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[planes_on_a_shelf]

Thank you! It honestly blew my expectations, the amount of printed detail on this model is insane. I can see why the collectorate goes crazy for the NG L-1011, the printing and the mould are a match made in heaven.View attachment 31596

This is why we need more Tristars from NG.
There's nearly not enough from them

Meanwhile those other brand 1011s no one wants are floating about because NG's been dragging their feet on releasing the ones most obvious, wanted, and lacking.

 

[1/400collector]

This is why we need more Tristars from NG.
There's nearly not enough from them

Meanwhile those other brand 1011s no one wants are floating about because NG's been dragging their feet on releasing the ones most obvious, wanted, and lacking.

Ng is pretty good at teasing us, the two best examples of this are the many Eastren L1011 hybrids yet no actual Eastern and the Corsair 747SP with LX- reg

 

[planes_on_a_shelf]

Ng is pretty good at teasing us, the two best examples of this are the many Eastren L1011 hybrids yet no actual Eastern and the Corsair 747SP with LX- reg

Yeah. Though the teasing unfortunately seems to be stretching too far now

 

[SWAFARetired]

Honestly go for it, the NG Pan Am L-1011's are beautiful from what I've seen. Love the Etihad 777 you got btw!

Thanks I now have the 777-300ER and the A350-1000 for Etihad, I love how they look.

 

[SWAFARetired]

I found quite a few NG 1:400 Lockheed TriStar's. Pan Am and lots of others on eBay.

 

[AustrianCollector]

I found quite a few NG 1:400 Lockheed TriStar's. Pan Am and lots of others on eBay.

I can't find the Gulf Air for the life of me!

 

[abdulmohiuddin]

Yeah. Though the teasing unfortunately seems to be stretching too far now

I feel it isn't teasing and more so that Eastern hit them midway through the production process with a cease and desist, leaving NG to try and figure out a way to get rid of those bare metal blanks. Eastern is still an active brand, although I'm not sure if they're like Braniff in regards to licensing.

 

[SWAFARetired]

I can't find the Gulf Air for the life of me!

Which aircraft for Gulf Air?

 

[SWAFARetired]

Here is what I was able to find on eBay for Gulf Air, this just first few, there are quite a few listed, I searched 1/400 scale diecast models Gulf Air

 

[abdulmohiuddin]

Which aircraft for Gulf Air?

The NG Gulf Air L-1011 from 2021. Seems to rarely pop up on eBay.

 

[SWAFARetired]

The NG Gulf Air L-1011 from 2021. Seems to rarely pop up on eBay.

I found a place that has it for $50

 

[planes_on_a_shelf]

I found a place that has it for $50 View attachment 31605

Not a bad price

 

[DTcustoms]

I didn't realize how rare the Gulf Air Tristar from NG has become. Glad I got mine back when NG announced it

 

[abdulmohiuddin]

I found a place that has it for $50 View attachment 31605

EzToys sold out their Gulf Air L-1011 a while back. Honestly I hope we can see NG release another Gulf Air L-1011 somewhere down the line. Gulf Air operated an L-1011-200 as well so I hope we could see that one day.

 

[planes_on_a_shelf]

I hope we can see NG release another Gulf Air L-1011 somewhere down the line . Gulf Air operated an L-1011-200 as well so I hope we could see that one day.

Yep and Yep!

 

[AustrianCollector]

I didn't realize how rare the Gulf Air Tristar from NG has become. Glad I got mine back when NG announced it

I really hope they bring it back. Also the Air Lanka and Hawaiian are rare too!

 

[abdulmohiuddin]

Into more detail with the Gulf Air L-1011 variants that could be made, there are 2 that could be done.

The Gulf Air L-1011-200

It would be almost exactly identical to the previous release apart from having the Frisbee Faring and the engines. This example in particular served with an American registration N92TA for the first 10 years, then was transferred to the Omani registrar for 8 more years as A4O-TA.

Gulf Air L-1011-1

This one would be more interesting, as the scheme would have a few minor differences. The belly is entirely white and the Arabic text is more cursive and less blocky. It was leased from TWA from 1977 to 1981, keeping it's American registration N41020. (Thank you @Phantom for pointing out that this is the delivery scheme. A commendable attention to detail)

NG have made variants of popular subjects in the past(Ex. Delta and TWA L-1011's), and making any of the above mentioned wouldn't require too much work from them. I would like to see these being made one day, but I'd like to avoid a situation where these don't sell because the potential market was taken by the earlier Gulf Air from 2021.

 

[Purpleplane]

Just arrived...Eastern 727-025 N8140N by Aeroclassics. Thank you Andrew, 1 more I can cross off of my wish list.

 

[Phantom]

This one would be more interesting, as the scheme would have a few minor differences. The belly is entirely white and the Arabic text is more cursive and less blocky. It was leased from TWA from 1977 to 1981, keeping it's American registration N41020.

These are the original ("delivery") colours. They might do A4O-TW, TX or TZ in these colours, complete with the early long hot section cowls.

 

[josecolme]

A few recent Aeroclassics.
The 400 hangar release Tame.
A fixable GJ USAir 727.
AC Tap 737-300
A custom victim erj-145.