Caravelle Completed!

I can't see pics.

My father was on the UAL team that bought a bunch of them. We were over in France a lot while I was little.

My 1/72 build stalled at the primer stage, but I want to finish it.

Caravelle came along at a period where intermediate high speed routes were becoming important and Lockheed had run into problems with the Electra.

Look forward to pics.

Edit: they just loaded. Lovely! 

Bill

Thank you everyone! It was a fun build for sure. 

Hi!

 Hey ! I have a landing strip above my workbench for jets! Would that Boidy dats so Pwetty pwease land there? Very nice job!

Very nice job.  Love the SAS paint job.

John

The only Caravelle I remember seeing was a derelict in Memphis.  Nice model!

Very nice.  I remember the Caravelle.  Never got to fly on one- it was soon superceded by 727 and DC-9.

Thanks Keavdog! My now on-going experiment will be to see how the Alclad ages since I did not put on any overcoat. I did use novus #1 at the end to clean and give a little protection. I suspect I sprayed on the alclad a little heavier than what seems to be usually recommended (although still low psi-about 15). But I let the material build up a good bit over multiple passes to build up a fairly wet coat. (Masks were burnished and the undercoat was lacquer-based.) It seemed to work well.  Afterwards I gently polished with a clean, dry lint-free cloth to remove the "speckles." Then came a few minimal mists of flat clear and/or dull metallic colors in selected areas to give a little differentiation and weathering appearance. 

I agree we need to see more airliners! Good luck with your 737. My new project is a 747-thinking Iberia 1990s colors. 

Beautiful 

Beautiful job.  Your natural metal work looks fantastic- your experimentation  paid off!  Beautiful airplane.  Ive been doing US manufacturer airlines and one Embraer.  This has me interested at looking at other manufacturers.  We need more airliner builders!  I have a 1/144 737-300 on the bench with Stardust casino livery decals.

Very nice