Boboeing 7474 Jumbobo

Tophe · June 08, 2018, 10:25:10 PM

In the 1970s (circa 1976, I was 12 year old), I built a Boeing 747 Heller 1/125 (about 1.85 ft long 1.56 ft wide), then in 2010, I changed a detail to make it what-if: 3 jets on one side, 1 on the other (http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,28067.0.html), but my wife says now it is too big, we have not at all enough room for it, so I will decrease its size in a true invention: Boeing 7474 (high little wings, short fuselage, hump less, 1/48).
Here is the basis I will start from:

Tophe · June 09, 2018, 02:05:06 AM

The butcher came and...

NARSES2 · June 09, 2018, 02:33:15 AM

A true Tophe design

PR19_Kit · June 09, 2018, 12:46:49 PM

Yeah, that Heller 747 is a LOT of plastic!

I could never have done that sawing job you did there Tophe, it would have broken my heart after all that hard work.

Tophe · June 14, 2018, 09:43:14 AM

And now I am using A LOT of putty, little layer by little layer, not to dissolve the plastic... $:-\$

TheChronicOne · June 14, 2018, 11:12:51 AM

Oh boy!!

The SP is going to be jealous.

Tophe · June 17, 2018, 10:37:32 AM

Thanks!

Now sanding, then adding putty again...

Tophe · June 24, 2018, 02:04:48 AM

Finishing the Mustang-T model made me sand again. Almost good result from a distance, but closer, the details are still bad, so putty again... $:-\$

Tophe · June 29, 2018, 11:43:12 AM

After another putty addition than sanding again, the result was acceptable for me:

So I started painting the underside:

Tophe · June 30, 2018, 03:18:37 AM

Painting the side above now. The area to cover is so big, I don't do it all at once.

Tophe · July 01, 2018, 02:23:45 AM

Now all blue, like a "normal" fuselage...
Remaining steps: drying, gluing the wing with 3 engines, maybe gluing the 4th engine on the fuselage, colouring (black) the canopy, 1/48, and... it will be finished.

TheChronicOne · July 01, 2018, 06:02:42 AM

Yeah buddy!! Time to start racking up them frequent flier miles.

Tophe · July 01, 2018, 06:31:15 AM

Thanks!
While... this is no more a 1/125 airliner, this is now a 1/48 single-seater (or maybe side-by-side two-seater, I will see).
No miles to win, just a smile is the goal...

TheChronicOne · July 01, 2018, 07:09:18 AM

Oh I get it now!!! Ha!! Even better.

Tophe · July 04, 2018, 09:40:21 AM

Thanks!

And now the model is finished...
Well, it is almost a normal Boeing (747): 4 jets with 2 on the port side and 2 on the starboard side, what's special? $:-\$