1/144 Revell Singapore Airlines Airbus A380-800 (9V-SKA)

Gallery Article by David C S Teo on Dec 23 2011

 

Hi Everyone,
Merry Christmas, Compliments of the season and Happy New Year 2012 from tropical Singapore!!
 
I am sure that you have seen several submissions of the giant Revell A380 model and here is my submission done in the livery of the first launch customer of the A380: Singapore Airlines and it represents the the first commercial flight of the A380 for Singapore Airlines (and in the world), as 9V-SKA, began its first flight on 25 Oct 2007 after months of delays from the Airbus production facilities.  I have heard from unconfirmed sources within Singapore Airlines that Airbus Industrie had to compensate the airline for the delay in the form of heavily reduced purchase prices of their Airbus A330s currently in service with the airline......

 

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The Revell kit is of superb quality, detail and a monster compared with other jet airliners produced and as I looked at the wing and fuselage halves, I knew I had to prepare for more bottles of paint to airbrush the wings and tailplane.  Construction of the kit went smoothly with CA glue with some challenges at the landing gear section.  Lots of Tamiya masking tape was used to mask the corrogard panels on the top of the wings.  The cabin windows provided in the kit had to be filled with putty in order for the cabin window decals and the Singapore Airlines livery to be applied seamlessly on the double-decked fuselage. Decals used were Two Six decals purchased from the UK: http://www.twosixdecals.co.uk/epages/62035508.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62035508/Products/144-380 and carefully applied with lots of reference to pictures of the actual aircraft from airliners.net. The Two-six decals are wonderful, accurately produced and went on smoothly onto the kit ..highly recommended.

Spray painting the kit took longer than usual as the 144th scale A380 is a large plane!  Once the decals were applied, the landing gear was attached and the model was epoxied to a custom made wooden stand and top coated with Tamiya Super Gloss cote to protect the paintwork and the decals. Once the top coat was dried, the model was epoxied mounted onto the showcase.
 
Hope you enjoy my artwork and the pics!
 
Best Regards,

David C S Teo

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Photos and text © by David C S Teo