1/144 Nitto vs Revell 747

[RayS]

I hear ya about not going too far overboard with the Nitto 747 corrections......but maybe a nice set of After Market engines may be in order. The kit-supplied engines are so bad they look like toys .
TOR

I hadn't got as far as looking at the engines but I think that'll be on the cards if the kit ones are crap as you say. So what engines are required for the orange Braniff one above?

Good old Pratt and Whitney JT-9Ds Paul, I might have a spare set from a Revell kit. They may be partially or fully assembled without paint that is. Are you interested?

[tor lives]

I hear ya about not going too far overboard with the Nitto 747 corrections......but maybe a nice set of After Market engines may be in order. The kit-supplied engines are so bad they look like toys .
TOR

I hadn't got as far as looking at the engines but I think that'll be on the cards if the kit ones are crap as you say. So what engines are required for the orange Braniff one above?

As Ray mentions, the donks on your pictured Braniff 741 are the big, bad Pratt & Whitney JT-9s. The photo you have put up is actually very interesting. It appears that the # 1 donk is a D (note the open aux blower doors), while the # 2 is a D-7 . I never knew that you could mix and match engines like that.
TOR

[Ansett A330]

The photo you have put up is actually very interesting. It appears that the # 1 donk is a D (note the open aux blower doors), while the # 2 is a D-7 . I never knew that you could mix and match engines like that.
TOR

Depending on when that photo was taken I'd guess that the D-7 was a spare for one of their 747SPs that they 'borrowed" to keep their primary 747 operational.

I have no idea what the difference is between a D-3 and a D-7 (apart from higher power from the latter which could probably be derated to match the former) but can imagine that the process wouldn't be much different to the process of rotating same brand engines (RR and GE) from 767s to 747s and vice versa like QF used to do? (Perhaps there is a LAME somewhere out there that can explain?)

Lots of interesting References for this out there too :

https://bangshift.com/general-news/unhi ... oeing-747/

http://www.braniffpages.com/1965/1965.html

Will be watching this one to see how it turns out ...

[Ansett A330]

Ok guys. I picked up a Nitto 747 at expo without knowing it was a POS ...

Hang on ... I thought you had visited "Graeme's Model Emporium"?

Obviously you missed out on Lecture 144/15 "How inaccurate is the Nitto/Entex/Doyusha 1:144 747 - let me list the ways ...".

(And then there is the real gem : Lecture 144/42 "How to avoid using more that two dozen Air Sickness Bags when opening the box of the Kepuyan 1:144 747-300". Pretty short Lecture that one actually - "Just don't open the box!")

[RayS]

I picked up the Kepuyan kit many years ago, ended up letting one of my young lads build it and hang it from their ceiling. All that is left are the oddly shaped engines in the spares box. I thought I could use them for a What If one day.

[Ansett A330]

Maybe the Nitto Kit's best use is as a basis for the Boeing CX-X submission :

http://www.boeingimages.com/archive/Thr ... HZW9G.html

[RayS]

Maybe the Nitto Kit's best use is as a basis for the Boeing CX-X submission :

http://www.boeingimages.com/archive/Thr ... HZW9G.html

No!!!!! Don't post that Rob, now you have got silly scratch building ideas going around my head in addition to the one I just started

[Ansett A330]

Go on you know you want to!

Just imagine having the three CX-HLS contenders lined up in your Showcase :

[tor lives]

Go on you know you want to! Just imagine having the three CX-HLS contenders lined up in your Showcase :

Is it beyond the realms of possibility that you yourself might actually build something at some stage Greg?
TOR

[hrtpaul]

How bout no. It'll be a 747 and a bright orange one at that.