My Boeing 787 Project
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 6:11 pmLatest in my collection of sets of Boeings is their 787s. I made the 787-8 a year or two ago using the Revell kit and Richard Warcup decals. Had I known that Jetstar was going to have them I might have waited, but I like the look of LOT airliners. The Revell kit is very nice but I was confused by the engines which are very detailed but lacked the central hot section. As a result of this I got the thing all wrong and had to consign one of the two engines to the rubbish bin. To resolve this problem I bought another 787-8 kit, this time the Zvezda kit, and used one of the engines from that kit to complete this model. Painting is very straight forward, white all over.
Sooner or later, I reckoned, somebody would release a conversion kit to upgrade the 787-8 to a 787-9, and so they did. It comprised little more than the plugs to lengthen the fuselage. At the same time that I ordered those parts I also ordered new engines to replace the one that I had ruined and the new Air New Zealand 787-9 decals from Oldmodels. With all these lovely bits and pieces and the Zvezda kit I manufactured a 787-9. It took a lot longer than it should have because, along the way, I made every mistake in the book. Even your novice modeller could not make some of the mistakes that I made. I'd reckon that the Zvezda kit, while not being quite as detailed at the Revell kit, is a little easier to make. Mainly this is due to the wing/fuselage joint arrangement which is better on the Russian kit. Painting is very straight forward all over.
Since the 787-10 isn't scheduled to enter service until 2018 or thereabouts it will be a long time before I have to add one of them to my set.
Sooner or later, I reckoned, somebody would release a conversion kit to upgrade the 787-8 to a 787-9, and so they did. It comprised little more than the plugs to lengthen the fuselage. At the same time that I ordered those parts I also ordered new engines to replace the one that I had ruined and the new Air New Zealand 787-9 decals from Oldmodels. With all these lovely bits and pieces and the Zvezda kit I manufactured a 787-9. It took a lot longer than it should have because, along the way, I made every mistake in the book. Even your novice modeller could not make some of the mistakes that I made. I'd reckon that the Zvezda kit, while not being quite as detailed at the Revell kit, is a little easier to make. Mainly this is due to the wing/fuselage joint arrangement which is better on the Russian kit. Painting is very straight forward all over.
Since the 787-10 isn't scheduled to enter service until 2018 or thereabouts it will be a long time before I have to add one of them to my set.
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