1/200 Hasegawa Qantas 777-300

by Stephen Thrum

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Here is a Hasegawa 1:200 Boeing 777-300 finished in a hypothetical new colour scheme for QANTAS. To cut a very long and arduous story short, I built this model four years ago for a client who claimed he worked for QANTAS. At the time I believed I was then contracted to QANTAS to devise a new overall colour scheme, plus a series of special themed paint schemes (This followed on from my QANTAS 767 "The Boy from Oz" which at the time was residing at QANTAS' Sydney base. Alas, the guy was totally bogus! All was not lost though, as one of QANTAS investigators took this model down to Sydney for further review.

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As can be seen, the new colour scheme represented a colourful departure from the otherwise plain white fuselage of QANTAS' existing scheme. I chose a rich metallic Burgundy red for the main colour, highlighted in Gold trim. The lower fuselage was also finished in gold, with several accent stripes. The main stripe sweeps up the leading edge of the tail as per the current scheme. These colours were also reflected on the engine nacelles.

I chose also to split the QANTAS fleet up into operational divisions, which could be readily identified at the airport or in the sky as to their use. All were to be dark, rich metallic colours. As here, International aircraft were to be a combination of Burgundy/Gold. For Domestic operations a combination of Dark Blue/Gold was to be used (reflecting back on TAA, which QANTAS had bought out to begin their domestic services), and for Regional operations, a Dark Green/Gold combination . (This reflecting on the country/bush operations)

Sadly, QANTAS felt that the scheme was too much like DHL's, but hey, at least they did consider it!

Stephen

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