Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

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Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby RayS » Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:07 pm

This arvo I had a chance to start this one, I flew on one of these the Hawaii and back in 2018. So let's start with the parts. The Thai Airlines boxing of the Revell A330-300, Braz Models A330-200 replacement tail (x2), Braz Model Roll Royce RB211s for the A330 and the decals from 8a Decs.
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What's in the box?
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The kit Pratt and Whittney engines and the roller replacing them
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The tails, from the left the kit tail, Braz Models A330-200 premod 48979, Braz Models A330-200 postmod 48979. The last one is the one fitted to the Hawaiian Airlines aircraft. It differs from the premod tail by having the same height as the A330-300 tail but has a wider chord and larger mounting bulges (the premod tail was taller and had the standard sized bulges and was fitted to early production A330-200s).
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The fuselage sections I need to remove to make a -200 from a -300, 21 mm (6 windows) forward of the wing, 15 mm (4 windows) aft of the wing and the tail.
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My method, line the cutting lines with dymo tape, scribe the fuselage where the cuts are to be made as a guide and then cut though with a razor saw, 4 cuts on each fuselage plus one for each vertical stab 10 cuts in all.
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Cutting done in about 40 minutes...
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And we have an A330-200 length fuselage
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Next was to remove the resin poor stubs from the vertical stab and engines, I used a razor saw on the stab but that was taking too long on the first engine, so I sanded the stubs down on my 60 grit sanding board I use for vacforms, top engine done in this image.
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First fuselage half being reassembled, I cut up a couple of the sections removed and glued them in the fuselage to reinforce the join, you can see the reinforcement parts at lower left and mid right.
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Both sides done and taped together to make sure I got the cuts/length right on both sides (looks like I succeeded)
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The engines were glued together with super glue, but I stuffed them both up (misaligned).
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Some filling and sanding now required to fix the offset parts. When you don't want superglue to set instantly it does.
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Re: Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby hrtpaul » Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:13 am

Nice work and great colour scheme :)
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Re: Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby oz rb fan » Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:43 pm

that is going to look great.
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Re: Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby RayS » Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:21 am

Thanks guys.

Some gluing and filling action has happened, I started to get the flying surfaces assembled
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The cabin windows were filled and cleaned up, I also added nose weight
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and then the fuselage halves went together
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Finally the engines were sanded, I not happy with one of them (bottom one) as the nosed section was hugely off centre and has a noticeable hump leading down to the intake lip after sanding, so I think some more putty required to make it less noticeable
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Re: Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby scotty100368 » Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:42 pm

The contouring suggests to me that you put the second engine nacelle front on upside-down... :?
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Re: Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby RayS » Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:32 am

It was just quick grabbing superglue and my lack of attention that had the nose ring set off centre, I sanded it down to get rid of the resulting lips. Some putty is restoring the shape a little.
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I also had to knock down the base fin supports on the post mod fin as they looked to big, I think they still might be too big but better than before. Fin installed now, horizontal stabs just pushed in.
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Next were the wings and adding the flaptrack fairings, winglets already added and puttied
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And finally a mock up of the major parts, Left engine putty to have final shaping.
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Re: Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby F-27pax » Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:13 am

This is looking very promising and clean, I wish mine looked as good at this stage. I particularly like how the engines have turned out. I'm following your lead with this one because I have some A.330s and A.340s to make after I've finished my set of A.320s
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Re: Hawaiian Airlines A330-243

Postby Fuzznoggin » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:48 am

A lot of work, but the results will be fantastic! Looking forward to seeing more :)
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