Oh no! More airliners!

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BenB

Quote from: Badger 3 on Tue 01/11/11 04:24 PM
Ben,
Just got back from Charlotte - got a chance to go to the NC Air Transportation Museum.  I think I know a future home for your Piedmont fleet.

Carolinas Aviation Museum? I've been thinking of sending them my $@#!#@%$#@$#! Trumpeter 1/32 F-100D! In pieces! Then it will look just like the 1/1 Hun they've got.  ;D

Have they managed to get a good number of their planes inside? The F-4S and a few others were going downhill fast.

Ben

Ryan K

Quote from: Badger 3 on Tue 01/11/11 04:24 PM
Ben,
Just got back from Charlotte - got a chance to go to the NC Air Transportation Museum.  I think I know a future home for your Piedmont fleet.

Don't you mean Carolina Aviation Museum w/ the Piedmont DC-3, CH-46D and many other great aircraft.

The Transportation museum is in Spenser and the North Carolina Air Museum is just outside Asheboro.

Herk

Ben,
Just got back from Charlotte - got a chance to go to the NC Air Transportation Museum.  I think I know a future home for your Piedmont fleet.

ClydeM

glad somebody is modeling. pictures look great ben.

BenB

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Finally getting somewhere! The Daco 737-300 converted to a -200 by cutting it up and changing the engines. I've got to go back and add some more silver decal above the engines. The clear parts of the decals curled up after they dried, so I've got to go back and do some trimming. You can see some of it under the fuselage stripe. I'll use a wash to bring out the control surfaces and spoilers, and add a little weathering, too. The 737-200s tended to dirty up the aft fuselage with their reversers.



This is the 1962 Revell 727-100. It's a real piece of... work. I should have gone ahead and spent the $$$ on an Authentic Airliners resin kit instead of wasting a rare set of Liveries Unlimited decals on this thing. I guess it'll look OK hidden in the back of my display case.


Ben

BenB

I actually got to work on a model (or four) for the first time in months!


The Revell 727-100 is finally ready for paint. I chopped up another Daco 737-300 into a -200 over the 4th of July, and I've got it to the point where I just need to do a little filling around the engines and landing lights, then it'll be ready for paint, too. The 727 will be Piedmont's first jet, which was destroyed in a mid-air near Henderson, and the 737 will be Piedmont's more common speedbird livery. The other one is Welsh's new ERJ-190, which will be in JetBlue colors. Not pictured is my old Sasquatch Dash-8 that I'm redoing. It'll be the first Dash-8 I flew with Henson/USAir Express. All of the models are 1/144.

Ben