Global Scale Modeller

So while my Spitfire is curing, I'm starting on a new project.

Can't believe this is the first thread in the civil aircraft part of the forum.

Anyways, here is some pictures right after opening the box:



A nice decal sheet. Many small decals, will surely take a while before getting all these down on the model.



And last a shot of the two fuselage parts cut away from the sprue, cleaned from flash and attachment point. It is probably the biggest model I've done to date.



This will be a fun project, but will require quite an amount of cleanup since there are huge flakes of flash on some of the parts. Tomorrow I will start the build itself.

It's the very first civil aircraft indeed!
I'm curious about this project and will looking forward to the continuing process ...

Leading the way.

Will be watching your build dude.

This looks like it will be a nice build I have a few of the 1/144 civilian kits looking forward to doing them

You popped the cherry

Cool... Consider me glued
I'll be watch in' this one. I've never seen a civi plane build before.

Major flash on the kit parts. Cleanup will take its time on this one and a huge seam where the fuselage goes together.

Tamiya Extra Thin welded the part together nicely, but sanding and filling will be necessary.



Hokus Pocus, seam be gone!.



I'm getting quite good at sanding.

Nice start dude, look forward to seeing it progress

The first!?! I had better get my heracles started.

Maybe have a civil SIG GB?

Looking good

Nice work so far

Looks good so far.. The 747 is probably the only airliner I can guarantee to recognize.. just don't ask me about the sub types..

That sure is gonna be large but then again, the 747 is one of the largest planes in the world. Good luck with that bird

Mike

Awesome. Its nice to see I'm not the only one who builds civil aircraft

RobertA wrote:Looks good so far.. The 747 is probably the only airliner I can guarantee to recognize.. just don't ask me about the sub types..

You don't need to worry about the sub types. There are only two. 747-200 and the 747-400. The latter is the newer. My dad flies them for British Airways.

ScaleModelling1105 wrote:

RobertA wrote:Looks good so far.. The 747 is probably the only airliner I can guarantee to recognize.. just don't ask me about the sub types..

You don't need to worry about the sub types. There are only two. 747-200 and the 747-400. The latter is the newer. My dad flies them for British Airways.

And long may he continue to do so.. they are magnificent birds! Quite beautiful.. have an air of grace about them that the more modern airliners do not..

..but that's enough waffle! Thanks for the info, learnt something new and that's never a bad thing..

ScaleModelling1105 wrote:

RobertA wrote:Looks good so far.. The 747 is probably the only airliner I can guarantee to recognize.. just don't ask me about the sub types..

You don't need to worry about the sub types. There are only two. 747-200 and the 747-400. The latter is the newer. My dad flies them for British Airways.

This will be a sweet build imo. Nice job so far.

At the risk of being "that guy" there are 5 variants.
747-SP, -400, VC25, E-4 the new -8.
Sorry to hijack and nitpick

Marty wrote:

ScaleModelling1105 wrote:

RobertA wrote:Looks good so far.. The 747 is probably the only airliner I can guarantee to recognize.. just don't ask me about the sub types..

You don't need to worry about the sub types. There are only two. 747-200 and the 747-400. The latter is the newer. My dad flies them for British Airways.

This will be a sweet build imo. Nice job so far.

At the risk of being "that guy" there are 5 variants.
747-SP, -400, VC25, E-4 the new -8.
Sorry to hijack and nitpick

Gasp...

you made the seam disappear like magic, this build is a subject i want to see how it goes together, had a few issues with Revell myself so im waiting to see how things pan-out.

Tom

Nice progress so far! Just like racing cars, the sink or swim moment for civilian vessels always seem to be the decaling. So im really looking forward to see how you tackle that one (the decaling sheet looked quite daunting, imo ).

P.S. Always nice to see a fellow swede building away! Ha det gott! D.S.

Wow, I'm impressed with the sanding. Great work so far.

My dad flies them for British Airways.

Does he...couple of BA 747-400 pilots are mates of mine...couldn't be could it?

Mind you looking at the size of their -400 fleet the chances are slim.