1/48 Monogram DC-3

Gallery Article by Björn Bäcklund on June 6 2014

Sweden National Day 

 

What is big and orange?

I guess that some of you thought about a Braniff Boeing 747 but the answer is a Monogram  1/48 scale DC-3. I built mine as a Swedish plane in WW2 neutrality paint. It was used by AB Aerotransport (ABA) and was shot down in 1943.

During my 40 years of modelling I never finished a 1/48 scale plane but this time I finally made it.

 

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I sanded down the raised panel lines and replaced them with a rivet pattern. It is awfully big when you are used to 1/72 tanks and planes. It hardly fits in my paint box. I painted it in Testors #4682 International orange. I then cut masks for the registration letters from masking tape and painted the letters black.

I decided to modify the landing gear to something that look like a pre war DC-3 gear. I also added resin engines as the ones in the kit were a bit simple.

Björn Bäcklund

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