Aero MB-200 Airliner

[Bungle]

This is my one and only What-If this year and breaks my new year resolution of a whole year of Real World kit making. I don't know why but when I was making the Heller MB-210 I kept thinking that this aircraft could have been an inter-war airliner. Then I came across th KP Aero MB-200..... big and ugly and then the what-if bug hit.... so here it is.

Ok I know the British European Airways colours are the 1960's style but then this is What-if. So what-if BEA had formed in the mid-1930's and what-if the BEA colours had been the Red/White/Black rather than the earlier Silver/Red and What-if the Mloch MB-200 was the best inter-war twelve seater airliner around.

Ladies and Gentlemen I present for your wonder and bewilderment British European Airways Aero MB-200.....

[Gondor]

That looked so much like the car ferry BEA operated that I had to do a double take

Gondor

[Pablo1965]

This is the spirit, you have make a nice work with a unusual plane 

[RotorheadTX]

That looked so much like the car ferry BEA operated that I had to do a double take
Gondor

That's hysterical - my thought was the only thing uglier BEA had flown was the Carvair.
Looks like many of us were separated soon after birth and initial 'mental conditioning'. LOLs

[John Howling Mouse]

Great idea overall but it's your attention to detail that has me fascinated.  The suitcases, the logos on the coveralls, the cargo netting....it's all so perfect.

Amazing that you could do all this using a KP kit, no less!

[dogsbody]

Before I clocked on the small images, to make them larger, I thought it was a Bristol Freighter in it's civil guise.

Nicely done.

[Alvis 3.14159]

Holy cow! That's fantastic!

Alvis Pi.

[GTX]

 

[NARSES2]

That looked so much like the car ferry BEA operated that I had to do a double take

Gondor

Me to- fantastic work 

[PR19_Kit]

That looked so much like the car ferry BEA operated that I had to do a double take

Gondor

Me to- fantastic work 

And me! Astonishing how much it looks like a Bristol Freighter. Where did the original kit come from?

[Mossie]

That was my first thought too when I saw the minimised pic.  Great work bungle!

[Bungle]

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Where did the original kit come from?
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Third pile on the left, two or three boxes up from the bottom...  Sorry you mean where not where ... 

It's the KP PLASTIKOVY AERO MB-200 kit. One of the cheap Czech kit, much maligned but actally not bad (except for parts number on the plans don't match the numbers on the plastic or the picture of the sprues in the instructions. Very reminiscent of the Heller MB-210 kit, same large sprues but the fuselage and nacelles differ quite a bit.

[Doc Yo]

 Really nice conversion!

[PR19_Kit]

Ah yes, that one.......

I have to say it looks MUCH better as an airliner! 

[sequoiaranger]

...but do you have some "first-class" seats in the front "picture window"?

Nice idea. So many German bombers were derived from "airliners" (though intended when designed to double as bombers), it is good to see the reverse.