Revell 1:144 Avro RJ-85 (BAE-146) FlyBe

[dr_gn]

Here are some pics of my latest model, a Revell 1:144 Avro RJ-85 (BAE-146). It was a Christmas present. Tricky little model to build. Painted with Tamiya acrylics, control breaks with Promodeller wash. Trying to mix the pale blue undersides to match the decals was a nightmare - I had to re-mask and re paint it because the first attempt dried too dark.

Edited by dr_gn on Wednesday 13th January 22:46

[CobolMan]

Looks very good dr_gn, what's next?

[Eric Mc]

Lovely.

Notice how they still carry their Jersey European based registrations.

Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 13th January 22:55

[dr_gn]

CobolMan said:

Looks very good dr_gn, what's next?

Thanks.

Next one after finishing the Spitfire rebuild (and probably a long time after that!) will be a 1:72 Italeri Mig-29, with as much extra detail stuff on it as I can find:



And with the Slovakian Air Force digital camoflauge I've been wanting to try. Someone on Britmodeller pointed me in the direction of a company which will be making a decal set for it:



Cheers.

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

Lovely.

Notice how they still carry their Jersey European based registrations.

Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 13th January 22:55

Cheers Eric, never noticed the registration, apart from I think it should have it under one of the wing, but it's not on the decal sheet.

My first ever flight was on a British European '146...I wonder if it was this one? I'll never know now!

[Eric Mc]

They actually traded as British European for a very short while. They wanted to change from JEA to BEA but British Airways told them in no uncertain terms to forget about any notions of calling themselves British European Airways or BEA. So they settled on just British European - and then flybe.com.

[Evangelion]

dr_gn said:

... I had to re-mask and re paint it because the first attempt dried too dark.

This is a problem with acrylics, dunno whether it's because they are water-based or what, but they tend to change colour as they dry and it does make mixing a pain.

Actually I've just realised that Tamiya are alcohol-based so perhaps it's just a problem with acrylics generally; I've never experienced it with cellulose or enamels.

[wy906]

Good job!

I've always wanted to get a few but just have nowhere to put them.

[dr_gn]

Evangelion said:

dr_gn said:

... I had to re-mask and re paint it because the first attempt dried too dark.

This is a problem with acrylics, dunno whether it's because they are water-based or what, but they tend to change colour as they dry and it does make mixing a pain.

Actually I've just realised that Tamiya are alcohol-based so perhaps it's just a problem with acrylics generally; I've never experienced it with cellulose or enamels.

I should have sprayed some and let it dry to check it. Whenever I try a short cut it never works, but I'm too old to learn from my mistakes these days. The original shade difference was *just* enough to annoy me into re spraying it all. I'm glad I did it though, because the rest of the model turned out OK in the end.

[TomsDad]

Looks awesome, nice work!

[perdu]

dr_gn that looks lovely



I think the sheen is dead right too proper glossy would have looked daft

I like this model

I would quite like to build an Air France one, wonder if the missus noticed the reg on the one we flew to Paris on?

One day maybe!

Fulcrum in that digital pattern would be awesome. Is the sheet likely to be expensive, do you know?

[Eric Mc]

Some of the Air France ones carry Irish registrations.

[Merry]

Eric Mc said:

Some of the Air France ones carry Irish registrations.

Isnt their an ex Manx airlines/BA BAE 146 operated by Air France too? Or did I imagine that from somewhere? G-MIMA I believe.

[Nick_F]

Looks like you got the waterline sorted.

[dr_gn]

Merry said:

Eric Mc said:

Some of the Air France ones carry Irish registrations.

Isnt their an ex Manx airlines/BA BAE 146 operated by Air France too? Or did I imagine that from somewhere? G-MIMA I believe.

I've flown on an Air France '146 on a couple of occasions. Once was the return leg of a charter flight, the outbound leg of which was on a British European one. Strange.

[Eric Mc]

Air France don't actually own or operate any 146s. They have a number of franchise arrangements with some UK and Irish airlines whereby those airlines operate some routes on behalf of AIr France. One of the requirements of these franchises is that the aircraft operating on these routes are painted in Air France colours. It's more or less a rouse to fool the passengers into thinking they are actually flying on an Air France aircraft.

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 15th January 09:06

[dr_gn]

Nick_F said:

Looks like you got the waterline sorted.

Yes, was much easier than expected: There are longitudinal splice lines on the cylindrical part of the fuselage which I lined the masking tape up with. I then looked on the plan and identified a few moulded features about where the curves ended. The natural curve formed by the tape when aligned with these features gave a horizontal line when viewed from the side. The ends of the waterline were just circular cut-out arcs of masking tape aligned tangential to the straight bits.