Caravelle Completed!

Modeling Subjects Airliners and Civil Aircraft
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Hello all,

I hope everyone is staying healthy and safe inside at their modeling desks. Here is my completed Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle in 1/100 scale. The Caravelle was the first short/medium range jet airliner ever made. The first flight was in 1955 with Scandinavian Air System being one of the first customers. The originals were powered by Rolls Royce Avon Turbojet (yes not fan) engines. The actual plane registered OY-KRD “Ulf Viking” is at the Danish Museum of Science and Technology outside of Copenhagen. I’ve never flown or flown on the Caravelle, but it has always caught my eye with its unique grace and elegant appearance.

The kit itself is a 1961 kit from Revell. The plastic was in great shape. The decals were obviously worn down, but I had decals from another newer kit that I used instead. And with those I scanned them for my personal use and lightened up the blue color for the stripes.

The gloss paints used were Tamiya lacquers and acrylics. The metallic areas of the fuselage and wings were done with Alcald chrome to emulate polished aluminum. The engines were painted with AK Xtreme polished aluminum.

This was my third attempt at the Caravelle. The first two ended up as write-offs due to my “experimentation” with painting techniques, but that’s part of the fun right? Hope you all enjoy. Comments and critiques are always welcome.

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Very nice

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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.

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Beautiful

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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.

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 Never got to fly on one- it was soon superceded by 727 and DC-9.

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Nicely done. She looks so graceful on the stand.

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

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Very nice job. Love the SAS paint job.

John

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Hi!

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

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

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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