Boeing 707

Stephan Ryll That's a cool idea Nathan

Nathan Dempsey I've been wanting to do one of these for a while. Itll be a great ghost project while working on other things.

Bryn Crandell Very cool. Looking forward to watching.

Markus Antonius This tooling from Ertl is just a pain in the back!

Greg Baker I've been looking to add the Airfix one... is the Ark one better?

Matthew A I'd say stick to the airfix kit - I'm a fan of Frog, that's why I'm after this one. The molds are now rather tired where as Airfix have cleaned theirs up.

Greg Baker I think i've Crossed over into "barely identifiable in the background" territory for my Area 88 builds with this one...

Matthew A Welcome to the club

Greg Baker Haha! I've looked at this kit several times. The 707 shows up in Tintin, so I'll be after the 1/72 Heller kit eventually... but the barest excuse was all it took to put this one in my sights.

Matthew A I've hundreds of projects and the list keeps growing daily - Who needs excuses

Germen V nice one, congrats

Hugo Oliveira Thanks Germen. I will improve it in the next days. Cheers

Hugo Oliveira Ddid some improval in the painting. Now I can say it´s finish

Donald Dickson II Choppa, not really an airliner though. Yes, it is based on the 707, but its a military tanker. So you can justify watching that way.

Julian, thank you!

Donald Dickson II Almost done. Only have to put the landing gear and doors on then do the decals. I have them in a zip lock taped to the front door to try to let the sun bleach out the yellowing. Only problem is getting them to come off the backing. I experimented with the decal provided for the boom. I painted the red parts, so the decals were useless.

They did not break apart which was good. But they would not come off the backing! Not without destroying them. I may have to get some decal paper, scan them and print up new ones.

Choppa Nutta shaping up nice and quick this one

Donald Dickson II Well, it is done for the moment. Have to wait to see if the sun can work some magic on those decals. I am NOT putting on the landing gear until the very last thing. They are not at all that sturdy and I KNOW I would snap them off doing the decals. So back to the C-54 now.

Michael T Looking real good !!. I wimped out and painted mine the dual sky gray that the air force use's today. the decals for my E-3 AWACS worked well. The E=3 ran into a problem....I was decaling it and..... Dropped it !took off both out board engine's all the landing gear doors and snapped the right side main gear in half.....I think I can save it. I'll put up some pic's when there both complete.

Donald Dickson II Oh man that sucks! I hope you are able to rescue it. I did not go with the grey and white scheme because of the odd scale of the model. I can't get any decals that would come from the time frame that paint scheme is on the plane.

Donald Dickson II Well, it is as finished as I can get it. I got two decals to come off the sheet, barely. I cant find any after market in 1/144, which I would run with if even a hair small. I did a high resolution scan and tried to print them to no avail. I may take them to Staples and see if they can print them. But short of that, I am out of options.

Couple other things. You will notice the lack of glass in the cock pit. Thats because there was none in the kit. It was meant to simply have holes there. I toyed with the idea of making windows with the clear parts maker, but decided to leave it as it was meant to be. The other is I left the copyright marks on the tail. I usually remove those, as I am sure everyone else does. But I liked the idea of it having the 1957 date on it.

Choppa Nutta wow..... 1957 !!
yeah, I'd have left the date on it too
looking good bud

Dutch Ken, Thanks for detailing your conversion. Yes, many changes in antennae / engine fit depending on timeframe depicted. Would love to see some pictures! R/ Dutch

Mike Torres Nice, I might try that on my kit. Thanks

Mike Torres I bought the kits in the 80's not for to much, new decals,paint. I have 3 doyusha's, 4 Hellers,and 3 AMT's in KC kits . I am ready for a 707/KC build-a-thon.luckily i have room for the beasts.

Ray Seppala Cheers Mike, since this one I have built the Airfix E-3 as a B707 in the low vis scheme. I also have a Heller B707 and multiple AMT and Heller KC-135 kits to go with the Italeri KC-135R I completed a couple of years ago. I don't have the space at the moment but what the heck! If I like a scheme I will build it. A 'Speckle Trout' KC-135E is on the cards for the next build.

Bill Spargo Another lot of hard work, looks great.

Bill Spargo A lot of work making this beauty, you have spent some massive hours making it this good Dutch. My kit had a bad upper surface wing joint and a lot of work filing down the top of the fin to match the lower section. Love it.

Ray Seppala Glenn, I have a spare set of these, your if you want them.

Glenn . Yes i'm interested lets no what you want for them!