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Finally after fighting this thing for nearly a year; I can now declare this model done.


This is Academy's 1/72 scale Boeing B-377 Stratocruiser civilian airliner done in Pan American Airlines markings. This bird is the Pan Am 'Clipper Nightingale'. I chose these markings because they looked better than the alternative and not because of ease of application! Quite the opposite in fact. Here it is all complete:

Terminal-eye view:



Slightly higher angle from then rear:



Different angle again (I wanted to shoot from higher up but missed):



Final upper view:



This shot has an Exacto knife in it for size reference to show what a 'horse' this thing is!




Okay, now I feel much better having finished at least one of these. Hopefully more of them will get done soon. It isn't perfect; in fact the decals really suck wind and I had a real tough time with them. I also had to somehow add weight to the nose some more since for some reason this was quite the tail sitter.

I'll show those details about this build when I next post in the Maddog Manufacturing Thread after next weekend. For now, just check the final model out at your leisure.

Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

That turned out very beautiful! IIRC, the aircraft was a modification of the basic B-29 design. The same wings and power plants mounted on a new designed larger fuselage. With that lineage, of course it's gonna be BIG!!!

Thanks Carlos! She is a pretty one in pics. She does have a few issues still that can be seen close up, but I'm happy. I did far better on the finish with this one than I did with the old DC-6. Yeah, she is a modification of the B-29. They made it into a C-97 by adding the new larger, wider fuselage for carrying more cargo. Then someone at Boeing realized that if they put seats inside and added a deck below for a bar/lounge, it would be the essence of luxury air travel. Thus was born the B-377.

Nice looking build and big.

Wow, very nice indeed Duke! Cool bird man.

Big and shiny! Love it!

Thanks guys! I appreciate the compliments very much! They do keep me motivated to keep on building.

Blacksheep, she is indeed very big!

That is a beautiful looking build Mark - Nice work!

Those civil markings look very good!

Thanks Portman! She does look good on the shelf.

Thanks Borg! I did have some issues with them, but overall they went down okay. Up close, you can see where some tended to wrinkle a bit when I tried to press them flat.