This kit started out
as a Hasegawa 747-200 boxed in Air Canada Marking by Shaben International that I
paid $8 for at a contest swap & shop. I got my loot home that night and
looked at it thinking what the heck am I going to do with this? Then the idea
came to me.... ever since I was 10 I wanted to have a model of a 747SP and I had
plotted how to go about doing this, now was the time to go for it! I
started with photos and specs from Airliners.net and plotted my course.
You could say this has been a 30 year project and this is now one of my
favourite Models that I have built.
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I cut about 2 inches in length
using the windows as a good place to make my longitudinal cuts. The tail
section had had to be lowered and the Rudder & Horizontal Stabs lengthened
by about 1 cm. each. I relied very heavily on my Reference Photos for the new
shape of the tail section.
The model was painted in Model
Master Flat White as a base and Insignia White as a final coating. I
went looking at the pics on Airliners.net and picked the Livery that my friend
Jeff liked the best..... and he made the Decals for me on his Alps Printer.
Thanks Again Jeff!
Ted
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