HI:
I’m building a Cathay Pacific 747-400 model. I would like to build this model with the flaps in the downward position. Any body have any techniques? Tripple slotted flaps are used on the 747. I’m using the Hasegawa 1/200 747-400 kit. Thanks
Contrail in England produce (or used to anyway!) strips of plastic in airfoil sections. I used those on my ‘everything down’ airliners. It was quite helphul but it still required lots of work, shaping and sanding…
I also have to say that for the 747, several bits, particularly the middle flaps in each triple slotted unit, will still require scratchbuilding because the Contrail strips are not that wide…!
All in all, I realise my comment is not THAT helpful, but that’s the only thing I could come up with!
Good luck.
Hi:
Do you have any contact info for Contrail? THX.
Jonas
Dear Jonas,
by the looks of it, Contrail have disappeared from the face of the Earth… I’m sure someone here in the UK have taken over their range of struts and other profiled plastic bits. It could take me several weeks to find out though. If you want, I could send you a pack. I had built up a reasonable stock of the things and I can easily part with a pack. I’d need your postal address though.
As I said, the stuff will be useful for most airliners, particularly the smaller jets. 747 will still require some scratch or other method of obtaining flaps that are wide enough…
My e-mail address is djmodels1999@aol.com
Sincerely,
Domi
Jonas,
Did you ever finish the 747?
There is another forum (right below this one in the grouping of FSM forums) for civil aircraft and airliners. There was a thread recently started with a member showing his airliner (forget which one) with flaps deployed. It was beautiful. I suggest you hunt down that thread in that forum for ideas.