Another interesting collection, this time 100% sure where it is from. SF Express official souvenir, 1:400 B747-4EVERF B-2422, manufactured by JC Wings. It actually stayed in my collection for quite a while, but I didn't realized its value and even already piled it up in my loft
(I actually didn't have one but you know what I means), untill I digged it out again recently.
I said "interesting", because it's a perfect example of the relationship between JC Wings and Gemini Jets - despite branded by JC, it's a 100% original flavored, old-fashioned GJ model.
For the beginning, it came with an absolutely Gemini Jet-style box, only with all markings and logos being replaced by SF Express:
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The coordinates on the cover is the position of SF Airline's major logistics hub in China, Ezhou Huahu Int'n (EHU/ZHEC).
And, of course, the cover can be fliped:
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Then, when you took it out of the box, you will immediately found why I said it's "interesting" -
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Obviously, for whatever reasons, JC Wings didn't using their new 747-400F mould for those souvenirs.
Instead, they just somehow find out the oldest, original Gemini Jets 747-100/200 mould from nowhere, and modified it to be a 747-400F!
You can clearly see all these features of the old GJ 747 mould - simple, stalks-like landing gears, clumsy pylon/wing joints, no aerials, and the seam between the cradle wing and the fuselage. It just slightly improved, removing the second seam of the horizontal stabs.
Followings are the only changes they made to make it a 747-400F. First, and obviously, swapping the engines from P&W JT9D to GE CF6-80s:
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The pylons also seems to be a bit rounder than those old GJ 747 classics, though still looks very clumsy, as well as the nacelle.
Second, and imo the funniest one, is they just scrawling added an extended section of the wingtip with winglets, to make it a 747-400 wing. You can even see the seam on the mould:
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They even keep the base of HF aerials, probably using for the fuel vent pipes.
The wingtip did looked better underneath though, seamless and correctly extended the leading edge slats:
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Third and the last, they changed the roots of the wings, to have the right shape of wing/fuselage join fairing.
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And this is how you changed your 747-200 into a 747-400F. Thanks for watching.
I really didn't know why they decided to use this mould. The also have another 747-400F mould that is modified from GJ's 747-200 mould, before they released their own brand-new seamless
(but somehow worse shaped) mould, but that's from the updated or "modernized" mould, with rolling, more detailed gears and aerials, like this house color 747-400F prototype:
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(I have already purchased this too and is anxiously waiting it to be delivered by the express now.)
And they also produced their own (i.e. not sold under SF's name) SF Airlines 747-400F with the same mould, for the EXACTLY SAME AIRCRAFT:
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A reason could be it's cheaper, and it indeed comes with a fairly low price, for me it's ¥155 I think. But also for the same reason, I didn't recognized it's the old GJ mould at first, and just piled it up after checking. I searching for a good GJ 747 classic mould for quite a while, only to forgot I actually (kind of) already have one.