I miss seeing this beautiful visitor here in my city.
Charter 1:400 collection.
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I miss seeing this beautiful visitor here in my city.
That's really great, Ale! ACB have a great service!!
Gemini LTU MD-11 D-AERZ
I discovered to love the MD-11, passenger version, and i think it is a wonderful airplane, powerful and elegant in its "weird shape".
L-1011 and DC-10 were beautiful widebodies trijets, but the MD-11 is/was a real beast and watching at the dramatic 45° right turn for the short final at Kai Tak airport is a pleasure for the eyes. Too pity McDonnel Douglas developed the MD-11 too late, an iconic airplane failing because of the arrival of more powerful engines and the rising of widebodies twinjets.
Even in 1:400 scale there aren't so many MD-11, while in 1:500 StarJets produced some of the most beautiful masterpiece in both mould and liveries.
Now i am waiting for the Alitalia MD-11 by JCWings: don't know so much about the mould, knowing the producing time will be biblical, but knowing also that the Alitalia MD-11 was underestimated in both scales.
But McDonnell Douglas remains a visionary company, because in 1992 was trying to develop the MD-12, a double-deck giant very similar to what Airbus called A380 many years later. The MD-12 was thinked like a development of the B747-400 before and of the MD-11 (MD-XX) later, but there weren't interested operators (and money). Maybe an MD-12/MD380 flying around 1997 (ten years before the first A380 delivery to Singapore Airlines) would have had much more success of the A380.
Anyway, here we are: LTU MD-11, for years the workhorse of LTU long haul leisure routes.
I discovered to love the MD-11, passenger version, and i think it is a wonderful airplane, powerful and elegant in its "weird shape".
L-1011 and DC-10 were beautiful widebodies trijets, but the MD-11 is/was a real beast and watching at the dramatic 45° right turn for the short final at Kai Tak airport is a pleasure for the eyes. Too pity McDonnel Douglas developed the MD-11 too late, an iconic airplane failing because of the arrival of more powerful engines and the rising of widebodies twinjets.
Even in 1:400 scale there aren't so many MD-11, while in 1:500 StarJets produced some of the most beautiful masterpiece in both mould and liveries.
Now i am waiting for the Alitalia MD-11 by JCWings: don't know so much about the mould, knowing the producing time will be biblical, but knowing also that the Alitalia MD-11 was underestimated in both scales.
But McDonnell Douglas remains a visionary company, because in 1992 was trying to develop the MD-12, a double-deck giant very similar to what Airbus called A380 many years later. The MD-12 was thinked like a development of the B747-400 before and of the MD-11 (MD-XX) later, but there weren't interested operators (and money). Maybe an MD-12/MD380 flying around 1997 (ten years before the first A380 delivery to Singapore Airlines) would have had much more success of the A380.
Anyway, here we are: LTU MD-11, for years the workhorse of LTU long haul leisure routes.
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A beauty! Gemini produced some cool MD-11s back in the early 2000s.
Varig and VASP included
Which Varig? Latest livery before the phase out?A beauty! Gemini produced some cool MD-11s back in the early 2000s.
Varig and VASP included
No... the classic Ícaro livery and the Landor 1996 version.
They also released the 1998 World Cup special livery.
I have all three!
Premiair A330-300 by Herpa 1:400.
I loved this airline from Sweden, i love all airlines from Scandinavia, and i was enough lucky to see this beauty at Rome CIA airport, when CIA was handling many charter/leisure airlines.
Here we are considering the first Herpa attempts to create 1:400 models, in fact the mould and the details are mainly primitive and crude and the manufacturer was using a lot of plastic.
I loved this airline from Sweden, i love all airlines from Scandinavia, and i was enough lucky to see this beauty at Rome CIA airport, when CIA was handling many charter/leisure airlines.
Here we are considering the first Herpa attempts to create 1:400 models, in fact the mould and the details are mainly primitive and crude and the manufacturer was using a lot of plastic.
In my opinion four places make a collector 's day: Aviation Center Berlin (Berlin), Aviationmegastore (Amsterdam), Cross Wings Japan (Tokyo), Hong Kong (the entire city, full of small shops made for airplane models and of airplane models).Amazing store! Hope to visit someday
OllieBHaas25
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I would do a lot of things to have a store like that near me!
Wonderful model. This livery is amazing!!!
Critical Aviator
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The ITA airways livery is stunning and the first time I saw it was on the A350.
