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A quick build of perhaps my favorite DC-3 livery ever, Trans Australia Airlines' "Sunbird Service" which connected to Papua, New Guinea from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. Build was straight out of the box, with slightly modified exhausts and the addition of suitable aerials, and decals were homemade.
Hope you enjoy.
Greg
George Lewis:
Would never by looking at that it has a wingspan of less than 8 inches. Damn that's nice. What kit is it?
Edit: DOH! Just looked at the thread title.
Marc
Boy, that looks great!
I have three of those kits to build, with different airline logos. Hope mine come out that nice!
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
That is so cool
great job on the decals
gotta get on of these love the early passanger planes
Steve
Building the perfect model---just not quite yet
Thanks to all for your kind comments.
Cheers
Nice work ! - DC3/C47 - one of the greatest aircraft ever built.
That looks great! What did you use for the NMF?
Thanks, guys.
Banshee1000 That looks great! What did you use for the NMF?
I used Tamiya XF-16 acrylic flat aluminum, with a Future overcoat. (I usually use enamel for any NM, but I was out.)
Nice work, Greg. I've always liked this livery, but I really want to build a DC-3 in Bush Pilots Airways like I used to see occasionally in Brisbane.
Cheers, Aaron
Aaron Skinner
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FineScale Modeler
Thanks, Aaron. I've got both Qantas and BPA on the "one of these days" list.
I absolutely love the subject and your model Greg. Fantastic work.
Tony
I'm just taking it one GB at a time.
Thank you, Tony.
For all the kit's faults (and they are well-discussed online), it's a fairly easy build. And there are soooo many cool DC-3/C-47 schemes around, 1/144 is the perfect scale to build them in quantity.
The problem is...I keep finding neat new schemes faster than I can get the rest of them in my stash even started.
That goes to the head of the class for sure....
on this one - and yeah, I keep finding schemes that I want to do my -3's in as well!
I tried to build that kit, but got so frustrated trying to clean up the wing root area that I threw it in the garbage. Glad to see someone who pulled it off, maybe I'll try again.
7474 I tried to build that kit, but got so frustrated trying to clean up the wing root area that I threw it in the garbage. Glad to see someone who pulled it off, maybe I'll try again.
It's one of many annoying bits in the kit. When the fuselage was assembled and seams fully dried, I wedeged a length of sprue in at the rear of the gap to spread the wing roots closer to the corresponding wing mating edge. It made cleanup a lot easier.
Yeah, I also put a piece of streched sprue on the aft part of the wing on the bottow where it meets the fuselage. The problem was the wing fillet on the upper portion of the wing. It made me really frustrated, then my cat stepped on it one day, guess it was his way of saying " enough is enough."
Excellent build!
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