My airline builds – Airlinercafe

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September 29, 2025 at 6:13 am #249478
kg4kpg
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Morning team,

I don’t think I’ve posted and of my airline builds here lately. Most from the last year or so, some older. May be some flaws here and there, but I don’t make any money from them, so I let it go. 🙂

Got a small line up I’m planning for the next couple years, which include some DC-3’s, 787-8 and 9, L-1011, DC-10, 727, CRJ-700, and an An-124. May do a C-17if I can find a good deal for one as a friends daughter is currently in training to become a C-17 pilot for the Air Force.

The 787 is a whit-if as the 437th shares the field with the 787 plant here, so used some C-17 decals on the 787. I like the way it came out.

Thanks for looking,

Chris

[caption id="attachment_249442" align="alignnone" width="800"] Delta[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_249443" align="alignnone" width="800"] 787 What-If[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_249441" align="alignnone" width="800"] Delta[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_249439" align="alignnone" width="800"] AeroMexico[/caption]

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September 29, 2025 at 10:31 am #249482
electraglider
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kg4kpg

I loved seeing your completed models. Especially the NW Orient DC-6B and the TWA Super Conni (without the always seen radar nose). I’m in my 80’s so props are my thing, a thing left over from my youth. My only criticisms are the DC-6B’s seemingly too vertical a nose strut and the nose shape of the Super Conni. Though to be honest even the model manufacturers missed the boat on the Conni by taking the easy way out with a simple conical radar shaped part rather than the true complex forward oval cross section shape that morphed from a symmetrical side view contour into a slender vertical profile shape that closed at the nose tip with a blended ellipse. It’s really hard to see that oval shape unless you’re standing directly in front. Jets today always seem totally in white, now except for a few airlines. but your Tu-134 grabbed my attention. Good work.

Electraglider

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September 29, 2025 at 8:21 pm #249487
xradar98
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Good work! My nit to pick is the Delta 757. Great job on it, however that widget scheme never had the wifi antenna. Again, nice job.

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September 29, 2025 at 9:01 pm #249488
gjake
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Nice job! My favorite is the Delta DC-3.

Gene

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September 30, 2025 at 7:47 am #249491
LH707
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Impressive build count in such a short time frame! I’m a fan of those metallic schemes, well done!

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September 30, 2025 at 1:06 pm #249492
Ken Miller
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Beautiful builds. I’m partial to the Super Guppy having built two of them. The Beluga is an eye catcher as well but definitely not a beauty contest winner.

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September 30, 2025 at 1:37 pm #249493
kg4kpg
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On September 29, 2025 at 8:21 pm xradar98 Wrote

Good work! My nit to pick is the Delta 757. Great job on it, however that widget scheme never had the wifi antenna. Again, nice job.

Yeah, I pretty much had it build before I decided on the livery, so there was no turning back. Really didn’t notice it on the pics I reviewed, until you brought it up. 😀 All good. Lucky passengers I suppose. 😉

Ken Miller, agreed, not real pretty. I do wish someone would kit us a BalugaXL though, love their baluga whale paint job.

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September 30, 2025 at 9:50 pm #249494
Frank V
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Very nice work! Bravo.

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October 25, 2025 at 10:54 am #249777
kg4kpg
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On September 29, 2025 at 9:01 pm gjake Wrote

Nice job! My favorite is the Delta DC-3.

Gene

Thanks Gene, mine as well. It sat with a plane silver paint job for a couple years before I discovered Rub n Buf. The pics don’t do it justice, it looks a lot like polished bare aluminum with a little weather affect in person.

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