This
is my first completed airliner kit; I built it OOB. I used to work
for US Airways and wanted to build one of their planes. It is painted with
Testors' Model Master acrylics Insignia Blue for the top color and Testors'
Canadian Voodoo Grey for the rest of the fuselage. The leading edges
of the wings, horizontal stabs, tail and around the engines was done
with Alclad aluminum. I applied Future wax in preparation for the
decals and finished with Testors' dullcote as a final finish. You
can't really tell in the pictures, but I weathered the wings and horizontal
stabs using watercolor paints to bring out panel lines and show some
weathering from flight.
The
decals don't fit well; they don't meet at the ends and don't line up with
the engraved doors and escape window outlines. You're better off
filling them in and eyeballing the decals. I touched up the ends
with my toothpick paintbrush. I didn't apply the tail decals for the
red/white stripes, I painted them on; first the white then masking and
applying Insignia Red to the top. There are no cockpit window
decals; I used sharpie markers to do the cockpit windows in black, then
outlining in silver.
This
was a fun project and turned out fairly well, I look forward to finishing
the 1/144 Minicraft MD-80 using my experience with their 737. Airliners.net was a great source of photographic information on the 737 as
well as US Airways planes.
Max
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