TheFlyingDutchman

I still prefer the Revell kit as it includes a wonderful decal sheet with all the little details that make a model stand out. Building the Zvezda-kit in clean (flaps up) configuration would be challenging as you end up with minor steps at the spoiler panels' trailing edges. So, yes, the Zvezda kit IS a very nice one looking at the photos but I don't see any reason to throw my Revell's out.

Thanks everyone!! :D The pilots are from a bag of 1:150th scale train passengers that I bought on eBay for almost nothing. They are perfect to fill up cockpits in this scale. greets Jelle

greets Jelle

Here's the final photoshoot:

Hello, This is a special project with the help of Greg Drawbaugh (DRAW Decal). I asked him whether one of his old sheets for the Air Tahiti Nui A340's was still available, but he did not produce it anymore as the circular patterns had to be masked. I convinced him to update the sheet along with some colour matches in the instructions. He sent a sample to me to test it and to find out what colours suited this bird well. I added some pilots to the cockpit (which is included in the kit! It's very basic though). I ruined the kit's cockpit window so I had to make a new one out of styrene s

It is a very nice kit, though it doesn't assemble as easily as mainstream kits. Especially if you want to have the cabin windows transparent it's quite challenging to make the transparent strips blend in nicely with the fuselage, without sanding the lightly engraved windows outlines away (which are quite necessary as a guide for the separate window masks). Also, the decals are VERY thin so you should give them an extra coat of decal film or lacquer before using them. I don't remember the cabin on my 737 flights to be THAT small :)

Very cool, with what purpose did a civilian company fly a Mosquito? Mail?

That LOT sheet is very tempting... might be fun to add a little info on the little portraits on the LOT aircraft in the instructions, even if it's just the name. I can only assume you're also working on some Air Koryo sets?

Times are changing very fast today, mainly caused by internet and related technology. Honestly, shopkeepers shouldn't keep sitting apathetically in their stores pretending nothing happens outside. Let someone build a good website with a webshop for you and try to keep your assortment distinctive. Webshops with warehouses that double as actual shops on good locations will be the future if you ask me. Too bad most modelers and shopkeepers are just on the wrong side of that generation gap and I don't see today's generation of modelers (yes, there actually are quite a lot of people below 30 that b

When the inlet consists of two halves I simply assemble it all without paint to remove the seams inside. Afterwards, I airbrush the inside with a basic colour and then do the rest with fine brushes. I sometimes paint white decal paper in another greyish colour and use it to simulate the paneling inside the inlet that you see sometimes. If you have a reasonably steady hand you really don't have to mask for the aluminium rings, unless you want to use paint that absolutely can't be hand painted, like Alclad. But since most airliners have a very dull aluminium colour on those rings you don't rea

They are pretty good and have a very wide range of decals. The sheets are not very detailed though, they must be complemented with the kit's detail decals. Also, they are quite thick, and most sheets (especially 737) do not have the window shapes right (too square). They are very nice and easy to work with, though!!

I still fear the day that trick-or-treaters show up at my door unexpected. Traditionally we don't celebrate Halloween. Not with trick-or-treat, at least, but people do give Halloween-parties at home, making the train stations of the cities an interesting place to be at Halloween night! But some parents (the hipster kind, who move their kids around in freight bikes, those people do exist!) do send their kids out at Halloween night, without preparing them for the disappointment of no-one being able to give them candy because they don't have any. In some parts of the country, including mine,

Maybe a Delta 767-400? It very much looks like a BA 777 indeed, though. Maybe the flap track fairings you miss are in fact there, but not visible on your photo because of the distance.

I don't really know what to say. I hope she gets better soon and that you will be able to pay the bills. I wish you lots of strength!

That's helpful, thanks! I'm far from a Soviet aviation expert so I didn't know this.

greets Jelle

Close up of the light in the fuselage as seen on the previous photo

Main wheel bay

(the wood in the left engine does not belong there obviously, the object in the right engine is a FOD-cover) Note the stator blades IN FRONT OF the rotating fan blades, as seen on other Soviet engine types as well.

With the Zvezda 1:144th scale Il-62 hitting the shelves any moment, here are some walkaround shots of an Il-62. The photos are made by me. Registration: B-2024 Location: Chinese Aviation Museum, Datangshan (Beijing), People's Republic of China Date: April 24, 2014

I have found the video. Unfortunately there are no English subtitles. You can select Dutch subs, just in case that helps But you should get the idea without text either. They don't really give an explanation for the brake results, though. From 17:27 http://www.npo.nl/blik-op-de-weg/17-05-2013/AVRO_1611867

Well the question is because of an item I saw on Dutch TV a while back. They were showing that a van loaded above its legal weight (but with proper brakes) does not stop later than an empty van when making an emergency stop. I know, a van is not an airplane but I was wondering if this applied to both.

A lot of people think of images of Canadair's dumping water over forest fires when they read about a fuel dump. It isn't even close to that. The fuel is jettisoned at such a high pressure that it atomizes and most likely vaporize before it reaches the ground. Also on low altitudes. A few years back there had been an incident involving a Royal Air Maroc b737 suffering multiple bird strikes after T/O here at Schiphol, flaming out one of the engines. It made a VERY low (under 600 ft, as confirmed in the official investigation report) emergency turn over my town and landed safely. Some media rep

Are there actually completely healthy people that take them, except for people in the military? I only know of people who get them because of other health issues (asthma, diabetes type 1)

Revell BAe Hawk or Hawker Hunter. Reasonably good kits for very good prices. You could upgrade them with some nice PE and resin aftermarket and still stay within your budget.