Revell 737-800

[Dave Swindell]

Nah, you tweaked my curiosity to see If I could improve some more.

But not as awful as the unmodified Revell ones;

I'll hang them on the 737 this evening,

John

Yep, that looks better than the first attempt, and much better than Revell's. Your first attempt photo's made the intake look much bigger than the Revell one, but seeing this photo it must have been a trick of the camera angle.

Dave

[bexwh773]

John, Dave,

Thank you so much for taking the time to go through fixing the Revell engines to make them look right

Bexy

[richellis]

Mods, can we make it sticky?

Or have a shorter how-to with pics done for a sticky?

[bexwh773]

Mods, can we make it sticky?

Or have a shorter how-to with pics done for a sticky?

Bexy

P.S: Rich couldnt resist the temptation!!!!

[richellis]

tired and stressed OK!

[Viking]

Yep, that looks better than the first attempt, and much better than Revell's. Your first attempt photo's made the intake look much bigger than the Revell one, but seeing this photo it must have been a trick of the camera angle.

Dave

Hi Dave,

Yes I think it was the camera, I had it on macofocus to stop it blurring, and it seemed to make the nearer intake look much bigger than the one behind. Which is why on the latest photo I reveresed the positions of the 2 engines. The daimeters are the same as I stuck my plastic ring on the original cowling and then sanded it down to match.

Cheers,

John

[Viking]

All done now. The engines are on so I'm calling it finished.

I'll post some more on 'Ready for Inspection'. Got to try and show the rest of the modeling community that airliners make nice subjects!

Heres a couple for now.

Cheers,

John

[richellis]

nice!

[madaboutmodels]

well done

[RICHW]

Hi

i have come up with a slightly different way of modifying the engines

first i found an off cut of plastic PVC tube 3/8" at work i cut a small ring off this with a stanley knife then cut a small bit off as seen in the picture below

i then put this upto the revell engine and marked where i had to cut the existing ring thats provided with the revell engine in order for this bit of tube to fit correctly

the section marked in black was cut off

the piece cut out of the existing ring provided by revell

i then glued on the small bit of PVC pipe where i had cut out i made the pipe slightly wider the the revell ring so i could sand it back flush

the front of the intake as it looks now after modifcation

the modified engine next to the revell engine i need to do this one now and also need to fill the new engine and sand it back

Richard

[rhusberg]

Hi John,

That's an lovely model ! and thanks for sharing with us the ways to correct

the Revell engines. It looks like corrected injectionmoulded engines should

be made available by someone, like Braz did with the Carvair fuselage etc.

When thinking about how many of those models we all have together, there

should surely be a market for it, and they should be cheaper than resin parts.

May I ask how you liked the decals as it's the first model I have seen with

them beeing used on.

Happy modelling,

Ruben

www.lndecals.com

[Viking]

Hi Ruben,

Corrected injection moulded engines would be nice, I agree.

The decals were beautiful, really good. the instructions are excellent, they decals themselves went on very easily, the colour density is perfect (i.e the white 'Norwegian' logos overe the red) with no colour bleed.

The Edvard Grieg picture on the tail is incredible, its just like a photograph. I'd say these are among the very best decals you can get, alomg with Twosix's.

Cheers,

John

[Kev1n]

All done now. The engines are on so I'm calling it finished.

after doing such a stunning job with the rest of the model and then all that work correcting the engines as well....

the join between pylons and wing is very untidy; wouldnt a bit of extra filling and careful sanding fix that?

to be really honest, that join spoils the model

[richellis]

and just who do you think you are?

Are your models perfect?

[Mike]

after doing such a stunning job with the rest of the model and then all that work correcting the engines as well....

the join between pylons and wing is very untidy; wouldnt a bit of extra filling and careful sanding fix that?

to be really honest, that join spoils the model

Wow Kevin... that comes over as rather arrogant. You might want to edit your post there.

[stringbag]

Wow Kevin... that comes over as rather arrogant. You might want to edit your post there.

Better spend a day and amend some of the others as well whilst you're at it.

You're not winning many friends with posts like this one Matey.

Chris.

Edited August 13, 2011 by stringbag

[Viking]

the join between pylons and wing is very untidy

A rough mounting? been a while since I had one of those

Cheers,

John

[richellis]

Better spend a day and amend some of the others as well whilst you're at it.

You're not winning many friends with posts like this one Matey.

Chris.

good advice

[Kev1n]

I did say it was a good model - apart from the join on the pylons.

and all I did was offer an honest opinion.

No Rich my models arent perfect and I'm happy to get some honest criticism of mine where it's needed - it's how I learn

Whats the point in saying something is great when it isnt?

If there is something wrong I dont see any problem with saying so, provided it's said in a reasonable way

[richellis]

If there is something wrong I dont see any problem with saying so, provided it's said in a reasonable way

The whole point is people are finding you arrogant. As my mum always says, If you dont have anything nice to say.....

[Kev1n]

well I dont mean to be or to sound like I am

and I did describe Viking's model as stunning - which it is.

Apart from the join of the pylons.

If trying to suggest where somebody can make an improvement is upsetting then sorry.

I'm just trying to be constructive

[richellis]

people just dont want to hear your arrogant nit picking comments.

As I said, maybe if you dont have anything nice to say, keep your fingers off the keys. Its not just this topic that this has happened.

As an aside, the critique corner is there for that sort of thing.

Should have thought the nudge off a mod would have given you the message?

[PMG Offramp]

[RICHW]

done a bit more to the engines today

filled the bottom and re scribed the original markings back on

heres the nearly finished engine i just need to tak it to work with me tommorow and run the deburrer arround the bottom and respray it

Richard

[Kev1n]

after doing such a stunning job with the rest of the model and then all that work correcting the engines as well....

Rich - above is a quote - from me; I said "a stunning job"

which it is.

Viking's model is by any standards pretty awesome.

With one minor reservation - if you call that nitpicking thats your privelage

I disagree with you so we'll have to agree to differ

I'm not going to argue with you over it, especially in somebody else's topic, if you want to discuss it some more, pm me and I'll happily talk about so we can resolve it between the two of us.

Viking - sorry. You did a good job with the model and I do like it, very much as it happens and your engine work is brilliant and a big help to me.

I still think a bit more work on the pylons would make it even better so I hope you took my comment as I meant it

PMG - got any popcorn left?