DA.C - View Single Post - New 1/144 Minicraft DC-8-71 kit has landed!

DavidMich · 11-12-2005, 07:32 PM

I snagged 2 of these hot off the truck at Hobbytown yesterday. The kit is their first to be from a CAD/CAM mould. The decals are Delta Airlines, drawn out by F-DCAL, and printed by Cartograf. The kit is awesome!, true to being a -71, the nacelles don't have the strakes normally found on the -73. The kit has parts to build a -73 model such as nose piece with the bigger inlet ducts, and the longer wingtips. The panel lines are spot on, and very well defined, not too deep. The only drawback, Minicraft still uses that queer clear cockpit piece.

11-12-2005, 07:32 PM	#1
DavidMich Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Back in MCO! Posts: 3,626	New 1/144 Minicraft DC-8-71 kit has landed! I snagged 2 of these hot off the truck at Hobbytown yesterday. The kit is their first to be from a CAD/CAM mould. The decals are Delta Airlines, drawn out by F-DCAL, and printed by Cartograf. The kit is awesome!, true to being a -71, the nacelles don't have the strakes normally found on the -73. The kit has parts to build a -73 model such as nose piece with the bigger inlet ducts, and the longer wingtips. The panel lines are spot on, and very well defined, not too deep. The only drawback, Minicraft still uses that queer clear cockpit piece. __________________ "So if man is 5, and the devil is 6, then that must make me 7,,,this honky's gone to heaven!"