NG Models February 2025 Release Hints

[Phantom]

I'm guessing the A350F is an intermediate mould?
Because, I also notice a difference in the nose shapes on the A350Fs, from the A359s

Perhaps they'd made blanks before they upgraded the moulds for the regular passenger variants?

Depends on how they designed the moulds.
"Old school" and for smaller subjects I often saw all-in-one moulds (toolings) to yield all parts for one model in one shot.
If you're going advanced and/or need to cast larger you'd design all shared parts to be within one tooling and all parts differing into seperate toolings.
On a 350 I'd design wings and tailplanes into one tooling and then seperate toolings for 359, 35K and 35F fuselages with common connectors to fit wings/tailplanes. Of course you'd have no 35K wing then and that's what I saw with NG.
So IF they did a 35K wing now, this should consequently also fit to their 35F. So either this is not how they designed it or they simply screwed up ignoring the fact that a 350F is structurally a slightly shorter 35K and just assembled the wrong wing. Or we're seeing something completely differen on these 35Ks

 

[777-300ER]

Am I the only one to think that NG could just have wait for the actual A350Fs to be made in real life so they can replicate real registrations and final painting rather than making fantasy aircrafts? Their A350 mould worth more than that

 

[planes_on_a_shelf]

Am I the only one to think that NG could just have wait for the actual A350Fs to be made in real life so they can replicate real registrations and final painting rather than making fantasy aircrafts? Their A350 mould worth more than that

To be fair, JC announced a fantasy A350F first, based on the Airbus contest winning artwork, quite a while ago.
There's quite a demand for these A350Fs
I won't be interested in these myself, but there's a number of collectors who are.

 

[LeoMuse747]

Am I the only one to think that NG could just have wait for the actual A350Fs to be made in real life so they can replicate real registrations and final painting rather than making fantasy aircrafts? Their A350 mould worth more than that

I fully agree. I personally dislike seeing these fantasy models, even when there are firm orders for the real plane.
I remember when Herpa decided to release an Emirates SkyCargo B747-8F in scale 1:500, back when Emirates had an order for these freighter Jumbos.

Even back then, I thought it was a lame choice of release. Why not wait for the rollout/delivery of the real plane?
Well, Emirates ended up cancelling their order, and the model was subsequently cancelled before being put into production lol

 

[777-300ER]

There's quite a demand for these A350Fs
I won't be interested in these myself, but there's a number of collectors who are.

I don’t think 100% of these collectors expected 1/400 A350F to be released before Airbus deliveries, as fantasy release (a model without an official registration from the real world is a fantasy model). NG, JC should have waited for future diliveries. Part of collectors expecting the 1/400 A350Fs may definitely be disappointed and now avoid spending money on what they didn’t expect.

There is more demand on real aircraft models. We still not have the very requested Korean Air 747-8, for exemple, and they decide to waste these moulds by spamming fantasy releases every months.

I haven’t seen any of these fantasy A350F on their official wishlist page

 

[Unboxing Aviation]

Wow looks like NG finally used a winglet that looks correct on the 35k

 

[Phantom]

I never really cared much about A350s in 1/400 scale but just now took a closer look at their early releases.
Have they simply dusted their v1 wing mould for the 35K? That's at least what I strongly believe after taking a closer look.

 

[pons399]

Wow looks like NG finally used a winglet that looks correct on the 35k

Looks like a trimmed version of their new 359 winglet, seeing how angular it is at the top. Better than what they had a few months ago, but their initial curvy 35K winglet was still more accurate.