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Article by Robert Leonard |
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Pan American
Airlines 747SP
This is the 1:144 scale Welsh Models 747SP in Pan Am livery. I built this vacuform kit in the fall of 1996. It was only the third vacuform kit I had ever built, after the 1:72 Rareplane AJ-2 Savage USN bomber and 1:144 Welsh Models 757-200 in Caledonian livery. The 747SP has always been my favorite 747, so this was a labor of love. Welsh Models are very good kits.
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Almost everything you need is included in the kit: Liveries Unlimited decals, white metal landing gear and resin engines. The parts fit together very well, just be careful when sanding out the pieces. The only scratch building I needed to do was boxing in the landing gear bays. Not the hardest task, but I wish Welsh Models would take a cue from Dynavector and provide vacuform landing gear bays. Paint job is very simple: Testors gloss white, SNJ, Testors Voodoo Gray (for the Boeing Gray) and Tamiya metallic gray for the Coroguard sections of the wings.