Skybusters (airline) wishlist

[AntonioMartin]

Hello:
Since Matchbox has been stagnant with their Skybusters as of lately, here I want to make my own wishlist of airline liveries I want to see as part of future Skybusters collection releases, hoping someone over at Mattel might get this list!!;
Aerolineas Argentinas
Aerosur
Amerijet
ANA
Atlas Air Cargo
Bahamasair
Biman Bangladesh
China Eastern
Conviasa
DELTA-majorly needed on the Skybusters line
Emirates
Four Star Cargo
Israir
JetBlue
Kulula.com
Lufthansa Cargo
Merpati
North American Airlines
Oman Air
Philippne Airlines
Qatar Airways
Ryanair
SOUTHWEST-Majorly needed on the skybusters line
Tam
Tame
Tampa Cargo
Virgin America
World Airways
Yemenia

Hope you can add some airline names you too want to see to my list!!

[grwebster]

you know about 30 years ago a french toy airplane collector {Jacques Berengier} had the same wish for the Aeromini 747s. He wanted all the airlines. Eventually he made his own decal transfers - much easier today to do- and had an entire fleet of them after a while. He did the same thing with the Dinky Toys Connie- he must have had 40 of them in every livery.
You can pick up those skybusters cheaply today, just strip and repaint, and apply your own transfers.
That should keep you busy for a decade or so.

[AntonioMartin]

you know about 30 years ago a french toy airplane collector {Jacques Berengier} had the same wish for the Aeromini 747s. He wanted all the airlines. Eventually he made his own decal transfers - much easier today to do- and had an entire fleet of them after a while. He did the same thing with the Dinky Toys Connie- he must have had 40 of them in every livery.
You can pick up those skybusters cheaply today, just strip and repaint, and apply your own transfers.
That should keep you busy for a decade or so.

Did this man sell them on Ebay? I think I might have known him, because I knew someone from Europe who did more or less what you describe, and who told me he was retiring because of Cancer.

Say Webster, do I need any special computer equipment (a printer, for example) to do the decal transfers?

THANKS MAN!

Oh and I would want every airline too, hopefully I can then add them to my train town with the airport(I have a Herpa airport, but, its just for me and my nieces and nephew to play, not gonna be a museum or likewise so it's all right) and like have 140 airlines fly to my train town lol!!

[grwebster]

Yes, Antonio, I think he did have cancer at the end and sold them on ebay. Some time back. I have one of his Connies in TWA that I got from him directly. He did not at that time sign his work and the craftmanship was a bit rough. He used a heavy gloss overspray, too, but it was fun to see them all.
You would need a digital color printer -they are cheap like less than 100$, the special decal paper to print on, and a program like photoshop to make the artwork
Most kit bashers here on the form, michael b for example, know how to do this.

[AntonioMartin]

Yes, Antonio, I think he did have cancer at the end and sold them on ebay. Some time back. I have one of his Connies in TWA that I got from him directly. He did not at that time sign his work and the craftmanship was a bit rough. He used a heavy gloss overspray, too, but it was fun to see them all.
You would need a digital color printer -they are cheap like less than 100$, the special decal paper to print on, and a program like photoshop to make the artwork
Most kit bashers here on the form, michael b for example, know how to do this.

Oh was it1 I remember when he was selling his Ghana Airways Skybusters I almost fell to the floor when I saw that. I thought it must've been an European edition lol!

Thanks for the info. In fact I am to start kitbashing myself, for buildings and stuff. We'll see where that takes me!