Does Herpa A220 use JC mould?

[MacSergey]

So the question is in the title. I have both A220 by Herpa and JC, they look identical to me. the only difference is that herpa one has not round stand hole.

 

[Critical Aviator]

Yes it does look like Herpa have used the JC mould. I just checked the MADb and it looks like Herpa have been using the JC A220 mould for a handful of A220 releases already. Herpa have used JC moulds in the past but I’m surprised that they used the JC A220 mould as they have their own mould for the type. Unless I’m mistaken and both A220 moulds happen to be very similar but from what I can tell, there are noticeable differences between the two so I would still say that this Air Baltic uses the JC mould. Maybe the Herpa mould is unavailable ?

 

[MacSergey]

it seems that Herpa used JC mould for all their A220. there was first fersion of mould with not detailed gears and both JC and Herpa used it. I think the gears were updated in 2022 and the newest Herpa releases in 2025 uses this updated mould

 

[Gazontipede]

I'm still amazed that this is the only game in town for the C-Series/A220 in this scale.

 

[keji833]

I'm still amazed that this is the only game in town for the C-Series/A220 in this scale.

same....

 

[1400_Aircraft_Models]

Funnily enough I'm pretty sure that - much like the AN225 - is officially a Herpa mould and not a JC one. I attribute this due to the model having plastic gears.

Just because JCW also produces models on it (And might even have produced the first release on this mould) doesn't mean they own it - but JC just stores all the moulds that ever existed pretty much lol. I'm sure Yesterdaysairlines might / will have an article on this someday hahaha.

But yeah JC Basically produces all Herpa (and GJ) releases regardless of scale afaik, and this enables them to usually also use those moulds for their own releases.