Another 1/72 Amodel Bandeirante kit #72395 was made.

In the Netherlands, despite being a small country, there was need to have an airline route in the end nineteen-eighties between the national Dutch Schiphol airport near Amsterdam and the Twente region with cities Almelo, Hengelo and Enschede in the East near the German border.

The flight over 120 km would be not even an hour but would feed into the large Amsterdam Schiphol airport. With local regional financial support “LUCHTVAARTMAATSCHAPPIJ TWENTE” the airline was established with a Freeway Air leased Bandeirante commuter aircraft with some 16 seats. Their first aircraft was registered PH-FWS but this was soon joined by another Bandeirante aircraft PH-FWT. The scheme was also changed with now the name TWENTE AIRLINES. Initially 5 flight were flown between the regional Twente airport and Schiphol but soon passenger demand dropped to 2 flights a day. But the operations were stopped January 1994 and the aircraft were transferred to ASL International.

The model will be made as one of the EMB-110 P Bandeirantes registration PH-FWT as operated by Twente Airlines. This aircraft entered service September 1990 with Twente Airlines and was leased from Freeway Air BV (ex XC-DUA). Twente Airlines flew this aircraft until January 1994.

The wing parts and engine nacelles were assembled as a sub-assembly. Sanding and puttying is needed.
 
  

The 2 large sub-assemblies fuselage and wing were joined with putty and sanding at the wing-fuselage joints.

NOTE: I later found out that the rear smaller cabin window at port should be closed up on this particular aircraft.

Rescribe some panellines, particularly at the fuselage spine.

I had made the SOVA-M P-95 kit and could re-use some of its masks.
 
  

The model got than the base grey airbrushed with thinned Revell Aqua 75 steingrau acrylic.
    

Airbrushed were a few layers of thinned Revell Aqua 05 weiss acrylic. Than followed a few gloss white coats with Gunze Sangyo Mr.Hobby H1 white acrylic 100% thinned with 90% Gunze acrylic thinner and 10% Gunze levelling thinner.
     

The white surfaces were glossy.  
 
 
Decalling with my own designed and made decals for Twente Airlines was done. These are full colour laser printed on a single decal sheet film. As the model is mainly white, no white print colour is needed.
If you want a decals sheet AIPD-188, let me know...
 

 
The masks were removed from all windows. The cheatline decals are designed to match the window rows of the Amodel kit. You do not need to remove the clear printed window' areas. Decalling just took an hour.
 

When decalling was completed, the remaining smaller parts were installed as per kit such as the landing gears.

On the vertical tail not the antennas #37 were set but 2 flat blade antennas from thin card. On the upper fuselage near the cockpit antenna #46 was not set. Antennas #40 were set as well as #30.

Regarding the horizontal stabilizers, I found that on this aircraft there were horizontal. They had been airbrushed earlier and were now installed.

The propeller blades are set as per kit and they are in a nice feathered pose as usually seen on parked Bandeirantes. The blades were painted light grey with black leading edges and light-grey/grey/ light-grey tip stripes. The spinner shiny aluminium.

The model was not weathered, this is a well maintained commuter. Only the recessed flap lines got a darker pencil stripe.

A final airbrushed acrylic varnish coat of Johnson Future / Pledge thinned with 5% Gunze Sangyo Mr.Color Leveling Thinner protects the decals and gives a nice gloss sheen. 

   

Two window wipers were made from black stretched sprue and fixed with white glue besides the front cockpit window frames. The anti-collision lights are tiny clear kit parts and set and clear painted red at port and green at starboard wing tips as per kit.
 
  
At aileron ends, stabilizer and tail rudder top 5 pairs (2 each) of static dischargers were set made from black EZ line (or use thin black stretched sprue). That completed this nice looking model of a former Dutch airline.   
 

  
 
 
  
 

   

  

    

 


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