Boeing 247 National Parks Airways - Williams Bros 1/72 modified kit

Here is the model completed in its National Parks Airways livery, not at all a casual choice for a time when certain trumping clown seems to think that patrimony and nature are just another good place for a mall or shopping center or drilling, or consider the patrimony of humanity as real estate for sale.
So persons with no intellectual or ethical credentials like the facts-challenged, cheeseburger-fed president and his Secretary of Corporation Facilitation are systematically trying to undermine the future of the National Parks. Besides the future of the nation and the world, that is.

The model was modified as you can see in the building post here:

http://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2017/09/modified-boeing-247d-national-parks.html

by the addition of a restroom, cargo area and door, more bulkheads, nose cargo area and hatch, pilots hatch, some cabin detail, and other details, plus of course commissioning a special set of marks from Arctic Decals.

I am really fond of the 30´s appearance that the forward-raked windshield provides, so I went for that variant.

Many hours were spent searching the Net, reading references, sorting out details and looking at photographs. Modelers should be a bit more skeptic and proactive if they want a more accurate model.

The venerable Williams Bros issue is still a workable platform -if understandably showing its age-, and again I thank good friend, fellow modeler and ebil genius Sönke Schulz from Volkania* for gifting the kit.

 *His address:

Ze Lair

Volcanic Region

German Transsylvania
Here he is with Igor, his all-in-one device: disciple, slave and pet:

And also my gratitude to Master Unmodeller, Dog Whisperer and Greek Philosopher Christos Psarras -here is a photo of him:

who provided a second kit to make up for the missing parts on the Ebil Sönke's one.

And now, the model:

 Since Sönke gifted the kit, he insisted in having an official "model completed" ceremony with the attendance of the Volkania Sturm und Drang band: