Thought I'd post some photos of my latest build, Paper-Replika's A380 in Emirates livery. Not sure what scale it is. Perhaps 1/200th? Maybe even smaller? It builds into a model that is 8 5/8ths inches (22 cm) long, with a wingspan of 9 1/4 inches (about 23.4 cm).
This model was a first for me. All the other airliners I've done have had fuselages with circular cross sections, and this one is an oval. The shape is achieved with the use of two supplied formers; I doubled the number in the center section to add strength. All in all, it is nice kit with few problems. There are a few issues, though, which I tried to address. Among them:
-- Other than a vague illustration in the instructions, there is no definitive indication of where the wing box should be attached. I used photos and drawings online to figure it out, and I also scalloped the fore and aft edges of the wing box to make them more accurate than the straight-edged depiction in the kit.
-- Once you get the wing box on, there are no definitive markings (again, other than the line drawing in the instructions) telling you where the wing should be attached or at what angle. Again, I relied on photos and drawings online.
-- if you use the kit parts to cap the mating surface of the wings, the wings will wind up too thin. The photos and drawings I found show the wing is pretty thick where it joins the fuselage, so I glued pieces of chopsticks behind the leading edges to get the right width.
-- The horizontal and vertical stabilizers on the real airplane have small fillets at the leading edge where they attach to the fuselage, but the kit omits them. I added some from white and gray cardstock.
I ditched the kit's flap-track fairings and cut replacements from laminated gray cardstock. I also added the various antennas, from white cardstock. The markings on the rear contain an error; there should be a bit of a black stripe on the rear fuselage that swooshes up and meets with the black on the tail. The stripe on the fuselage is just red.
This model was a first for me. All the other airliners I've done have had fuselages with circular cross sections, and this one is an oval. The shape is achieved with the use of two supplied formers; I doubled the number in the center section to add strength. All in all, it is nice kit with few problems. There are a few issues, though, which I tried to address. Among them:
-- Other than a vague illustration in the instructions, there is no definitive indication of where the wing box should be attached. I used photos and drawings online to figure it out, and I also scalloped the fore and aft edges of the wing box to make them more accurate than the straight-edged depiction in the kit.
-- Once you get the wing box on, there are no definitive markings (again, other than the line drawing in the instructions) telling you where the wing should be attached or at what angle. Again, I relied on photos and drawings online.
-- if you use the kit parts to cap the mating surface of the wings, the wings will wind up too thin. The photos and drawings I found show the wing is pretty thick where it joins the fuselage, so I glued pieces of chopsticks behind the leading edges to get the right width.
-- The horizontal and vertical stabilizers on the real airplane have small fillets at the leading edge where they attach to the fuselage, but the kit omits them. I added some from white and gray cardstock.
I ditched the kit's flap-track fairings and cut replacements from laminated gray cardstock. I also added the various antennas, from white cardstock. The markings on the rear contain an error; there should be a bit of a black stripe on the rear fuselage that swooshes up and meets with the black on the tail. The stripe on the fuselage is just red.
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