1:500 fleet.

[JetForge]

This shows that Herpa is able to give detail! It's a shame that the nose section is so strange, otherwise it would be an excellent model!
For me, €40 is far too expensive for 1/500 models. Herpa would either have to add details or lower prices.
Besides, a Herpa live took place tonight on Instagram, I didn't have time to see it. Did anyone saw it and if so, what did they say?

 

[Charter]

This shows that Herpa is able to give detail! It's a shame that the nose section is so strange, otherwise it would be an excellent model!
For me, €40 is far too expensive for 1/500 models. Herpa would either have to add details or lower prices.
Besides, a Herpa live took place tonight on Instagram, I didn't have time to see it. Did anyone saw it and if so, what did he say?

Maybe someone knowing German language. I have understood that Herpa will produce all the six Lufthansa "100 Years" airplanes and the A321 revised retro livery, than that the B777-9 will not have movable wingtips because of too many realization problems in the small scale. Maybe Herpa will realize a second version in the future.

 

[JetForge]

Thanks for your answer Charter. I speak German but I couldn’t participate to the live. Lufthansa’s A321 in retro livery in scale 1/500 is a good news but an A321-200 or -100 in standard livery and in 1/500 would be better

 

[s4lmon8]

Maybe someone knowing German language. I have understood that Herpa will produce all the six Lufthansa "100 Years" airplanes and the A321 revised retro livery, than that the B777-9 will not have movable wingtips because of too many realization problems in the small scale. Maybe Herpa will realize a second version in the future.

So are they producing 777-9 with the existing mould but in airline liveries?

 

[Charter]

So are they producing 777-9 with the existing mould but in airline liveries?

Yes and in the second part of the year (or of the B777-9 project) with movable wingtips.
Then two more Il-62s and trying to fill the gap with Aeroflot classic livery Il-62.
No B737 Classic new mould planned (B737-300/400/500) but for Lufthansa 100 Years there could be a Lufthansa B737-300 and/or -400/500.
Referring to competitors (Aether...) Herpa welcomes fair competition but even the competitor have produced models with flaws and errors (mould mistakes, wrong liveries, wrong details and so on).
More details will be added on Herpa models fuselage and they are trying to make this without further increasing prices.

 

[s4lmon8]

Yes and in the second part of the year (or of the B777-9 project) with movable wingtips.
Then two more Il-62s and trying to full the gap with Aeroflot classic livery Il-62.
No B737 Classic new mould planned (B737-300/400/500) but for Lufthansa 100 Years there could be a Lufthansa B737-300 and/or -400/500.
Referring to competitors (Aether...) Herpa welcomes fair competition but even the competitor have produced models with flaws and errors (mould mistakes, wrong liveries, wrong details and so on).
More details will be added on Herpa models fuselage and they are trying to make this without further increasing prices.

I’m predicting moving wingtips are going to be plastic, otherwise there might be giant gaps with all diecast. I would also argue 40Eur is too much for 1/500, especially Herpa which already has industrial manufacturing scale…

 

[Charter]

Yes and in the second part of the year (or of the B777-9 project) with movable wingtips.
Then two more Il-62s and trying to full the gap with Aeroflot classic livery Il-62.
No B737 Classic new mould planned (B737-300/400/500) but for Lufthansa 100 Years there could be a Lufthansa B737-300 and/or -400/500.
Referring to competitors (Aether...) Herpa welcomes fair competition but even the competitor have produced models with flaws and errors (mould mistakes, wrong liveries, wrong details and so on).
More details will be added on Herpa models fuselage and they are trying to make this without further increasing prices.

No more Finnair license with Herpa
A couple of CRJs in the future
No B747SP new mould
Very "short final" with a low cost carrier for license agreement but no name (Southwest? Ryanair? easyJet? Air Arabia? Volotea? Wizz Air again?)

 

[Charter]

Maybe someone knowing German language. I have understood that Herpa will produce all the six Lufthansa "100 Years" airplanes and the A321 revised retro livery, than that the B777-9 will not have movable wingtips because of too many realization problems in the small scale. Maybe Herpa will realize a second version in the future.

This should be new Lufthansa A321 retro livery, "Super Star".

 

[JetForge]

Very "short final" with a low cost carrier for license agreement but no name (Southwest? Ryanair? easyJet? Air Arabia? Volotea? Wizz Air again?)

I heard that Herpa planned to produce a Smartwings model for 2026. Maybe it's this model they're talking about.
As for Ryanair, Volotea, EasyJet, Jet2Holidays, I absolutely do not believe that Herpa can produce them one day. I look forward to Aether's future releases of narrow bodies, so that perhaps we can finally see models and carriers that Herpa has never produced.

 

[Charter]

I heard that Herpa planned to produce a Smartwings model for 2026. Maybe it's this model they're talking about.
As for Ryanair, Volotea, EasyJet, Jet2Holidays, I absolutely do not believe that Herpa can produce them one day. I look forward to Aether's future releases of narrow bodies, so that perhaps we can finally see models and carriers that Herpa has never produced.

I don't know how much Herpa is accurate with statements: technically speacking Smartwings is "the biggest Czech Republic airline operating charter and leisure flights with some scheduled operations". Low cost carriers are airlines purely operating low cost flights and these airlines are Southwest, easyJet, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Volotea ecc ecc.
Then since some years all the airlines can be considered "low cost" because if flying British Airways, Air France, ITA Airways, Lufthansa the ticket price includes just "entering inside an airplane that will perform a route from point A to point B and at absurd timetable" and you have to pay additional fee for "seat, baggage, insurance, water, acceptable timetable" well, now each airline is a LCC!

 

[Charter]

ITA Airways A220-300 EI-HHM by Herpa.
Lucky us for this model, the only ITA Airways narrowbody in full ITA beautiful livery. Then ITA changed partners, becoming Lufthansa subsidiary. Herpa lost license, hoping for a new agreement with ITA and, above all, Lufthansa.
Beautiful model but glittered: this blue livery has not glitters and i am waiting for Aether Model ITA Airways A330-200 to check if even that model has a glittered paint.
Glitters on blue and grey paints are a common defect in 1:500 like 1:400 scale: i am not completely sure but i think there aren't ITA Airways or Aeroflot models in both scales without glitters.