Andrew's Airfix Ford Trimotor **DNF**

[AndrewR]

I'm building the old Airfix Ford Trimotor kit.



An old boxing, with "Locate and cement" style instructions. Excellent

As the decals are a bit elderly, I have some very nice Alaskan Airline ones from Draw Decal.



So this should be quite bright and cheerful when finished!

[PaulBradley]

Cool! They have some neat decals over at Draw.

[AndrewR]

Cool! They have some neat decals over at Draw.

Yes,I like the look of the Huey Cobra firefighter

Here's their website, for anyone interested

http://www.drawdecal.com/;

[VickersVandal]

Alaskan markings eh? Excellent! Great choice for the GB

[AndrewR]

Alaskan markings eh? Excellent! Great choice for the GB

Star Airlines from Alaska, I should have said!

Looking through the figures spares for sitting passengers, I found a few possibles. These are all very cheap and nasty railway figures from China. Completely varying in size too! From the skinny proportions of some of the standing figures, I suspect they are very bad Preiser knock-offs

The four figures on the left look to be usable with just a clean up. Two seated women passengers, a steward and stewardess standing.



The two sitting figures appear to have sci-fi monkey heads, but are convertible. I found one figure that I had already given a wide brimmed hat. This is the "already started" part of the GB!



I will probably try to resculpt or modify the other figures to represent sitting male passengers. I have lots of these figures, so a few failures will not pose a problem!

[PaulBradley]

Failure IS an option - well I never...

[AndrewR]

Failure IS an option - well I never...

I have less to work with here than Gene Kranz

[gnomemeansgnome]

Nice!

[AndrewR]

Nice!

If you saw some of these figures, then "Zombies" would be the word

[VickersVandal]

Those pilots are definitely Preiser knockoffs from the 1920s airliner set. Are they resin or have they reverse engineered injection moulds for them?

[AndrewR]

Those pilots are definitely Preiser knockoffs from the 1920s airliner set. Are they resin or have they reverse engineered injection moulds for them?

Very bad injection moulds with very low quality hard plastic. You can buy 100 mixed figures for about $4. Maybe 20 will be useful.

They probably mixed up the Preiser 1:87 and 1:72 figures too.

[gnomemeansgnome]

I was referring to the Trimotor. And also agreed about the figures; I have a bag of similar figures that are rather sketchy looking as well, yet might yield a few usables.

[AndrewR]

I was referring to the Trimotor.

I knew I'd seen those sitting figures before:



A Crypton.

From Dan Dare and the Man From Nowhere

[TobyC]

I was referring to the Trimotor.

I knew I'd seen those sitting figures before:



A Crypton.

From Dan Dare and the Man From Nowhere

Ah classic literature

[theconfidencestoat]

How are you going to mask that red bit at the front ?