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And a great opportunity to showcase how off-white Delta's white really is(y) For color referencing/scale modeling snow in pictures is perfect, but it's not really the type of weather I like.🥶 I recently used the cold days to sort through some of my older holiday pictures. Here's one from 2011...

LOT Il-62 by Phoenix. All in all a nice product and finally some new classic subject in all this 350NeoMAX787 mess. But there's two things I need to criticise: 1. Those engines's size and shape look like D30s with modified reversers but are sadly far away from the looks of an NK-8. 2. The...

Just got to it. So here's a quick overlay of a 737NG v.tail profile and HX's. Note the trailing edge. Comes exactly as expected. For the fun of it, just to show you why I always bring up JC. Here's the same drawing overlaying a JC.

If that's a production CAD for a CAM workflow then what you see should be what you get.

Well, had they looked more at a real 737NG instead of what was done for/by JC previousely, they could have done a lot more things right.😉

Yes, only in the old days when moulds were basically made on "hand carved" masters you might have seen such difference. Today's designs are CAD based. Once you have your defined shape (737 nose or tail) you just "copy" it into the next CAD.

Today you usually work on a CAM base giving you the precission to cast and assemble mixed from several dies. For an aircraft family you'd usually have one (or several) die for the shared parts (wings, tailplanes + plastic inj. parts) and one for each fuselage variant. So a 739 would share all...

Is it just me or is there some new brand every day with just the same stuff over and over again?

Absolutely😅 I may do something later. But if you place this HX and an NG 737NG tail to tail it should be obvious too.

No word on the erroneousely shaped v.tail on this mould? A clear reminder on which brand this factory had previously worked for.

Curious about the grey here. Does this model really have the fuselage in a darker grey than the wings?

And the colors. Pics suggest they use the same blue for both Negus and Landor.

Yes.