Could be worse. The old Airfix method of dealing with airliner windows in 1/144th scale was a real pain. They supplied clear plastic windows and the decal sheet included a full cheat line with no window holes in it. What you were supposed to do was paint the fuselage before assembling it, apply the cheat line decals and let them dry, and then punch window holes in them using a special little tool that was part of the kit. Once that was done (and assuming the cheat lines hadn't been torn to shreds as you punched put all the holes, you then added the windows from inside the fuselage and assembled it. How people coped with filling seams and the like, I don't know, nor what they were supposed to do with paint schemes like that of BOAC, where the cheat line wrapped around the nose.coptermech wrote:There are no clear windows with the kit. The openings are very small. The green decal runs the entire length of the fuselage right over the windows and doesn't have spots for windows. I suppose this is why window decals are supplied.JamesPerrin wrote:Not a kit I've seen built before. Why didn't you use the kit windows and then fill the remaining gaps?
I tried to do that for the first release of the Airfix Concorde kit, but gave up fairly soon and painted it as 002, the British prototype -- which the kit was based on, thereby being significantly different from both the pre-production and production aircraft. Never really worked out how to do the lettering along the fuselage because I didn't have access to generic letter decals and didn't know about Letraset, but it looked all right, especially alongside the 1/132 scale Tu-144 that I had (VEB Plasticart? Some Eastern European kitmaker, anyway).