"Starship One" Boeing 720

[Can-Con]

I've been building a small stash of airliners but this is the first one I've built ,, and it took years for me to finish.

Rodan kit. Pretty simple really. good for a beginner like myself. The decals were a bit of a job though. The window holes in the red line decal didn't line up so I had to cut it in sections to fit right, plus the red decals were fragile and tended to want to break apart. Luckily good old Testors flat red was a good match for touchups. Also, all the little white stars are separate decals. Took hours to apply them.

[cobraman]

Great looking plane.

[shoopdog]

Well worth the wait!

[PappyD340]

FANTASTIC build, well done!

[slusher]

Looks great Steve!

[Jim B]

Nice looking 720.  Well done.

[Can-Con]

On 2/21/2021 at 7:56 PM, cobraman said:

Great looking plane.

 

On 2/21/2021 at 11:18 PM, shoopdog said:

Well worth the wait!

 

On 2/26/2021 at 9:07 PM, PappyD340 said:

FANTASTIC build, well done!

 

On 3/3/2021 at 3:05 AM, slusher said:

Looks great Steve!

 

3 hours ago, Jim B said:

Nice looking 720.  Well done.

Thanks guys. 

Now I have to decide what plane to start next. ?

[unclescott58]

I've got this kit waiting in the wings. I will be building mine to represent how the exact same plane looked in Bill Bixby's 1973 TV series, The Magician. Despite what the article below says, the real plane was not borrowed from the National Guard. It was Starship One as painted up at the time. The scenes of his Corvette being driven in the back of the plane, may have used a National Guard cargo (C-130?) plane for filming. But, the exterior shots were all of the the Starship One in its present paint scheme of the time. 

 

Edited March 14, 2021 by unclescott58

[unclescott58]

Here are some more photos of Starship One in its various paint schemes, and various music acts names on it.