No backstory with this one, it's worn me out. I am very pleased with some of the stuff I accomplished with this. Lots of masking to avoid having long thin decals breaking. Some fairly good (for me) freehand painting of a lot area around the nose.  Recovering some decals from potential disaster.

There were troubles. I should have firmly installed the gear doors before attaching the wings, access wasn't easy after they're on. I should have located the boom operator station a little further back and up the curve, the gear is short and it would receive a few bashes during hard landings.

But it's done, and one more cleared for take-off to the shelf.

The kit is the 1/200th product from Dragon, and it's quite nice. The Starlifter is an attractive aircraft, and I think this product does it justice. It was originally going to be a 'real world' example, but when I found a 1/200th KC-10A by Hasegawa, inspiration hit. Let's face it, it isnt a common scale, and to find two aircraft that scale is like a gift you can't pass up. Base colour is good old Tamiya Fine White primer, the others are Revell Aqua. Leading edges are AK True Metal paste. Decals obviously came from the KC-10A the only one used from the Dragon sheet is the marking ahead of the refueling point.

I haven't put a clear coat on, didn't want to take the chance of it ruining the whole thing and seeing all that work go for naught.

1 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

2 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

3 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

4 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

5 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

6 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

7 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

8 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

Always liked the Starlifter and your version is sweet mate..yup I am liking this big-time Ratty mate   

Very nice. I will admit to dreaming of RAF Starlifters when I was a kid.

Very nice indeed, love the aircraft and the scheme. 

Uh, pretty! 

Looks impressive 

Nice 

Painted the way it is has made me wonder about a C-141 as a alternate Air Force One...

Absolutely stunning!

TomZ

Very nice.
 

Quote from: TomZ on January 20, 2023, 12:54:21 AMAbsolutely stunning!

TomZ

It is indeed 

Quote from: The Rat on January 19, 2023, 05:52:31 PMNo backstory with this one, it's worn me out.

It's a  beauty !  Please may I have  your permission to have a go at producing  a backstory which I hope will be a tribute to a really  first rate piece of modelling?.................I'm only "barely adequate"  with styrene, but wrangling language comes much easier to me.

Quote from: Rheged on January 20, 2023, 08:56:54 AMIt's a  beauty !  Please may I have  your permission to have a go at producing  a backstory which I hope will be a tribute to a really  first rate piece of modelling?.................I'm only "barely adequate"  with styrene, but wrangling language comes much easier to me.

Thank you, permission granted!

Wondering why Lockheed didn't do that for real, and realised that the C-141 was only KC-135 sized anyway so wouldn't have offered any advantage over the existing USAF tankers.

But it does look a lot better. 

Wow that looks fantastic!  Great idea and execution.   

That's a looker indeed!