Anyway, the Amodel 1/72 of the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer, a kit I have had around just for the beauty of the sircraft -- if you don't like Rutan designs, you have no heart ....
From Wikipedia:
The Scaled Composites Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer (registered N277SF) is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan in which Steve Fossett flew a solo nonstop airplane flight around the world in a time of 67 hours 1 minute from February 28, 2005 until March 3, 2005. The flight speed of 590.7 km/h (342.2 mph) broke the Absolute World Record for the fastest nonstop unrefueled circumnavigation set by the previous Rutan-designed Voyager aircraft at 9 days 3 minutes and an average speed of 186.11 km/h (115.65 mph). The aircraft was owned by the pilot Steve Fossett, sponsored by Richard Branson's airline, Virgin Atlantic, and built by Burt Rutan's company, Scaled Composites. The companies had previously announced a combined effort for Virgin Galactic. Between February 8, 2006 – February 11, 2006, Fossett flew the GlobalFlyer for the longest aircraft flight distance in history: 25,766 miles (41,467 km). You can read more about it here.
The kit appears very simple, the molding is quite nice with no obvious flash, sink marks, or ejector pins -- but then again I can't see very well either. It has no panel lines, making life very simple.
Paint is mostly white, all the colors specified are Humbrol so I'm set. The only risk is if I have decal problems.
I think I shall build this gear up, to be hung, along with Voyager, from my ceiling. Alternatively, since Voyager comes with a stand, I might just make a stand for the GF also ....
