1/144 Airfix 'Pepsi' Concorde |
Gallery Article by Ray Seppala
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Oct 2 2003
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The
Concorde has graced our skies for over 30 years, 27 of them in commercial
service with Air France and British Airways. November this year will see
the last commercial flight of this aircraft type. For most of their in
service lives the fleet of 14 Concordes have mainly worn the colours of their
parent airlines. On two occasions this has not been the case. In
1979 a British Airways aircraft (G-BOAD) had the left side of the aircraft
painted in Singapore Airlines livery for joint operations with that airline.
On the second occasion Air France Concorde F-BTSD was repainted to launch a $500
million advertising campaign for Pepsi. The aircraft flew in these colours
for only weeks! The scheme took 2000 man hours to apply and used 200
litres of paint.
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This
is the Airfix kit built out of the box, I decided to drop the elevons
(aileron/elevators) and split the rudder as this is the way these control
surfaces are when the beast is parked. This build took a while as I
couldn't get the tail logo to my liking and I kept putting on the bottom of my
'to do' list. After 3 attempts I finally got the tail pattern to an
acceptable point and finished the model this year. The decal is by
Fightpath and came free with an issue of Russell Brown's Airline Modeller.
I
used Tamiya white and Testors Ford engine blue for the fuselage and wings, the
engine exhausts were finished in Tamiya metallic grey and the landing gear was
finished in Humbrol silver. I also used Testors clear to fill the side
cockpit windows rather than use the supplied transparencies.