WITHOUT FURTHER ADO. I *FINALLY* present the Boeing 737......
The long national nightmare is over! ;D I barely worked any at all on this last year but somewhere along the way I learned/figured out how to finally approach painting all the patterns on the underside. Not as easy as you'd think to get it properly plotted, measured, keep straight, and remain accurate. All this stuff going over curves and wrapping around wing roots, etc. I had no clue how to go about it a couple years back so the thing gathered dust... Anyway... about a week ago I got back to it and ran straight to the finish line.
Turned out pretty good I think.
1/144 Airfix(1969) Boeing 737-268C, HZ-AGA Saudia (Saudi Arabian Airlines) as she was delivered in 1972 with full ground kit.
Fotocut PE gravel plate with scratch built connecting mechanisms, new nose gear/gravel plate fairing made of Milliput, modified nose gear doors, filled in the windows, corrected engines (original Airfix) with Milliput spacer, new engine pylon shape using Milliput, stretched sprue vortex dissipaters, & corrected hinge location on tail. The transfers are a mixture of decals between the old ATP and Avigraphics sheets. Rattle can paint for the white and brush painted acrylics for wings, panels, wing interiors, bottom grey section, etc. Rattle can gloss on the white portions and the metal paint on the bottom portion is Champion Sprayon rattle can.
I dragged out some of my previous builds for size comparison including a 737-400, F-4 Phantom, DC-9, etc.
Hands down the most tedious, problematic, and time consuming build I've ever done. It looks so simple.... I mean.. it's just a fuselage, two wings, two engines, and some gear... how difficult can it be? Well.... heh....
ANYWAY
Thanks to Kit Spackman for the Fotocut PE. I have a set of stairs left over from it that will go on the back of a 727! I'm planning to do the Northwest Orient 727.... you know the one........ it will be my first "in flight" build for an airliner and the first time intentionally doing an in-flight model, period. I've done in-flight a couple times in the past but only because the kit was designed that way and had no gear. Also, I will be attempting to light it... so.... we'll have a lighted in-flight 727 with lowered rear stairs.... ambitious, for sure.
I'd like to dedicate this one to Graeme.