Revell 1:144 - Boeing 777 -300ER

Ive built MANY commercial aircraft kits over decades. This is the best-fitting, no flashing, extremely little warping, kit Ive ever built. A bit of a windex wash of the parts and even my acrylic paints stick like hell.

Overall good however the decals are a pain in the ass

Though I’m happy with the result, this kit was unnecessarily difficult to build. There are shortcomings in design, and the decals are probably the worst I have ever worked with. In my opinion, their skill level 4 rating is due to the decals. I selected this kit specifically due to engine details. Airliner kits usually include a low-detail disk representing the fan blades, but the Revell kit includes detailed fan blades molded to a hub. There are two of these that mesh together to form a complete set of blades that (theoretically) can turn and fit with close tolerances in the engine inlet. Unfortunately, Revell chose to mount the blades in a complicated manner and they really don’t turn freely. Nonetheless, the engine detail looks great and really adds to the scale accuracy of the model. Revell could make another significant improvement by separately molding the wheels from the tires so modelers can achieve a clean result. This has been a stumbling point in airliner kits for decades. The fuselage halves fit together very well. There are extra-small locator pins and holes that work nicely. Strangely, those are the only locator pins in the kit. There are numerous antenna fins that attach to the fuselage for added detail, but they don’t have locator pins to anchor them, so several brushed off during construction despite careful handling. I had to recreate some of these that were permanently lost. The front landing gear is fairly well done, but the front strut involves a joint that would greatly benefit from a locator pin. The main landing gear support struts are unnecessarily difficult to install. They attach to the gear bay by sitting on a side shelf rather than fitting into a socket. The attachment points on the main struts are more definitive but, with the opposite end constantly falling off the shelf, the installation is a struggle. Also, a small support arm on each support strut has no clear attachment point on the landing gear struts. The main wings are well-designed. The entire structure mounts into the bottom of the fuselage; great for a solid joint and precise wing alignment. Oddly, portions of the left and right wings are molded into the fuselage, making painting more difficult. I opted not to paint these, so my plane is flawed. The horizontal stabilizers mount using thick pins rather than tabs and slots. They make installation more difficult for no apparent advantage. The choice of aircraft lights is peculiar. There are red navigation lights on the top and bottom of the fuselage, but there are no navigation lights on the wing tips. There are landing lights on the front gear strut, but no landing lights in the wing roots. As for painting, there are fuselage templates that the builder must cut from the instructions, tape end-to-end and, somehow, use for painting the flowing blue portion of the underbody. There are no instructions for how to use them, so I opted to tape my kit manually and it came out pretty well. I would give the model 5 stars for its attempt to include better detail than a typical airliner kit. However, the decals drag the rating down to 4 stars. In my opinion, the decals are much, much too thin and they cling too aggressively, so positioning is extremely difficult. When the decals are wet, they become similar to a scummy film that folds over itself so easily it is almost impossible to avoid. Once it folds over itself, it becomes very difficult to determine what side it has folder over, the front or the back. Brushing or repositioning the decals with instruments can suddenly result in folding over. Moving the decals along the model surface can cause them to fold under, even when flooded with water and/or decal positioning solution. Given all of this, the following are the steps I will follow if I buy another one of these kits. [Note: I applied the decals to the fuselage before attaching the wings or horizontal stabilizers. I applied decal setting solution followed by clear lacquer when one side of the fuselage was complete before beginning the opposite side.] First, plan the application of each decal to minimize the need for repositioning. Use large amounts of water and decal solution to nudge them into position with a brush and tweezers, being particularly careful around the edges. Second, cut decals that are longer than two inches. For example, I would cut the striping and window decals to two-inch sections that are more manageable to work with and, if they become rolled over, are easier to unravel. I spent at least 1 ½ hours removing and painstakingly unraveling the main stripe decal from the left side of the fuselage. Three, for each engine, there is a single decal composed of a red stripe the width of a fine thread. Cut this decal in half so you are not trying to align the decal on both sides of the engine at the same time. Consider cutting the printed notations from this red stripe and installing them separately. I hope these notes and comments are helpful.

So many tiny pieces very difficult to glue! Missing pieces specifically the landing components! I didn't understand a thing about all the pieces to put together! Waste of time and money! Sell things that are possible to put together! Check the photo, that's all I was able to put together, now the engine parts have components that are impossible to put together because they are different sizes!!! Hello!!!!!

Great kit and parts fit but it is a re-issue of the Zvezda 1/144 777 mold and pricier.

Produto excelente qualidade!!!

Absolute crap, not worth 50c do not waste your money!!

金型が良くできていて、左右の胴体や翼の上下がきちんと合います。７７７－３００は多くの航空会社で使われているので自分デカールを作れば、好きな飛行機を作ることができます。私はスイス航空の飛行機を作りました。タイトルにも書いたように、エンジンの回転部分をきちんと作れば、ドライヤーの風でくるくる勢いよく回るところが気に入っています。 ただ難点は、現物あわせでブレードを切って直径を小さくしてやらないと回転しないことです。

The revell Boeing 777-300 is very accurate in detail. I am an avid airliner spotter and I also collect good accurate airliner models from revell and zvedza

Es una maqueta de Revell, esta marca está caracterizada por hacer maquetas de buena calidad, sin grandes rebabas y encajan perfectamente, y esta es una más. No pongo fotos pues aún no la monté. Atención, no es una maqueta montada, es una maqueta de plástico para montar, con sus instrucciones, llevan su tiempo a montar, ideal para los aficionados de las maquetas, prestar atención a las piezas pequeñas. No trae pintura ni pegamento. Es una maqueta ideal para aficionados de la aviación comercial