thanks for the tips everyone. Already found those sites and they provide lot of great information. Time to play and start building.
Great info! I live in Billings, Montana and currently see these railcars travel through each week!I am hoping to model them in HO scale. I have purchased 1/100 scale models which seem to fit well on the 89' rail cars I have. At around $100 (or less) each, they are still much cheaper than some of the other options I have seen around. Now, I just need to find the door and window decals. Haven't found much of anything, much less in the yellow found on the real planes. I can't imagine trying to tape off or otherwise outline all those tiny windows myself, but don't know how to make any window decals "pop" against the metalic green fuselages!
http://www.flightminiatures.com/scale_reference.aspx
has a 737-300 1:180, 735-400 1:185
either for $18 or so. just search for 737 and you will see both
Last summer, I was in New York City and decided to spend a few hours at Gulliver's Gate, an HO-scale model depicting scenes from most of the continents. It wasn't finished yet, but I really enjoyed the modeling.
This shows part of the airport, modelled loosely on Laguardia in New York.
They were working on the animation features, which include takeoffs and landings plus taxiing to and from the terminals.
It wasn't crowded, and they have made an effort to let visitors see into the process of design and construction by putting workshops right up front, where I got to talk with a number of the artists and craftsmen (and women) who were working that day. They mentioned that they had no luck finding quality airliner models in 1:87, and as I watched they were 3D printing one of them, in sections.
They use Faller cars (and others) to provided vehicle traffic, and there are a few ship routes using real-water canals and waterways. Pretty much every section has an HO-scale railroad running through it. They all run on DCC. Each is location-appropriate, but I was really bothered that I kept seeing Canadian National and Rio Grande boxcars in Italy, China and Russia. I made it my personal quest to find out why, and finally got a chance to speak with the "train guy" who told me they were straight out-of-the-box Walthers track cleaning cars. They had not gotten around to giving them better paint jobs yet, but still needed to keep the track clean.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I doesn’t take much to model LGA these days a static model will do :)
Joe Staten Island West
I searched for "boeing 737 scales"
Chose "Flight Miniatures Model Airplane Scale Reference Chart"
and found a couple of scales you might be able to use
this seems to ge a list of all available scales and livery
737-200 1:180 6.75" long737-300 1:180 7.25" long737-400 1:185 7.35" Long
hope this helps
for much more i know a site that will build to any scale.