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But that's 1/200. ;)

If they get that wonky cockpit printing under control and the fuselage printing lower I might be interested in HF.

Simple geometry. The aft fuselage on the A300 (310/330/340) tapers upwards - it forms an oblique cone - so the optimal cabin cross section follows and also goes upwards.

I take it these are still early samples? Long way to go I'm afraid. I see Yu went for doing a classic fuselage but 600 wings for everything. I was hoping to get at least either a correct "classic" or 600.

Ouch. That's got to be the worst print alignment ever.

I take it the two tone grey (belly vs. engine) is just the picture. I never realized HX overtook the way too long #2/3 pylons from JC. The nacelle to wing clearance should be the same for all four engines.

Thanks, I've never taken a closer look at Phoenix' A340-600 as I always thought something around the wings looked too weird to buy, but a recent post about PHX' wing sweep made me curious and yes, that's it.

Would you have a top (or bottom) comparison of the entire wing for all three. The Phoenix should be interesting.

Quite annoying. But I only get this problem with Flickr when linking on MAF.

Not sure if you can see my pics - I can't - but here's another arrival. This one's destined for the workbench. HX's Clipper Storm King. And just for the fun to highlight the bling bling nacelles, I removed the light diffusors for this one:

With a bit of delay... My PSA TriStar arrived as expected, given NG didn't use a proper cradle for this one: The lower reverser rail had no room in the cradle and broke... Can be fixed but annoying nontheless.

Same here. Far too much going on in this scheme. All of the Tropical releases I've seen have the standard light grey painted wings, engines, pylons and stabs. A pattern that is standard in the world of scale modeling but was more exception than rule on real 747s. A Singapore 744 needs light grey...

Especially when they not only copy subjects but also artwork. I mean, of all the Tropicals released so far NOT ONE correctly rendered Singapore's painting pattern for a 744. It appears they all copied what the first one (DW?) did back then. Only the announced JC version seems to be based on...

Forgot about this. Had another look and think this could indeed be a dedicated 743. Curious about HON then. Maybe because you get it done in one setup with the 744 so that it saves you some dollars.🤔