Interflug IL-62 DM-SEA in 1/100

[Micha]

At the moment I'm working on an Interflug IL-62 in 1/100 by VEB Plasticart GDR. That old set has got some new decals in the past but I don't know when. What I know is why

The DM-SEA was the very first long range jet by the GDR airline Interflug. They got that jet from Russia in April 1970. Just two years later the jet crashed in Wildau (Königs Wusterhausen) near Berlin - just a few kilometers away of my hometown because of a technical malfunction following by a fire on board.

In this case someone had to replace those old decals with the sign DM-SEA by newer decals with the sign DM-SEB. But he forget to take the old decals out of the package, I guess. And now I build the DM-SEA in 1/100 and their old colors and signs.

To see some first photos of the model airplane just take a look at my IL-62 gallery ... > here.

Edited July 19, 2010 by Micha

[Julien]

Looks good,

I look forward to seeing it finished, i have never seen one of these before.

Julien

[Micha]

here she is...

more pictures: http://laue-netz.de/thumbnails.php?album=36

The original DM-SEA: http://www.if-interflug.de/Deutsch/Flotte/Unfall/unfall.html ... R.I.P.

Edited July 19, 2010 by Micha

[FalkeEins]

At the moment I'm working on an Interflug IL-62 in 1/100 by VEB Plasticart GDR.

look forward to it... just reading the very interesting article on this company in Jet & Prop 05/2009 - even in the 80's kits of Dornier types were out (too 'pro-Nazi'), while Junkers was OK since his company had been appropriated by the Nazis...

[keefr22]

That's a really nice model Micha - shows just how well those old VEB kits can build up!

And a very fitting tribute to a sad loss as well...

Keef

[Micha]

look forward to it... just reading the very interesting article on this company in Jet & Prop 05/2009 - even in the 80's kits of Dornier types were out (too 'pro-Nazi'), while Junkers was OK since his company had been appropriated by the Nazis...

yes, you're right ... but for a communist state it's been OK to offer a Boeing 707 in PAN AM colors by VEB Plasticart

I bought that Boeing kit in 1986 for my Dad ... 4 years before the Berlin Wall fell.

[Julien]

That os a stunning build

Well done

Julien

[Micha]

That os a stunning build

Well done

Julien

thanks

If you wanna see an IL-62 then just come to Germany. You can visit some IL-62 on several locations ... one of them is the IL-62 of the Guinness Book of Records which was landed on 900m grass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkl3jGxCKUI