201117: Starting with this. Minicraft did poorly with this kit: soft detail, deep tranches for door outlines, bad mould alignment, etc.
201117: Starting with this. Minicraft did poorly with this kit: soft detail, deep trenches for door outlines, bad mould alignment, etc.
201117: Starting with this. Minicraft did poorly with this kit: soft detail, deep tranches for door outlines, bad mould alignment, etc.
201117: cockpit window part is tiny. Must have been a cramped cockpit.
201117: Kit markings (I'll use these, with the right N number)
201118: Initial tape-up reveals soft detail, loose fit. Installed a spar to help strengthen the aft horizontal stabilizer.
201118: Mold misalignment. Used CA to build up the step before filing & sanding smooth.
201118: Mold quality and fit of this c.1998 kit is reminiscent of 1960's plastic kits.
201118: Poster putty in the wheel wells to help align the (closed) landing grea doors.
201118: Sealing the landing grea doors. Crummy fit.
201118: Not sure how to fix this rather large void btw doors and nacelle.
201118: Void on the left wing is only half as crummy.
201119: Installing a socket for the mounting pedestal.
201119: Installing a socket for the mounting pedestal.
201119: Always sign your artwork! Note 5-min epoxy to reinforce the seams (bottom seam, too).
201119: Sealing the forward Landing Gear doors. The smaller rectangular door was just plain omitted in the kit, and was filled with 5-min epoxy.
201119: The clear canopy fit surprisingly well.
201119: Filling the large trenches denoting the fuselage doors. I forgot to phothograph the 12 grams lead tyre weight in the nose (sealed in place with 5-min epoxy).
201119: Mounting socket tack welded with CA, the area will now be flooded with 5-min epoxy.
201119: Mounting socket and wheel wells flooded with 5-min epoxy.
201119: Mounting socket filed flush with underside.
201119: Nose looks a bit too pointy in plan and profile...
201119: Nose filled with 5-min epoxy and filed to a more blunt shape (after sanding).
201121: Installed a wing spar to help set dihedral on the soft plastic.
201121: Propellers are poorly cast in the same fragile, soft plastic. Tricky to remove without breaking.
201124: Primed and ready for paint. Primer is WM rattlecan Primer Grey (neutral grey).
201124: Primed and ready for paint. Primer is WM rattlecan Primer Grey (neutral grey).
201124: Primed and ready for paint. Primer is WM rattlecan Primer Grey (neutral grey).
201126: White topcoat. Paint is WM rattlecan Gloss White.
201126: White topcoat. Paint is WM rattlecan Gloss White.
201205: Alclad II Paints. Cheatline was marked with a paper template cut from a Xerox of the kit decals.
201205: Alclad II Paints. Cheatline was marked with a paper template cut from a Xerox of the kit decals.
201205: Alclad II Paints. Cheatline was marked with a paper template cut from a Xerox of the kit decals.
201205: Alclad II Paints. Cheatline was marked with a paper template cut from a Xerox of the kit decals.
201211: Decal application. Kit decals are pretty good but will not tolerate abuse from decal seetting solution.
210102: De-icing boot decals were too hard to deal with so I replaced with strips of Black Chrome Bare Metal Foil. Radome is black rattlecan paint.
210102: De-icing boot decals were too hard to deal with so I replaced with strips of Black Chrome Bare Metal Foil. Radome is black rattlecan paint.
L-1049C-55-83 N6218C Eastern Airlines lost In-flight collision
L-1049C-55-83 N6218C Eastern Airlines lost In-flight collision
The other guy.
December 4, 1965, mid-air collision between Eastern Air Lines Flight 853 (N6218C) and Trans World Airlines Flight 42 (N748TW)
The remains of N6218C after a successful crash-landing and post-crash fire
Комментарии
21 9 December 2021, 05:18
Greg Baker So nice! I love this plane and you've done it justice!
9 December 2021, 06:58
Michael Kohl What a crappy base. What a nice model. Impressive performance on your side. Thanx for sharing the interesting background story. The L1049 is just a superelegant plane. Pitty that Lufthansa had to cancel their project to bring one into flying condition again.
L-1049G Super Constellation, Eastern Air Lines N6218C, c. 1965
(Minicraft Super Constellation in 1/144 scale, kit # 14491 c. 2002, first released 1998)
On December 4, 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 853 (N6218C), a Lockheed Super Constellation en route from Boston to Newark, collided in mid-air with Trans World Airlines Flight 42 (N748TW), a Boeing 707-131B en route from San Francisco to JFK in New York, over Carmel, New York
The TWA 707 and the EAL Constellation approached the Carmel VORTAC at the same time. As the Constellation emerged from a cloud, First Officer Roger I. Holt Jr. saw the Boeing in his right side window at the 2 o'clock position. Holt shouted, "Look out," placed his hands on the control wheel, and made a rapid application of up elevator simultaneously with Captain White, causing crew members and passengers to be forced down into their seats.
Aboard the Boeing, the crew was preparing for arrival at JFK International, flying in clear air above an overcast sky with good visibility as they approached Carmel. On seeing an aircraft at his 10 o'clock position on what appeared to be a collision course Capt. Thomas H. Carroll immediately disengaged the autopilot, put the wheel hard over to the right, and pulled back on the yoke. His copilot, First Officer Leo M. Smith, also grabbed the controls and acted together with him. Before the aircraft could maneuver clear of the danger, two shocks were felt and the Boeing entered a steep dive; the Boeing's left wing had struck the tail of the Constellation and both aircraft were out of control.
The Boeing crew recovered from the dive, declared an emergency, and eventually made a safe landing on Runway 31L.
The Constellation continued to climb following the collision. The crew felt the aircraft shudder and begin a left-turning dive back into the clouds. There was no response from the controls or trim tabs, but the crew discovered that a degree of control was available by adjusting the throttles. The aircraft descended through solid clouds and a recovery was made below the clouds using throttles only. The pilots discovered a throttle setting that would maintain a descent in level attitude, but it was obvious to the pilots that the Constellation was badly damaged and that they needed to make an emergency landing.
Around two miles ahead, White spotted a pasture halfway up Hunt Mountain, a 900 ft ridge running perpendicular to the Constellation's flight path. He aligned the aircraft using asymmetric thrust, told passengers to brace themselves, and descended into the upward-sloping hillside with wheels and flaps retracted. At the last moment he jammed the throttles forward to pitch up the aircraft's nose, letting the Constellation pancake into the 15-percent slope.
The aircraft came to rest on the slope. The fuselage had been broken into three pieces, and all the engines had been separated from their nacelles. The cockpit and cabin crews survived the crash landing and worked both inside and outside the broken fuselage parts to evacuate the survivors from the wreckage, which was on fire. Survivors were transported to hospitals at Danbury, Connecticut; Mount Kisco, New York; and Carmel, New York, where two passengers later died of their injuries. Firefighters later discovered two bodies in the fuselage - that of a passenger in the forward section, and that of Captain White, who had returned to the cabin to help the passenger. Both had died from smoke inhalation.
The model represents one of the accident aircraft, L-1049G Super Constellation N6218C operating Eastern Airlines Flight 853.
The kit is almost entirely OOB with slight modifications to the nose and mounted on a brass pedestal. Aircraft N number markings were printed at home to depict accident aircraft. Paints are rattlecan grey and white, and AlClad II metallics.
Michael Kohl
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