Hi all great news zvezda are vring out b757-200 next year yes its true at last a good plastic model kit in the market

It took a while, but they finally saw the light! I sent their designer all of my 757 drawings and reference material several years ago. It ought to be a real cracker!

Awesome news. I will get many. So glad we some the real thing still flying, too!

Double good news with the release of this kit and Jon at 8aDecs announcing an upcoming range of 757 decals. He was asking for people's wish lists on Facebook recently.

I hope the engines and winglets come optional.... great news

Fantastic news! Yet another "license to print money" kit.

I hope someone releases some decals for 1990s USAir (@Jennings!!! ). Simple but pretty livery, especially on the 757.

Ben

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Frank V :
I am sure that if the kit only comes with one engine / wing tip option, we are fortunate to have a robust after market industry who can/will supply various engine options.

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My guess is they'll include regular and winglet wing tips. And it's not impossible they'll tool both engine types. The bigger issue is which window/door/hatch arrangement they decide to mold, since unless you like decal cabin windows, that will dictate which carriers you can build accurately.

J

Two or three engine types? I thought the 757 just had two types. Pratt and Whitney or Rolls Royce. I would also think that each engine type was "common" enough that a kit maker would pretty much need to do both. Fingers crossed. We have waited so long for a good injection molded 757 kit.

Ken

@Jennings: It is pretty frustrating to read about your decision to halt your decal production, since they were always so very great in quality ...from the early days of Liveries Unlimited that I still successfuly use nowadays to the fantastic fündecals distributed gems of your IL62, IL76 and 737NG. It is very understandable though reading about your issues and cash return problems. I am sorry to hear that.

Does your decision also effect your series of 747SP decals that you announced?

I would be very glad to remain a happy customer on these ones as I was for all the others,

Cheers

Christian

PS @Ken Miller: Yes, there were two versions of the RR engines on the 757, an early and late version which looked completely different. If you look at BA's G-BIKA series jets you will see immediatley what is meant.

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lichtjahre :Does your decision also effect your series of 747SP decals that you announced?

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Afraid so. Given the print minimums required to get quality silkscreen printing done, it's just not worth the investment. There aren't enough dedicated model *builders* left in the world to make it work for us. People want their models build and finished for them by someone else.

Back to the B757 . The two RR engines on the B757 were the RB211-535C and -535E4 . The -535C was similar to the P&W with a visible core nozzle. The E4 had the extended fan nozzle , hiding the core nozzle. Early RR B757s delivered to Eastern , BAW and Monarch had the 535C . Eastern and Monarch retrofitted the E4 . BA retained the 535C on its G-BIK? And G- BMR?. As the benefits of the E4 were marginal on the very short European sectors . The last batch of BA 757s had the E4 . I remember the early days of BA B757 operations when the engine had an issue in rain . These required 100% power take offs , no de rate regardless of weight . Blasting off to Paris from Heathrow was spectacular!. I can’t wait for the Zvezda B757 .

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lichtjahre :
would it help you to start a separete thread listing the potential 747SP decals you planned to do
and we as a modeler community would sign which ones to order
and as soon as we exceed the breakeven threshold we would pre-pay you to lower your risk?

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That’s not really the problem. The problem is, based on sales of other stuff and how long it takes to sell them (without it turning into a full time job), there simply aren’t that many people around the world who are going to want to pony up.

To be honest, I’m getting to the point in life (I turn 59 next year) that I want to start backing out of decal artwork entirely and spend some time actually building models for a change. I’ve got a HUGE stash of kits, and I’ll need to live to be about 157 years old to build them all, if I were to start tomorrow.

Jennings,
I understand all this very well,
and indeed we all have more airliners and decals to work upon
than years to exist upon this beautiful planet.
Enjoy modelling!

So instead of pitying that I wont see new decals from you
I will value all the ones I do have
and I look tremendously forward to build many IL62 and IL76...)

And now back to the Zvezda 757... (sorry for getting off-topic here)
Owning 5 beautiful AA 757 with both PW and RR engines I am not sure if I need the Zvezda kit on top,
but certainly it will be a gem as well, especially if it features a flaps out config just as their IL62 does.
In the latter case I will have an eye on it for sure )

Cheers,
Christian

Thanks J
Do retire! Please! Go build models, you need that!
Years and years of hearing you complain!
Got ALL of us old!
New 757 will be great! There are other decal makers out there
Like 8a, 26, V1, Ahmed’s decals and vintage flyer decals that do much better job
So, go, go in peace, you had your moments, they are GONE!
By!

Walter
Houston, TX

Jennings, best wishes for whatever you choose to do going forward. Thanks for the many years of beautiful decals you have produced, I'm sure I have enough of them to last my lifetime and then some.

Gene

Wonder how many Rubles it would take to convince them to do a 727-200 kit.......

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Wonder how many Rubles it would take to convince them to do a 727-200 kit.......

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There is a new 727 coming from another manufacturer.

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Thanks Ben. I think I'm done with airliner decals. Just too expensive for the return these days, and there are so many fingers in the pie it's just not worth it to me.

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Understood. Thanks for making some of the best airliner decals out there!

Ben

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Wonder how many Rubles it would take to convince them to do a 727-200 kit.......

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There is a new 727 coming from another manufacturer.

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that's what i read as well on the pas-decal forum. It was said that early next year a Boeing 727-100 followed by the -200 will be released from an unnamed manufacturer. It it probably not zvezda or eastern express...wonder if it might be Roden or Amodel...pretty sure some Russian/ukrainian manufacturer.