Condor

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July 28, 2022
Bought myself some junk lately 🙂
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July 28, 2022
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July 28, 2022
And cleaned it a bit today. The original DDR silver and black paints hardly react to Wamod's cleaner 🙂
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July 30, 2022
Hereby I announce I have joined the (in)famous Fellowship of The Pink Primer 😛
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August 4, 2022
The builder glued the engine nacelles upside down, so I have to break them off and reglue correctly (that DDR glue is really strong 😄)
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August 28, 2022
Rainy weekends always speed up the projects 🙂
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August 29, 2022
Tail skid is missing, need to add it.
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August 28, 2022
I wanted to have the rivets and panel lines hardly visible on the white part, so I sanded the white primer a bit, so the raised details sport the darker primer underneath.
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August 28, 2022
Then added the missing lines and rivets and sprayed last white layer on the top.
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August 28, 2022
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August 28, 2022
Finished the main spraying, however the paint peeled off here and there.
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October 22, 2022
Once I thought of the home stretch, then it fell down from my workbench 🙁
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October 22, 2022
But as I bought the very last stock of this decal set I decided to fix it.
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October 22, 2022
In order to avoid overspray near the engines, I experimented with these hand made "fading alu" decals 🙂
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October 22, 2022
And that's the current state, couple of details waiting to be added.
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November 25, 2022
I impressed myself tonight 😮
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November 27, 2022
Time for whiskers... and new gear door, damn it :/ Btw. You can see here my poor windshield alignment too.
And the silver decals, which turned out to be too thick 🙁
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December 4, 2022
It turned out it's too big to fit into my biggest scenery set - The Hangar 🙁
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52 28 July 2022, 20:26

Alex K
Following...

29 July 2022, 10:17

Maciej Bellos
Should I bring out my dismantled one? Following your progress.

29 July 2022, 13:24

Łukasz Gliński
Sure, why not? I was considering disassembling it too 🙂

29 July 2022, 13:33

Andy Ball
Check there's no lead in that paint you're removing! Good start!

4 August 2022, 22:06

Adam Gudynowski
Are ALL wheels turning? 😉

16 August 2022, 07:33

Łukasz Gliński
Temporarily not, as a guy called Adam broke down one set yesterday 😛

16 August 2022, 08:20

Łukasz Gliński
Rainy weekends speed up the projects usually and this one was no different.
I finished the main spraying, however paint has peeled off here and there.
And I have to add black nose, white wingwalks and brushpaint the engine supports.
The oldest 727s have quite complex painting schemes I have to admit.

28 August 2022, 18:50

Łukasz Gliński
You might have been wondering why there were no new pics for last few weeks - well, I managed to drop it from my workbench during decalling 🙁
But as I bought the very last stock of this decal set I decided to fix it and you can behold the results now 🙂
I think I can see the finish line - decided to add underside antenna, fuel release valves, tail skid, landing lights and front gear doors - all to be scratchbuilt.

22 October 2022, 20:47

Ben M
Well this came out well despite the problems!

22 October 2022, 21:26

Michael Kohl
beautiful project. good luck on the final meters.

23 October 2022, 00:18

Andy Ball
She went a bit wide-bodied for a bit, but you've rescued her! She could be on the apron at Palma de Mallorca in 1978 waiting to take her passengers back to Munich after their fortnight in the Hotel Vistamer!!

23 October 2022, 14:42

Adam Gudynowski
Great idea with sanding the rivets. Looks good.

24 October 2022, 07:35

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks a lot mates. 👍
Will try to simulate that A, once she's completed. 😉
It turned out today was the day on incredibly steady hands and I can announce the overwing exits to be done (scratch-decalled using different black stripes).
Used the Revell's 1/144 Germania decal as a template.

25 November 2022, 21:32

Łukasz Gliński
And across the finish line! Finally 😉
That was an adventurous build I have to admit.
Even more so, when trying to take pics, it's just too big, doesn't fit into my biggest scenery set - The Hangar 😮
So I had to improvise, enjoy

4 December 2022, 17:11

gorby
It looks beautiful.
Very nice paint job.

4 December 2022, 17:37

Robert Podkoński
Good work, Łukasz!

4 December 2022, 18:28

Marius
Congratulations Lukasz on the beautiful model and hard work. It all payed off in the end.
That picture number 12 I know very well, had it only this year two times.

4 December 2022, 18:54

Michael Kohl
Nice that you pushed this one over the finish line. The 727 is one of the most beautiful jet plane in my opinion. During my apprenticeship I have been able to appreciate the very last Lufthansa one before it was retired. Nice to see its elegant lines in Condor livery (back then still a subsidiary of Lufthansa).

4 December 2022, 19:16

Alex K
Simply beautiful! 👍 👍

4 December 2022, 20:37

Łukasz Gliński
Many thanks mates, much appreciated 👍
@Michael: Lucky you, I was born simply too late 😉
@Marius: Yeah, that was really hard to continue. Should I have the second decal set available, this one would have flied straight into the dustbin 😄
@Gorby: I like that colour set too 🙂

4 December 2022, 20:41

Adam Gudynowski
Good job. Perfect restoration. You brought back new life to this model.

12 December 2022, 09:21