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The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby VH-WAL » Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:35 am

It is pretty much done, as always no-where near perfect I had issues with the decals over complex curves and not quite fitting exactly in places, still not bad. Got sucked in by the decal instruction re the positioning of the entrance door outline on the fuselage! It should be miles down lower, still I am not going to get riled by it it would take a major operation to remove the incorrectly place outline. Why the High and Mighty? well even though it is the least good looking of postwar piston airliners but Ernest K Gann author of the High and Mighty and other great aviation books used to fly these for TAL, this looks pretty good in the cabinet.
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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby hrtpaul » Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:39 am

Very, very nice Wally. That looks amazing. Well done mate :)
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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby RayS » Wed Dec 09, 2015 12:55 pm

Very nice, I want one!
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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby Adam the Akrodude » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:09 pm

Outstanding Wally! I never read this book of Gann's but thoroughly enjoyed "Fate is the Hunter".

Top marks once again on this build ol' chap!

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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby kfutter » Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:17 pm

Well, that looks absolutely fantastic, Wal! So much better than the Minicraft one I'm working on. Colour me impressed.

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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby Graeme H » Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:35 am

Good one Wal
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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby tor lives » Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:10 am

She turned out just lovely Wal.....and what a great colour scheme. I wanna do one of these one day, only mine will be in Israeli Air Force (VIP) colours.
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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby VH-WAL » Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:01 am

Thanks guys, loving this big bugger on the shelf, I am going through a propliner craze at the moment, just started rescribing a Heller L749, then when I get rid of the other crap on the bench (including Airfix Concorde - shudder) I might also start on my DC-7 conversion
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Re: The High and Mighty, Transocean Stratocruiser 1/72

Postby F-27pax » Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:32 pm

That looks spectacular!! I'm looking forward to those other big models.

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