Lockheed L-1049 Super Connie Mould Review

[RStretton]

It's Dragon vs Aeroclassics again with the Super Connie. This is made more interesting though by the different versions short nose/long nose and tip tanks/no tanks.

The L-1049 really needs a revisit. There are effectively no early Connies made at all which account for a huge number of the production run. I think Aeroclassics would benefit hugely from making a short nose mould even if it has to use the old square seam like the recent Starliner.

Anyway here's the review with lots of photos of all the moulds (except the decaled ones) and comparing them to each other shots too:

http://yesterdaysairlines.weebly.com/lockheed-super-connie.html

Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Moulds in 1:400 Scale by rstretton, on Flickr

[Adrian]

I have just three Dragon Super Connies, QANTAS and the two USAF EC-121 variants they made. The mould is not great and cockpit printing is inaccurate. The Aeroclassics Super Connie mould was great in comparison. I say 'was', as I believe the mould is now defunct, having donated its fuselage to the new Aeroclassics L-1649A Starliner. I believe AK said there were no more Super Connie liveries worth doing and that there would be no more. This is a great pity as AC took a liberty with its Super Connie mould which was a 'long nose/radome' variant that neither Air France, Lufthansa nor Aerlinte Eireann operated, yet AC made them! If they made a new ''short nose' fuselage, they could do these all again correctly and more!