building it for a very a good mate . So the 146 is on the back burner until this one is done... the decals will take a while to get here... I just hope the arrive in time!




Cheers again Graeme I hope I can do this model justice its an amazing kit thats for sure!

Tim

Graeme is a good bloke for that sort of thing

So what scheme will the MD -11 wear Tim?

Oh goody it arrived and you are straight into it, and like Ray I want to know what scheme, we are a nosy bunch[*]

Well gents this will wear a Federal Express freighter livery using the registration N586FE.
Why that rego? I hear you ask, well my mate managed to get a tour through that particular aircraft when it visited Melbourne recently and he got some fantastic photos.... and he is the one who has a very very soft spot for these aircraft... hence why I'm going down this track as his Birthday present. However... the only decals I could find... have to come from Draw decal... and that could take some time... so I will get this built and painted up and hopefully those decals arrive in time!

Nice scheme Tim, I think that I will be doing that scheme on the new Eastern Express/MicroMir MD-11 when it is released.

I did the FedEx A300 not long ago and I used Tamiya X16 for the purple on mine and it turned out a pretty good match.

RayS wrote:Nice scheme Tim, I think that I will be doing that scheme on the new Eastern Express/MicroMir MD-11 when it is released.

I did the FedEx A300 not long ago and I used Tamiya X16 for the purple on mine and it turned out a pretty good match.

Thanks Ray! you have just confirmed what i suspected to be the colour as close to the Fed Ex purple as possible... thankfully I also have it in my paints collection!