Rolls Royce ate my Airbus: The BAC Three-Eleven Airliner - 1/144 Scale

[Overkiller]

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[TsrJoe]

a cool build Duncan, i very much look forward to seing how this one progresses. The civil side is usually a forgotten aspect of the 'project cancelled' genre, its got to be Laker of course? (iv an agents model of an A.300 in their colours, looks really nice)

seasons best wishes, Joe

[thedarkmaster]

Very interesting project i shall watch with interest 

[Thorvic]

Looking good so far, but of course the devil is in the detail and trying to get all the bits together  .

Its a big bugger aint it for design we normally associate with smaller narrow body airliners, you really need to do one next to a standard BAC 1-11 to help illustrate the differences.

G

[PR19_Kit]

YEEESSSSSSSssssssssss!  

As you might have gathered I'm SERIOUSLY impressed by your 3-11 efforts Duncan.

For the BAC 1-11 comparison model I have one or two spare you might find handy, good price, fast shipment......  

[Hobbes]

And another interesting project!

I've got a Tristar in 'progress' myself, it needs some cleaning up, doesn't it?

[Mossie]

Pulling up my deck chair, I'll enjoying seeing this tubby number progress.

[PR19_Kit]

For some reason it looks even bigger with the wings attached! That's got to be one impressive piece of plastic when it's done. 

[Gondor]

Right now I am busy reshaping my horizontal stabs.

T.M.I. !!!!

Gondor

[Hobbes]

Did you move the wing further aft? The wing position looks different now compared to this photo:

[Hobbes]

Funny how that works sometimes. It does look a bit odd now, but think of the DC-9, that worked well enough with the wings way aft of the center.

[kitnut617]

It's got to be something to do with the RW weight of the engines I think ---

[JayBee]

I've been battling for sometime to visualise how the tail end looks, I've spent ages studying the 3 view, and looking at pictures of the artwork and display models in the Graziano Freschi book, but until now I just haven't been able to get my head round the shape of the tail, especially the aerodynamic fairing at the rear of the vertical stabilisor. This has not been helped by some of the artwork showing different shapes (obviously an evolving aspect of the design, each successive artists impression shows a different iteration of the design), the early style seems to be a bullet shape, so a cut up drop tank would suffice however, the artwork that dates from just before the program was abandoned shows a much flatter shape, that is also deeper vertically than it is wide horizontally.

Duncan

I am getting just a little bit worried about you Duncan. You are taking this far too seriously.
Then again you are producing some fantastic models, so what the He11.

Jim

[PR19_Kit]

Once they have been sanded and re-primed/defect checked, I will add my flap tracks, these will be the Airfix Tristar ones, with some reshaping. I was going to create new ones using laminated plasticard sanded to match the drawings, but when I tried the Tristar ones against the drawings, they are pretty close to what I need anyway 

Good use for Airfix Tri-Star flap-track fairings Duncan, if only because they're wrong for an RW Tri-Star anyway. 

Darned if I can see the 'wrongness' in the wing-fuselage position, looks great to me. As you say with two big 'fans on the back end and a T tail as well, the wing will need to be a long way back. A Trident 3B looks similarly 'wrongly' proportioned, and an MD-90 looks positively BIZARRE with such a long nose.

Wait till you see my BAC 1-11-800, although that could be quite a long wait........... 

[Captain Canada]

Awesome job so far....I love a/c of this layout....especially BIG ones !