Okay, here are some photos of the Revell Cutaway next to my professionally built resin 1/100 Pan Am/TWA 707 and a 1/144 Air Force One cutaway and a picture of an Eastern Airlines L-1011 magazine ad that I have in my “remote office” in the dining room at home.
Yes, the Entex/Doyusha kits are expensive (and have inaccuracies) but I feel that the larger 1/100 version will make the cabin interior stand out more. Reference the interior of the 1/144 Air Force One in the photo. Bear in mind that this won’t be the next model that I build, but it’s always in the back of my head. I see that since I returned to model kits after decades that LED lighting is a big thing in modeling. As such, I want to have this L-1011 when I build it have interior lighting along with navigational lights, etc., stuff that I’m still researching and learning how to do. The intent is to do the model in PSA livery as they were the airline that did use the L-1011 Lower Deck Lounge option. This is easier to be done in 1/100 scale and will also display better. When everything is said and done, this model will cost me a few hundred dollars, but it’s something I want to do. Basically, my goal is to get a more manageable version of the 1/35 display at the TWA Museum so I can have my own cutaway like I saw in travel agent offices growing up in the 70s without spending thousands to get one whenever one shows up for sale.
Some more internet images:
Looking at the 2-4-2 seating on the 1/144 scale kit, you can see that they are box shaped with a very straight vertical back with no curve.
Here is photo I retrieved on the internet of the 1/144 L-1011 seating that a modeler used for his custom cutaway model of a KLM DC-10. Once the seats are painted and detailed, the vertical back isn’t as pronounced.
At the 1/144 scale it won’t be noticeable and I’m willing to forgive it at the 1/100 scale where it will be more evident, but that’s why I’ve been tempted at the curved seats of the 1/96 Caravelle that I bought. They don't match the 1970's seating but hmmmm...
I purchased the Caravelle to build outright, but as I mentioned earlier, am thinking of buying a few more and using it to populate the seats for the L-1011 cabin. As it comes in a 3+2 format, what would be an easy adaption for me to cut a seating deck in two lengthwise and have the 2-seat pods adjacent to each other. Here is another internet photo.
Pawel, what I might do is get scale measurements from the 1/35 TWA model seats, scale them down to 1/100 and send you something that way. If I don’t go with that route, I’m sure that if you do put them on your Shapeways store as 3D 2-pods and 3-pods that they will be snapped up.