Well it’s took nearly two months but finally I’ve finished this superb model. Firstly a BIG thank you to all at Hannants for their help in finding the closest match for the red & grey, also for providing the Brasildecals, which were also superb.
Well she certainly lives upto her name ‘BIG MOMMA’ here is the A380 next to my B1-b lancer which is also in 1/144.
Well thanks for looking, any comments are always welcomed.
Awesome work! Hopefully I’ll get a chance to see the real one coming in to JFK airport here in New York! (it’s going to be some sight watching this monster fly over the Belt Parkway!)
Great build and paint work, just one question did you paint the wings the fuselage colour? I notice on the the real thing (airliners in general) the wings are usually painted the manufacturer’s grey (Airbus or Boeing), was this over looked or couldn’t you be bothered to do the wings a different colour. Perhaps the Brasil instructions were not specific enough?
As this is still a flight of fancy, nobody knows what the real A380 will look like so I had a bit of artistic license & painted the wings the same colour, I think it makes the lines look more crisp.
Thanks for the info on the A380 Hippy-ed, Hopefully will see the real thing on Thursday 18th May as it will be at London Heathrow, Fingers crossed for the Virgin colours scheme, only 2hrs travelling will post photos if I see it. And yes, no wheels as it will be hanging from my ceiling in my model room as it’s too big to go anywhere else.
Scott, yer quite [#welcome] The pics were emailed to me by a friend & since I have difficulties posting things like that on the forums, I thought I’d email it to a few people I know who’re into Civilian stuff. Please feel free to pass it on[^] The cut-a-way & the office were most impressive
It’s still a little hard for me to believe that something THAT big will actually fly … but you did a great job, wish I could get my decals looking that “factory applied.”
The way I got my decals to set this well was all down to water & a little bit of ‘Micro sol’, first I sprayed the area in which the decal was to be applied with water this was done by a spray bottle with a fine mist, then apply decal & Q-tip as usual when happy with placement apply plenty of SOL.
Can you tell me which red colour did u use? I plan to build 340 and 380 in VA colours in the near future and any help would be welcome. Did you use Xtracoor’s Virgin Grey overcoated with that perla finish they recommend?
Yes I did use the xtracolor Virgin Grey with mica finish & the red was also by xtracolor (X361 Qantas red) this was recommended by Hannants as the closest match without trying to mix it, I think I couldn’t get any closer in a million years. If your going to build in VA colours I can recommend the decals by brasildecals [bow](747 - Birthday Girl is really nice) also from Hannants.
Beautiful work on the big airliner. I have a hard time imagining 500 to 600 people on one airplane. That is going to be a big bottle neck with servicing, passenger processing, baggage processing, etc.