The A380 hasn't even
taken to the skies yet and Revell Germany has a kit out. The Qatar Airways
Decals were designed by Mr B17 Jeff Dick, and Huge thanks go out to Jeff! I am
not content to use kit markings most of the time and Jeff has been a great Ally
in many of my Airliner Projects.
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The kit is a
monster! I made a few little modifications to the kit to help strengthen it up.
Holes were drilled through the rear fuselage between the horizontal stabs to
slide a brass rod through and into the stabs to add greater strength as the tabs
are very small. I also used sheet styrene to brace between the slots inside the
fuselage for the wings when it came time to fit them. I had trouble with the
landing gear but I can't blame the kit for sure, if I build one again I will
take more time with the correct dihedral of the wing to make sure the wing
mounted gear legs aren't too long.
The kit decals are very nice, I
used the kit supplied data and the window decals. When building the kit I was
concerned about how to deal with the landing lights in the wings as they were a
poor fit, as it turned out there were decals supplied so all I did was paint
some circles with Tamiya Smoke and put the decals overtop of them.
Ted
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