Just finished my Revell 1:144 Connie. I had intended to do a WIP, but decided to try an article for a magazine. With all the photo taking and stuff for an article, I just did not have time to do the online WIP. Model now is complete- here are a couple of shots, maybe more in a couple of days when I figure out which shots to send with manuscript and which are pass-bys.
Kit lived up to its fine reputation I had heard about previously. Nice crisp molding and the fit was super. I used a miniscule amount of putty. Fit was so close on outboard vertical stabs/rudders to horizontal surfaces I did not bother to even glue them- a press-fit was adequate, as if it were a snap-tite. Detail is great, especially the landing gear and doors- far nicer than usually found on 1:144 models!
Sorry the pictures are so dark. I just took them this morning, eighteen of them, and have not had a chance to run them through photoshop. Will repost when I get them doctored up a bit.
Turns out I forgot an antenna and a beacon light on top of the fuselage. So need to reshoot all the pictures! I’ll be doing that today. There were a couple under the nose too. If it had just been the ones under the nose, I’d probably have let them go, but the stuff on top of the fuselage is quite visible, so got them on yesterday.
I was surprised that the real conny is not quite as large as one would expect it to be, there is one at the airfield I work being restored for a meseum display,
Looks great already. Good luck on the magazine article. Would love to see the new pictures when they are done. There are so few civilian models, it’s always nice to see one done.
Think I’ve got it now. Put on the antenna and position light, shot 16 pix, and as I finished and picked up the model to put it back on shelf, I realized I had not put the tip tanks yet. So got those on, and shot another 16!
The Lockheed Constellation and the Bugatti 100, two of the most beautiful airplanes ever built. Don, I have an old Monogram kit of this airplane and I have a Heller 1/72 scale L-749 Constellation. Not sure when I’ll get to either of them, but I’d like to do the Heller kit as a M.A.T.S. transport when I get around to it. Your builds are always so well done. I especially admire your Bell P-59 you built a while back. You know, it just might be the lighting, but are the wings and the underside black or dark blue?
I think I can speak to this for Don . All the Connies in that livery were natural metal on the wings and underside . I actually got to passenger in one on a flight to California when I was a medium sized " Little tad "
I used Alclad. I have done a plane in the new Vallejo stuff, just to prove to myself that if paint goes all acrylic, I can still do NMF, but I will use Alclad as long as it is available.
