Boeing 737-800 OK-TVT [Bratislava - Boa Vista 18.06.2019]
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Let's start the journey 🙂
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Travel Service decals already ordered
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as well as great addition to the kit - Authentic Airliner decals for Boeing 737-800 - really looking forward to seeing this in place
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starting to putt together the wing
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Plane will be displayed in-flight, therefore no undercarriage parts will be used - only covers
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main fuselage glued together.
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wings and fuselage glued together - brilliant fit - no filling necessary. Bloody well done Zvezda!
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Travel service decals finally arrived (few days after the initial start of the project)
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nicely done, everything in register. great stuff!
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wing ends in place. so far everything is going very well
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front glass part (canopy) - nice fit
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starting to put together engines, rear horizontal stabilizers will be painted separately (great fit again with the fuselage ! )
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airplane will be displayed in this way.
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second set of decals finally arrived ( a week later since the start of the project)
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looking great!
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rear horizontal stabilizers and wheels after a coat of MRP grey primer
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plane also after primer coat
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look's like the canopy is sitting a little bit higher
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also the side windows are sticking too much out in some places
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top joint,
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and bottom joint is looking good.
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canopy sanded down to blend with the rest of the fuselage.
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as well as side windows
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starting to put together the engines - decided that the shape of the conus is too much pointy and sanded it down a little
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since there shold be decal nr. 2 (two small white snakes)
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and after small touch-up painting and decalling 🙂
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main turbines painted and ready for glueing in the outher parts (which will be at the end)
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Outer parts glued together, inner surfaces painted with metallic paint (MRP titanium)
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final completion of the engines will be at the end of the build. It will be easier to place decals, weather, etc. The fit with the wing is perfect!
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rear horizontal stabilizers painted final black primer (MRP) and also front ends of the parts painted with duraluminium
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After sanding and polishing the front top surface of the canopy - overall final black primer coat.
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Top transition is looking good.
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as well as side windows. everything is ok. Now just add small details (antennas, bits and bobs) and the model is ready for final painting 🙂
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First two layers of paint in place. It will get at least one more layer and polishing can start 🙂
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First layer was XF02 sprayed neat and after 10 minutes another layer, this time thinned 50/50 with X-20A. I'm very satisfied with the result.
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second (thinner) coat of Tamiya XF-02 flat white thinned with self levelling thinner done. With a slight buffing with polishing stick, surface is nice and shiny.
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Moving along, both wings sprayed with MRP light grey. Next will be tail and wingtips in Tamiya blue.
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Only leading edges need to be sprayed and then - decaling
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Painting of main body is done!
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And the long decaling is underway
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only a few more decals for engines remaining - and then the windows from additional set
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Ok folks! all decals are in place.
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Now the rest of the small parts and mainly the stand. more info about the stand later 😉
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front engine part sprayed in AK-EM Polished Aluminium glued with PVA glue in place and both engines glued to the wings.
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together with rear horizontal stabilizers its looking great!
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The only parts that are still missing are small antennas and of course the display stand which will sprayed in Tamyia gloss black and after some drying time - both the stand and aircraft will get 2k gloss (MRP brand)
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Model finally sealed with Alclad Aqua GLoss
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It's a good think that this build is coming to an end. I really need to clean my work place 😄
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And it's DONE! Small bits and bobs are glued with white PVA glue.
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Commenti
8 21 July 2019, 19:38
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Where does that airline operate? I was trying to find it on Flightradar... 🙂
21 July 2019, 20:17
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Flight number was 6D6648. It was most likely just one time trip for this aircraft (as a replacement for 737-8Max which usually operate on this trip). Right now it is scheduled from Prague to Moscow [flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ok-tvt].
21 July 2019, 20:49
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OK-TVT was the plane used from Bratislava to Boa Vista, and the return trip was onboard OK-TSE.
21 July 2019, 20:50
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Nice watching! Interesting how you're going to cover black primer with the white paint...
7 August 2019, 12:12
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Thanks guys. I'm currently waiting for the paint to show up and hopefully I will be able to get to the spray booth next week.
7 August 2019, 15:50