Anigrand 1:72 Boeing C-98 Clipper

I finally decided to buy this kit..  

The bags with parts, everything is casted crisp and nice, no bubbles in the resin 

The beaching trolley, flightdeck and tail parts 

Front sections of the fuselage / hull 

Rear sections 

Upper wing halves 

Lower wing halves 

Tail parts 

Tiny parts like propellers, transparent windows, engine parts etc 

Decal sheet no 1 

The other decal sheet 

The manual 

And the C-98 version painting and decal guide.
I’m planning to make a bare metal Pan Am Clipper version of it.. 

A 1:72 scale figure for scale 

Just a quick fit to see the size of this magnificent plane 

And a complete dry fit to look what the end result will be.. 

Quite impressive 🙂 , a real beauty!  

The 1:72 Piper Cub for scale.. 

Last week I decided to build this poor fit kit into a smooth desktop model. Too much errors and low quality resin parts, so I decided to keep it a simple build. 

Filler for the wide gap between the wing parts, and a lot of careful sanding to keep the thin resin wing structure intact 

The transparent window parts.. very poor fit and 5 pieces missing! So I decided to use filler to get a complete smooth fuselage, and I will use spare black window decals after the paint job. Also did a dry fit of the wings; bad. Will also need filling and a lot of sanding.  

The transparent cockpit window didn’t fit at all! It kept falling into the fuselage during dry fit, as it was not wide enough for the fuselage cockpit edges.
Also too small at the sides, so I needed to make an extra window to fill that gap.

As you can see, I used transparent Evergreen Plasticard to make a top and bottom support for the cockpit window. This way it has support so it won’t fall into the fuselage. Later I will cut the supports to the shape of the window-fuselage edges.

By the way: the resin cockpit was such poor fit that I decided not to use it.  

Here you can see the better fit thanks to the transparent supports. 

Still needs adjustment, filling and sanding when attached. 

Removed the white sheet styrene aft window parts and replaced it with transparent plasticard pieces. After attachment I will fill and sand these aft windows so they become one with the fuselage. 

The side windows in front of the wing roots also sanded smooth with the fuselage. They will be replaced by window decals later. 

I decided to use a custom model plane stand for showing the model, instead of the poorly detailed resin trolley from the kit.
Therefore I need to make 2 holes in the fuselage for attachment; 1 for an axle and 1 for the screw that attaches the model to the stand. I glued the receiving screw part to the fuselage for a firm grip. 

Dry test fit of the fuselage halves after drilling the holes 

I also made a fuselage support. During test fit I noticed that the fuselage can be ‘squeezed’ a little in the middle, and as the resin wings + engines have quite a weight I want to prevent the wings from dropping downwards. So with this styrene support the fuselage has more strength overall. 

Test fit, attached to the stand 

Looks good so far! 

Glued the fuselage halves together, and applied filler to the gaps 

After that sanding the fuselage 

I keep admiring the beautiful shape of this majestic plane.. 

Wings and tail parts attached, and dry fit of the props. 

This kit is quite big and heavy, all that resin.. just like my C-5 Galaxy kit