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This year marks my 10th years as a 1/400 collector. I used to have an extensive collection for someone my age but I sold them away to make way for 1/72 collection, which I regretted beyond words.

Just last week I bought 3 747 classic from HX. I think this year is a goung to be a great year especially for retro series collector, as several manufacturers has comes up with their own 747s mould freeing us from the tyranny of grossly overpriced bigbird and aeroclassic 😅

In frame:
1. Garuda Indonesia B747-200 PK-GSA (City of Jakarta)
2. PAN AM B747-100 N735PA (Clipper Constitution)
3. PAN AM B747-100 N747PA (Clipper Juan T. Trippe)17558520422043682827553610252684.jpg17558520667832236556702345899780.jpg17558520950691475140348529082939.jpg
 
It's not all been DC-9s arriving recently. I also picked up this NZ 747-400 - an old 2013 Witty release. I used to see this aircraft a lot at AKL. Here shes in the intermediate scheme after the Pacific Wave was dropped and a darker tail adopted, but before the current livery.

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And I've been reorganising my Kiwi shelf to fit her in:

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Three obvious adds to my USAir fleet that proved quite difficult to find!

The AC 737 came from eBay (I for sure overpaid) while the 2 T-tails were from Waffle's collection sale - a great source of hard to find models.
The DC-9 is by NetModels and I frankly didn't even know it existed! There were no pics of it in Madb ...until now, that is.
The chrome MD-80 is by Jet-X on the Dragon mould. Inferior by today's standards but still a great model with a comically shiny finish.
The last photo made me laugh because the model almost looks black from the lighting.
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I take it the two tone grey (belly vs. engine) is just the picture.

I never realized HX overtook the way too long #2/3 pylons from JC. The nacelle to wing clearance should be the same for all four engines.
I am not sure about the color, I will have to check. It might be the photo.
 
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