1/144 Minicraft Douglas DC-3B

Gallery Article by José Alvarez on Oct 30 2010

 

“PAN AMERICAN GRACE-AIRWAYS INC.”  PANAGRA

Hello Steve and fellow modelers.  Today I'm presenting you this jewel.  I always wanted to represent in a model the Panagra DC-3B because this was the company my father used to work for in the beginning of his professional live as a ATC Official in 1946 and ATC Director for the Civil Aviation Bureau.  This model used to fly the routes Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, La Paz, Lima and Limatambo in Perú, Quito, Guayaquil, Esmeraldas, Cuenca in Ecuador.  Sometimes they used interline alliances with other national companies to cover their domestic flights. 

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To achieve this scheme I used the Minicraft 1/144 Douglas DC-3B which comes with the United Airlines livery.  All I had to do is rescribed the fuselage panel lines once it was sanded and polished.  I painted the model with Model Master White Enamel for the upper fuselage and Humbrol Silver for the lower fuselage and the rest of the model.

PANAGRA and PAN AMERICAN GRACE – AIRWAYS INC. decals for the fuselage and wings are made by myself including fuselage and tail logos.  Then the decals are sealed with MicroScale Gloss varnish and the entire model is sealed with future.  

Hope you like it…!

Greetings from Quito-Ecuador

José Alvarez

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Photos and text © by José Alvarez