As you know, the last passenger service of the McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 landed at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam on November 11, 2014, ending an era of almost half a century of the great three engined DC-10 and MD-11 service.
So I thought it appropriate to build a MD-11 in KLM colours.
I used the big model of the DC-10 by CM Card Models (see Scaldis, Zeist Bouwplaten or Prins Bouwplaten for availability), had it copied and repainted it with Paint Shop Pro. Scale is 1:65, so it is a big model, but it will fit with the other vintage ailrliners I have (see threads of Super Constellation, DC-6B and more recently DC-7C).
The MD-11 mainly differs from the DC-10 by an extension of 4 windows aft of the wing, and 5 windows in front. Also the wing fairing is somewhat larger. The most difficult adaption was the bulging center engine, to house the larger engines. The build itself is not especially complicated, so I didn't set up a building thread on the forum. The process of repainting a card model was desctribed in the thread on this forum on the DC-7C, about 2 or three years ago.
Here are some pictures of the results. Pic 1 is the original DC-10 model, now 15 years old. Pic 2 shows the MD-11 as a result of the repaint and the adaptations, with pics 3 and 4 a side and a front view. Pics 5, 6 and 7 show some details of the engines, and especially the tail engine. The background is a poster of a nice cloudy sky.
So I thought it appropriate to build a MD-11 in KLM colours.
I used the big model of the DC-10 by CM Card Models (see Scaldis, Zeist Bouwplaten or Prins Bouwplaten for availability), had it copied and repainted it with Paint Shop Pro. Scale is 1:65, so it is a big model, but it will fit with the other vintage ailrliners I have (see threads of Super Constellation, DC-6B and more recently DC-7C).
The MD-11 mainly differs from the DC-10 by an extension of 4 windows aft of the wing, and 5 windows in front. Also the wing fairing is somewhat larger. The most difficult adaption was the bulging center engine, to house the larger engines. The build itself is not especially complicated, so I didn't set up a building thread on the forum. The process of repainting a card model was desctribed in the thread on this forum on the DC-7C, about 2 or three years ago.
Here are some pictures of the results. Pic 1 is the original DC-10 model, now 15 years old. Pic 2 shows the MD-11 as a result of the repaint and the adaptations, with pics 3 and 4 a side and a front view. Pics 5, 6 and 7 show some details of the engines, and especially the tail engine. The background is a poster of a nice cloudy sky.
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