Hello all,
Here is my L1011 in classic Delta livery! Overall it was a fun build, but it took quite a bit of fixing/sanding/scrubbing/etc. I’m finding out that’s just par for the course.
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The kit was mostly from Airfix but I used the engines from an Eastern Express kit. Scale is 1/144. The insides of the wings were reinforced with thin metal wire and a mixture of slo-zap and acrylic nail (cosmetic nail) powder. Thanks to Paul Budzik and his Scale Model Workshop for this idea. I have no access to dental powder but the nail powder seems to have done a decent job for my purpose.
I used plastic sheets to redo all the gear doors in a thinner fashion. All raised panel lines were sanded off and I re-scribed everything. It was my first time doing this and I’m all around happy with it and learned a better feel for future scribing. (less deep lines seem to be better in this scale).
Delta decals are from the eastern express kit and details provided by Nazca. For the paint scheme I only used decals for the widgets and logos. I opted to paint the blue and red stripes instead of using decals. A Nix mini color sensor and some experimentation were used to match paint color to the decal color. I took a snippet of the decal to a copy shop and blew it up several times larger over white paper to get a sample size for the color sensor. I then used Tamiya acrylics. Both blue and red needed a mix of three colors each. I think they turned out fairly close.
The fuselage bottom was primed black gloss followed by Future. I then finished it with AK Xtreme metal chrome. I have yet to find a clear top coat that maintains the full metallic luster so I left it bare However I did a gentle polish with novus #1 and old (clean) t-shirt. Any recommendations for topcoats over AK metal are welcome.
Comments and critique are welcome!
Thanks and Happy Modeling....let’s keep cranking out some more airliners. They’re so pretty