Well it seems that I like to jump from format to format but I now want to start modeling airliners from my youth. The big 70’s era of jets and some older like BAc 111, 707 and convair 880 I have collected some great kits to start but lookig for tips used by folks that like to model airliners or any tips, books or advice you have??? thanks in advance.
I’ve been modeling airliners for several years and my first advice would be to get some experience using simple but still very good kits such as those marketed by Hasegawa in 1/200. They are so well enginered that major sub-assemblies can be built, painted, decalled, weathered separately, then assembled (with wood glue for instance) prior to final weathering and detailing (pitots,…).
They have only a few ‘older’ airliners though, such as the DC-9-41, the DC-10, the Tristar, the 727-200, 737-200 and 747-200, but you will get much less frustration that going straight to older, less well designed kits such as Airfix (who have the BAC 111, Trident, Comet,…).
Academy have a decent 707 in 1/144, but I have not built that kit yet and those I have appear to be much more complicated than the Hasegawa offerings. Academy also market many of the older airliners you seem to be interested in. Revell-Germany have, I think the top of the range in 1/144 (modern) airliners kits.