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Article by Ted Johnston |
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West Pac Sam's Town 1/200th Scale
Boeing 737
The pictures were taken by Steve
Bamford with his incredible little camera.
There are alot of very wild
colour schemes showing up on Airliners these days and I was drawn to the various
West Pac sheets put out by Skyline Decals. Wil Hendriks picked this sheet up for
me in England when he was at the IPMS Nationals in the UK last year.
I used the Hasegawa 737-400 kit
which is for all intense purposes a snap together kit, there are no windows
molded into the fuselage which I don't have a problem with. The fit was good and
in fact the engines are a perfect fit on the wings, so good that I had to scrape
the paint off to put them in place (I was counting on snapping them into place).
The instructions call for a 737-300 but all I could get my hands on was a -400
which is just a bit longer.
Click on
images below to see larger images
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The decals are Skyline's West Pac
Sam's Town 1 Sheet. I was very happy with the decals but they are very thick and
some of the smaller ones such as the lights for the lead edge of the wings
refused to conform to the wing shape. There are places where the decals are four
deep with all the various colour separations and data placement, this caused me
no problems.
I used Model Master Enamel Paint
custom mixed to FS 13637 Yellow Ochre, this was done by Jeff Dick who is an
expert at mixing paint.
I don't track my time when I
build a kit but I put in a fair chunk of time on this one mostly devoted to
painting the wings.....a couple times until I got a colour I liked! Overall I am
very happy with the results.
Ted Johnston
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