What's a good 747 in Lufthansa livery?

Unfortunately the Hasegawa kit is the only one on the market, unless you want to buy a Hogan. I started one (Kalitta Air 747-400 for my dad), thought it was me, then started to build another and again, a step in the fuselage at nearly the same spots. I did manage to cleanly build the wings without much clean up work, and to prevent the fuselage from cracking I poured in some Bob Smith’s (?) slow cure epoxy. 

BTW, Lufthansa did just reveal their new livery.

I got the 1/200 Hasegawa 747 with Lufthansa decals, and I'm really not impressed with the fit quality, so it's getting a fair amount of sanding on those fuselage seams. I don't think I'll rescribe it, but I'll beat it into submission I hope.

-BD-

There's some 1/200 out there.  Not as much as 1/144, but some.

More Petite than 1/144 ? Where can you find that ?

Tanker - Builder

It's about 1/32 in size

Egads, a 1/32 747 would be a six foot wingspan.  Poor fellow was looking for more petite than 1/144

Hmmm;

 I was going to suggest a card model . You may not want to go that way .It's about 1/32 in size . Made by Schreiber of Germany .

I've got the Revel Of Germany 747-8 in Lufthansa livery (kit# 04276) at 1:144 scale in the stash. Haven't built it yet, but I have built the older E-4B from the same company (which is a converted 747-200, with a mold date of 1983), and, although it needs a LOT of putty and sanding along the seams, it builds up pretty nice. The 747-8 has a mold date of 2012, so I would think that it's fit would be a lot better than the E-4B. At 1:144, though, it's BIG model when it's finished. 

Gary Mason

Draw decals are fantastic but require care - they are super thin but lay down really nice.  For small airliners I really like 1:200 scale. 

Poke around - and see if you can find a Hasegawa 1:200 747, I know they did one for the space shuttle orbiter so there's probably a stand alone kit.

I've done 3 or 4 airliners and am really starting to enjoy them.  Like you I do a lot of millitary aircraft.  I'm not really concerned about the details in this scale so I focus on cleaning up the tiny seems and putting a nice gloss coat down - like future.  Maybe not scale but makes a nice display model.

I've used the decaldraw decals. Excelent decals but very thin and therefore prone to breaking or curling on themselves. Take care with them if you go that route.

Thanks! I didn't see Hasegawa on Spruebrothers or Scale Hobbyist, so I didn't know they made them. Should have refined my eBay searches more, because when I looked just now, I found one for $18, and it even has the Lufthansa livery!

I'll check the decals though, and if they don't look so great, I'll pick up that sheet.

Thanks again!

-BD-

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Here's the decals. Hasegawa made a,1/200 747