1/144 Minicraft B777-200

Varig 75th Anniversary scheme

by Ray Seppala

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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

Photos and text © by Ray Seppala