This
is the second Minicraft B777 I have put together. It is the Continental boxing
with GE engines; it assembles with a minimum of fuss. There are a few
corrections to be made as well as adding some antennae and drain masts.
The corrections I made were to reshape the flap track fairings; they come as a
rectangular cross section so I removed some plastic to make the corners rounder.
There is also a main landing gear door missing which can be made from sheet
card.
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I
used a mixture of Gunze blue (5) and Tamiya Purple to match the fuselage and
engine colour to the tail decal. I just continued to add the purple to the
blue until it looked right. I used Testors metaliser on the engines and leading
edges, Tamiya white for the top part of the fuselage, Tamiya metallic grey for
the wing in-spar sections and Gunze 315 for the wings. I find with all my
airliners that a good undercoat with a light grey colour makes applying the
white a very simple operation. The whole model was sprayed with future before
decaling.
The
decals are from MASP. I found them to be quite delicate and almost trashed
a few trying to position them. The only issue I had colour wise was a
mottled effect on the purple of the tail decal after it was applied and dried.
Can't figure out why this happened. Overall I am happy with the end
result. Only 2 more 777s to go!
Ray
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