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Dear All,
There are days in life, where Birthday, Christmas and New Year coincide in one day,
and I wanted to share my euphoria with you )Today three SP’s arrived at my door that I have been awaiting for 35 years :love
and I will declare 22 November being an official celebration day in my calendar.I will immediately start building the first of these stunning beauties into the old Pan Am colors.
Here she is fully naked )
The second one will be in TWA colors and I could imagine the third one being American, United or SAA.
Seems I have to order more of them while they are still available.Lieber Kurt — words cannot express my gratitude that you realized this beauty and the detail is mindblowing! It’s a masterpiece of artwork! Danke, Danke, Danke ! :love
Cheers,
Christian
Christian Klepp
Lightyears Landscape Photography
Where Geoscience Meets Art
www.christianklepp.comBeautiful! Absolutely beautiful! Nice work Kurt!
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That is gonna be an amazing build, I am sure of it
Good luck with the projects and looking forward to see the progress:love
Best wishes,
Guillem
www.rocastmodels.com - GSE models for your airplanes! and soon more to come :)
Rocast-Digidecals, the most detailed liveries for your airliner models.Christmas is this year 1 month earlier. Got my B747SP today :love:love:love:love
Will be in TWA colors
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sad that it never was real
My favorite colors of TWA
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Note that TWA’s SPs had the upper deck forward door on both sides. That was a customer option, and AFAIK they were the only ones like that.
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There were several Boeing customer options that I am pretty sure TWA was the only airline who chose them… Like the Essential Power switch on the overhead panel of the 727. And the switches that went the opposite direction of everyone else.
Mike
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!"
What happened so far:
– mounted tail cone to fuselage, puttied, sanded, puttied sanded, taped back end of tail cone to save panel lines
– sanded, puttied, sanded upper fuselage to remove uneven lines, taped panel lines to save them
– cleaned with isopropanol
– primered 4 times, in between sanding and panel line paint removing using Tamiya Fine Surface Primer and Fine Surface Grey Primer
– sanded and puttied wing and stabs trailing edges to remove imperfections
– primered wings and stabs
– sanding, polishing of white fuselage
– taping, applying Tamiya grey AS-16 to wings in 4 layers, sanding, polishing
– taping, applying airbrush coroguard to wings (self-mixed), sanding, polishing
– taping fuselage for white/silver delineation using Tamiya flex tape on the nose section
– primered silver on lower fuselage using Tamiya As-12
– taped silver areas
– taped wing box using Tamiya flex tape, primered wing box using Tamiya As-16
– taping adding Tamiya As-20 light grey panels (they repainted often on the original ones resulting in lighter grey tones)
– painting 8 different shades of silver on fuselage panels according to photos in stripy appearance just as dirt and water flows down the fuselage
– removed all tape
sanding, polishing of wing box
– applied some detail to the wing box (not ready yet)
– sanding polishing of the tail, applied silver trailing edge using 5 shades off silver
– applied Pan Am logo and flag decal (26 decals) and cockpit decal (AA decals)Next steps:
– sanding silver fuselage parts
– weathering of the entire plane (getting my make-up ready for a dirty Pan Am plane)So, this is how she looks now, half dressed )
This is a pure fun build! (right click on image, select view image to see it large)
Happy fourth advent to all of you!
Christian
Christian Klepp
Lightyears Landscape Photography
Where Geoscience Meets Art
www.christianklepp.comLooks great Christian!
What decals are you using? Is the coroguard tamiya grey or decals. Thanks
Kind of wondering when this kit will be available. Anyone know?
Cheers
Andrew
CYYZHi Andrew,
as written in the text decals are from 26decals and AA windows,
coroguard is airbrushed, my own mix of Humbrol 56 + bits of Humbrol Gun Metal and Humbrol 11 silver.Its the same coroguard as on my MD-11
http://www.airlinercafe.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=9770Cheers,
Christian
Christian Klepp
Lightyears Landscape Photography
Where Geoscience Meets Art
www.christianklepp.comWow, looks great! Are the wingtip HF antennas separate parts, or did you remove them before painting?
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The wingtip HF antennas are separate parts and will be attached last to avoid damage.
Cheers,
Christian
Christian Klepp
Lightyears Landscape Photography
Where Geoscience Meets Art
www.christianklepp.comVery nice! I like the static strip detail in the wings, too!
Cheers,
Dan
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Why did only the early 747s have those strips Dan?? Any idea?
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Good question, Jennings.
Also, is it true, that all -100, -200 and SP had it and that they were absent on the -300 and -400?
Christian
Christian Klepp
Lightyears Landscape Photography
Where Geoscience Meets Art
www.christianklepp.comHi Christian,
You’ve done a nice job painting the model but the Pan Am logo on the tail is supposed to be for the billboard version. I know it’s not your fault but rather an error from 26decals. I have both Pan Am SP decal and the logos are the same on both sheets. The spacing between white curved lines should be wider on the Pan Am billboard version and narrow on the older version. I’m looking forward to seeing this beauty get done.
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Ray :
Hi Christian,
You’ve done a nice job painting the model but the Pan Am logo on the tail is supposed to be for the billboard version. I know it’s not your fault but rather an error from 26decals. I have both Pan Am SP decal and the logos are the same on both sheets. The spacing between white curved lines should be wider on the Pan Am billboard version and narrow on the older version. I’m looking forward to seeing this beauty get done.Now corrected.
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Dear Ray and Ray,
thanks for noting that, I also have both versions of 26decals (old color and billboard) and the logos are of different size:
blue stripe colors: 3.8 cm diameter
billboard: 4.0 cm diameterStill, I also recognized that the logo is too large (maybe by 1 or 2 mm) and that the white merians don’t coincide with photo alignment.
Ray, did you corrected that just now? I bought these decals maybe a year ago.
Could be great to have exact logo measures on the tail.Any help on making this model spot on is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Christian
Christian Klepp
Lightyears Landscape Photography
Where Geoscience Meets Art
www.christianklepp.com
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