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Eastern Airlines DC-8
This is the 1/144 Minicraft DC-8-63 built straight from the box. This particular a/c, N8755, was the 503rd out of a total of 556 DC-8s built. It was delivered to Eastern on 14 December 1969. It was later operated as a freighter by [...]
Airliners!
I'm currently working on a 1/144 Minicraft DC-8 and Zvezda Tu-154M as a change of pace. I realized that the last airliners I built were the A330 and 767 shown here. I thought I would share them. The A330 is a Revell kit built in 1998. [...]
1/144 Minicraft conversion B-50
This is a B-50 created from a Minicraft B-29a and a Minicraft C-97. Both are in 1/144 scale.
I started by cutting the Vertical tail off both kits. I then cut out the gunners cabin from the B-29 and placed it in the C-97's vertical fin. [...]
R6D VR-21 Barbers Point, Hawaii 1963 -1966
This aircraft was flown by a very good friend of mine when he was assigned to VR-21 in Hawaii. Aside from various transport duties it was used as transportation for two Admirals. One was Cincpac and the other was Cincpacflt. Other duties [...]
Another Airliner
Here's another Western Pacific billboard airliner.
Minicraft 1/144 737 withn Daco decals. I'll let you figure out who the livery represents.
Built OOB. I used so much acrylic clear on it I floated one of the stencils loose.
Something Different
The now defunct Western Pacific airlines was one of the first leasing their aircraft as "Flying Billboards". They advertised mainly for casinos, cartoon shows & schools such as this one.
This is Minicrafts's 737-300 with Daco [...]
