Completed Aircraft

[richellis]

Hi,

pop you finished builds here!

[woody37]

DC10-30 Laker Airways

She's now done, just added the little fins and beefed up the weathering underneath. Altogether, not a bad kit. What I did like was the reinforcing plates (3 off) that prevent the fuselage profile from being squashed during handling. I have a few models where this has cracked the paint and filler doing this.

The paint was my usual Revell SM371 for the light grey bits, Halfords Appliance white for the white and Humbrol No.1 for the corrguard areas. I'm now debating whether I have the time and motivation to crack on with the Revell 747-200 that Andy Airfix swapped with me as I have a super set of BOAC decals awaiting it ! My main dilema with this kit will be to make the decision of whether to fit it to a stand or sit on its wheels. Anyway, here she is...

Laker squadron - 707 138 & DC10-30

Edited October 11, 2010 by richellis

[richellis]

Bugger, you beat me to the first finished!

nice build. I must do a Laker liner!

[richellis]

OK, Build number 1 finished,

Iraqi Airways Boeing 727 YI-AGR. This build came about as I got a set of decals of the decal Bank as my Uncle used to fly for Iraqi before the first Gulf war, and this was an aircraft that he flew.

Pics,

Had a go at weathering it, a mix of watered down acrylic artist paint, black powder and a very watered down sandy colour paint to try and give it the sandy dusty look that Iraqi aircraft always seamed to have!

Will be doing a base for it, and should bring it along to the show in Sutton in sept. I hope airfix will have sent the missing part by then!

Edited October 11, 2010 by richellis

[woody37]

Looks great Rich, unusual and inspiring scheme well presented.

[Milo Black]

Handley Page HP42W (HP45) "Heracles". Airfix A03172 1/144.

Operated by Imperial Airways 1931-1939. Passenger Capacity: 38. Cruising speed: 87kt.

Build Thread is here

[richellis]

Very nice, old and unusual!

[Antony Robertson]

Some superb builds here, i really must start mine!

Antony

[Milo Black]

Zvezda Ilyushin IL-86, 1/144, Aeroflot

There is some gentle weathering on this, but doesn't really show on these photos - I might get the chance to take some better ones in natural light at the weekend.

[richellis]

Very nice!

[CliffB]

Ford Model 5-AT Trimotor NC9654

Lloyd Aereo Boliviano - September 1932.

(1/72 Airfix kit with Blue Rider decals)

Build thread is here

Thanks for your support and interest.

Cliff

Edited October 3, 2010 by CliffB

[woody37]

Gorgeous, I was watching 'Massive Engines' the other day with Chris Barrie and he flies on one. A real piece of heritage excellently portrayed, another completed gem.

[Dave Swindell]

Here's the Origami Concorde

 

Build Thread Here

[Doug Rogers]

Dougs' Airfix 1/144 Airfix Sud Aviation Caravelle.

Link to build : http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...mp;#entry584046

Hope you like it.

Edited September 2, 2010 by Doug Rogers

[Micha]

Tupolev Tu-134 "Interflug" in 1:144 (AZmodel)

Edit on Sept. 6th:

I've made some fine tuning.

Please take a look at the cockpit (longer black curved surface) and the antenna block on the upper tail section.

Edit end.

And this is my previous text:

The decals did not fit exactly ... so some extra paint work was needed.

EDIT < old images removed > /EDIT

The original DDR-SCF:

Edited September 6, 2010 by Micha

[Micha]

[Doug Rogers]

Dougs' Boeing 314 Clipper in 1/144 scale by Minicraft.

Hope you like it as much as I do!

Edited September 29, 2010 by Doug Rogers

[Prenton]

Doug

That's a GREAT base!

Gonna be difficult to match that.

Philip

Edited October 2, 2010 by Prenton

[keefr22]

Here's my completed Aer Lingus Connie, the Revell 1/144 kit, depicting N1009C on lease from Seaboard & Western Airlines, as she apparently looked on the inaugral flight from Dublin to New York on 28-4-1958(when I was a year & three months old, so I don't actually remember it!!)

Build thread, for what it's worth is here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=52370

On with the pics;

Thanks for running the group build, Rich & Antony, it's been fun & there have been some cracking builds here!!

Bestest

Keef

[mitchem]

Air Rhodesia Boeing 720 - VP-YNC Mashonaland

Welsh Models kit in 1/144

Landed just after my club-mate's Connie from Dublin....

Build thread here

Edited October 2, 2010 by mitchem

[Milo Black]

Airbus A380, Revell 1/144, Emirates decals from TwoSix

... and my three builds all together - A380, IL-86 and HP42, all at 1/144.

[Mark]

This is the Revell 1/144th Airbus A319, strictly out of the box, with the addition of the Two-Six decals representing EC-KKS, Airbus MSN 3320, and painted in the 'Retro' Iberia scheme.

Thanks for looking!

This model started life as a 1/144th Revell A330-300 in the Airbus 'House Colours' boxing. The addition of the Bra.Z tailfin and stabilisers, along with 'cutting and shunting' the fuselage converted the kit to an A330-200. The decals are by Brazil Decals and this particular model represent A6-EAE, Airbus MSN 384, as she appeared just prior to the addition of the revised scheme incorporating the 'www.emirates.com' script below the main Emirates title.

Thanks for looking!!

Well, where do I begin with this one? She started life (seemingly ages ago!) as the Austrian Airlines boxing of the 1/144th Revell A340-300. But then along came Bra.Z and their A340-600 conversion set combined with Draw Decals' Virgin Atlantic decal sheet. I do not know how many hours were spent doing this conversion, but the build thread is over here along with some shots and ramblings regarding the other builds too. With just two hours to go, she's finished.

Thanks for looking!!

[richellis]

Ok. Im going to be hard but no more!

Any finished builds that are before this post will be able to enter the final vote.

If you have an aircraft PM me a link to your favorite pic and I can do a voting thread!

Feel free to keep putting finished builds below!