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  • Member since
    September 2011
Visible interior
Posted by egymodler on Sunday, June 2, 2024 2:28 AM

Hi,

Back to modeling after decades, dreaming of an airliner model with detailed visible passengers and seats.

cheked the Revell Airbus 380 & interior kit ,  Dragon 747 Airchina, Hawk Comet , all were in 1/144 scale. Which one  of those models have the most detailed interior to fulfil my dream of building a display model similar to those used to be displayed in front of airline  office.in good old days.

Appereciate suggessions, Thanks a lot.

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Monday, June 3, 2024 6:56 AM

Hi egymodler:

    Listen, I seem to remember REVELL had an L-1011 airliner that had a full interior too!

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Monday, June 3, 2024 10:08 AM

No idea if it's still available or not, but Revell famously did a 'cutaway' 747 in 1/144 donkeys' years ago. More info HERE.

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by keavdog on Monday, June 3, 2024 12:23 PM

I don't know about the interior but I did the Revell A380 a couple years ago and it was a very nice kit.

 

And a video showing the interior.  A little chunky but it is 1/144 scale.

https://youtu.be/E_9KP96D0cg

 

Now this looks very interesting!!!

https://www.rocastmodels.com/2024/05/30/b787-release-date/

 

Thanks,

John

  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Monday, June 3, 2024 2:45 PM

Hello!

My brother built the A380 many years ago... It's a nice kit but the interior is nothing to write home about:

A380 with interior

And I believe it's still the best of the options mentioned above.

I guess there are too little modellers willing to build a detailed airliner interior for a kit to come... Your next best hope is 3D printing - with that you can do a really nice cabin if you wanted to and you get to call which aircraft it is going to be...

Good luck with your projects and have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

www.vietnam.net.pl

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Sunday, June 9, 2024 10:53 AM

Pawel!

       Now you know where I got the idea to do ship and boat cutaways. when I was but a beginning modeler, there was a travel office I used to walk and bike past on my way to school. They had a few ships and one or two smaller coastal types that were cutaways.

        The one that caught my eye the most was a Cutaway of the S.S.United States.OOOh that was neat! I would stand there and just stare at it drinking in the details. One day a nice lady came out and asked me what had me so fascinated. When I told her, she had me sit at her desk. Then she went in the back.I was looking at all the posters for those beachy getaways on them when she came back with a box.

         If you'll build this for us I will get you a nice one in return. You could've knocked my socks off! It was the old "Pyro" kit of the American President liner, Of which they had none but Photos. I put it on the back bike reck and made  beeline for the HobbyShop. I needed to get the right paint.I only had the basic little bottle"Testors" set. You know, the eight basic colors and a brush that looked like it came out of the garbage instead of being new.

       All the lady told me was Put it on a board with it looking like it was in water. Aha I get to keep part of it! Well, the Hobby Shop manager helped me get some good brushes and the right paint. Then he told me how to make that base. He even had the kind of supplies so I could make the base.  I took it back in two weeks, and I thought it looked good. The lady that gave it to me wasn't there. She had gotten fired for doing that! The New lady(Very strict looking) called a guy out of the back. He came out and she pointed to the model."Well, Do We ,or not"? He looked the model over and simply said, "Call Laurel back", She was right" .

        I then got a model that I had never seen before. It seemed to be the old "Pyro: S.S. United States" This was a rare model even then. I don't think even one whole truckload of them had ever been made. It wasn't the Pyro kit for sure! Simply because it was a "Travel Agency Cutaway" To be built by a skilled modeler only! For use in travel Agency viewing areas!" It was,  i am assuming a plasticy Resin, weighed about seven pounds and had a lot of flat sheets of some brass looking parts and A whole Book on what colors were to be used for what areas and the other spaces! Never heard of the company!

         I real quick beat feet away from there in case they changed their minds. I didn't go back there till one christmas when everything was decorated in t eh windows. Miss Laurel was there! Gave me a big hug and asked if I got the ship she had ordered for me. I told her yes and she seemed so glad, Then someone came in and wanted to book a vacation. I never saw her again and the agency closed two years later. The Ship dissappeared from what had been my room while I was in service. I never saw it again either! I guess, that back then even, that ship cost a couple hundred bucks! No wonder then, that she got in trouble!

          That was in the fifties. and I still enjoy the odd cutaway now and then, even those with clear Bodies, Hulls or Fuselages. Oh, so much detail can go there. And chotskes galore!

  • Member since
    March 2022
  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Sunday, July 14, 2024 8:41 AM

It is pretty easy to add cabin seats to smaller scale (144 and even 72) with stock angle beams.  I chop them to width, chop rectangular rod for seat mount.  Sometimes I have to ad strips for floor, but that can be pretty primitive if you paint it ma dark rug color.

 

  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Monday, July 15, 2024 10:07 AM

As Tanker-Builder said, realistically you're not going to be able to see much with a closed-fuselage model.

 

I was all revved to fully detail the interior of my first airliner ... until I started doing battle with the thick clear plastic windows ... tried Crystal Clear for windows, that was no damn good either ... finally saw the light and used the black decal windows which in 1/144 scale, is the only sane thing to do.

  • Member since
    March 2022
  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:37 AM

mfsob

As Tanker-Builder said, realistically you're not going to be able to see much with a closed-fuselage model.

 

I was all revved to fully detail the interior of my first airliner ... until I started doing battle with the thick clear plastic windows ... tried Crystal Clear for windows, that was no damn good either ... finally saw the light and used the black decal windows which in 1/144 scale, is the only sane thing to do.

 

clear decal strips make decent windows applied after all painting is done.

 

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