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Forums | 1.0 Airliner Modeling | Airliner Modeling Chat | United 787-822 New Colors!!

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#43897 08-06-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Coming shortly from F-Dcal!! You saw it here first

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#43909 08-07-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Is there really no interest in this? This is a real livery (see www.airliners.net), not a what-if.

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Mockone2003 Members Add As Buddy Posts: 63 Location: SFO/SJC/OAK Occupation: Age:	#43912 08-07-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Being an old UA fan, yes. Knowing its CO doing business as UA, I'm neutral. I have "issues" with SMI/J Mark

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Ken Miller Members Add As Buddy Posts: 422 Location: Campbell, CA Occupation: Govt. Employee Age: 120	#43913 08-08-2012 GMT-5 hours
	I'm kind of excited about the decal Have yet to build my first kit in the Dreamliner markings though Ken

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NX28388 Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 113 Location: Occupation: Professional speller Age:	#43916 08-08-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Hats off to y'all for getting this ready so quickly. I'd be more intrigued, except that: 1. I only plan to build one 787, and have the livery already picked out 2. As a former CO loyalist, this is a case of "livery is pretty but 1:1 airline breaks my heart." That said, if the line were expanded to give us 737 and 757 CO/UA liveries with the proper non-metallic stripe and globe, I'd be very interested in that. I've flown a ton of miles on those and have so many memories. Fly Alaska's first airline. Wien Air Alaska.

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aptivaboy Members Add As Buddy Posts: 77 Location: Sunny Orange County, Southern California Occupation: High school teacher. Please pray for me... Age:	#43917 08-08-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Is there really no* interest in this?* Yes and no. I'm a Continental guy, so anything with the globe on the tail gets my interest. I hate the merger but its a done deal, so I have to deal with the United titles on the fuselage, but the font is all wrong. I'm hoping that United will adopt the old Continental font which looked so much classier and elegant. When and if they do, I'll definitely be in for a bunch of new UA decals.

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aptivaboy Members Add As Buddy Posts: 77 Location: Sunny Orange County, Southern California Occupation: High school teacher. Please pray for me... Age:	#43918 08-08-2012 GMT-5 hours
	PS. Any chance of adding a "What if" "United" or "Continental" in the old font? I'd be all over this if you did!

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#43921 08-08-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Quote Yes and no. I'm a Continental guy, so anything with the globe on the tail gets my interest. I hate the merger but its a done deal, so I have to deal with the United titles on the fuselage, but the font is all wrong. I'm hoping that United will adopt the old Continental font which looked so much classier and elegant. When and if they do, I'll definitely be in for a bunch of new UA decals. Actually they originally showed the merger livery using the Continental lettering style, and even posted advertising art on their web site for a few days showing it (I grabbed all of it!). Within about a week however, they changed to the current hideously ugly sans-serif block style "UNITED" (much against all good taste). I suspect they wanted more of a departure from the "Contininted" look. We could definitely throw both lettering styles in there though... J PS: Here was my initial UA 787 profile...

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Mockone2003 Members Add As Buddy Posts: 63 Location: SFO/SJC/OAK Occupation: Age:	#43924 08-08-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Or maybe CO's mgt was throwing a bone to UA?

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aptivaboy Members Add As Buddy Posts: 77 Location: Sunny Orange County, Southern California Occupation: High school teacher. Please pray for me... Age:	#43926 08-09-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Nice. Please keep us posted here on this. Seriously, in proper Continental titles, I'll go for one. Or maybe CO's mgt was throwing a bone to UA? Well, their management was certainly superior to UA's!!! Their only mistake? Agreeing to the merger in the first place!

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#43968 08-11-2012 GMT-5 hours
	I can confirm that the F-Dcal sheet will have the current (real world) UNITED titles, the originally shown "United" titles in the Continental font, and "Continental" titles. You can do your model as the real thing delivered by Boeing, or as one of the two "fantasy" variations. J

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aptivaboy Members Add As Buddy Posts: 77 Location: Sunny Orange County, Southern California Occupation: High school teacher. Please pray for me... Age:	#43984 08-12-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Sweet, thanks! Please keep up updated as to when this decal comes out! Robert

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#43985 08-12-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Keep an eye on the F-Dcal web site, as Philippe doesn't usually tell me when it's ready to go. www.f-dcal.fr J

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gjake Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 131 Location: Mobile, AL Occupation: HydroMet Techincian Age:	#44110 08-22-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Jennings, Have you ever done a "what if" drawing of the 787 in the Braniff pinstripe scheme? Gene MOB

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Exile Upper Deck Member Add As Buddy Posts: 791 Location: Cannock Occupation: RAF retired. Age:	#44113 08-22-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Have a look at the F-Dcal website to see previews of some great stuff coming up in September! Al

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#44114 08-22-2012 GMT-5 hours
	www.f-dcal.fr

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gjake Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 131 Location: Mobile, AL Occupation: HydroMet Techincian Age:	#44115 08-23-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Thanks Jennings, those schemes look fantastic on that aircraft. Gene

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Karel Members Add As Buddy Posts: 596 Location: Bahrain, UAE, UK, FR, DE... Occupation: Airpeugeot babysitter Age: 31	#44305 09-14-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Well, I am a bit of an old school United tulip boy and after seeing the continited 777 again at Bahrain airport yesterday it becomes harder and harder to tolerate this livery... Seems like on both sides of the merger they screwed it up with this makeshift livery hey... Quality wins!

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#44311 09-14-2012 GMT-5 hours
	The only United scheme worthy of mention since 1958

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Karel Members Add As Buddy Posts: 596 Location: Bahrain, UAE, UK, FR, DE... Occupation: Airpeugeot babysitter Age: 31	#44314 09-14-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Quote Jennings : The only United scheme worthy of mention since 1958 Absolutely! :-) Quality wins!

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Jetson Members Add As Buddy Posts: 26 Location: Occupation: Age:	#44328 09-15-2012 GMT-5 hours
	The United scheme: So true, so true... My first plane ride was in a United 737-200, when I was in the US Navy. It was this livery, or the one preceding it- The wider cheatline with the windows centered on the red line, and smaller fuselage titles. It was a long time ago, early 1977- Any help on which scheme it was, Jennings? George (Jetson)

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#44329 09-15-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Probably the early version of the red/orange/blue with the smaller titles and windows in the red cheatline. I don't think the modified version with the lower cheatline and bigger titles came along until around 1984 or so.

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Karel Members Add As Buddy Posts: 596 Location: Bahrain, UAE, UK, FR, DE... Occupation: Airpeugeot babysitter Age: 31	#44339 09-16-2012 GMT-5 hours
	Btw J, do you know what font they used for the United red-orange-blue scheme? I might go and print some decals myself for a future project... Picked up a Welsh Jetstream-31 in scale 1/144 the other day... I wouldn't mind doing that fantasy 787 for real to be honest and give it to my stephmother in the UA office in Brussels! lol Might cause an emotional stir... Quality wins!

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Jennings Contributors Add As Buddy Posts: 1929 Location: Southun' Vuhginya USA Occupation: Hospice Nurse Age: 111	#44345 09-16-2012 GMT-5 hours
	It's not a font. The lettering was unique to the word "UNITED".

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