Solomon’s 1/500 fleet

[s4lmon8]

BA 1011-500 "The Hairy Wheatcraft Rose". BA was the first customer of the 500 variant and this livery is absolutely STUNNING

 

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PA "Clipper Black Hawk". Came across this at a very good price so had to get this even though my main focus is not American carriers.

 

[s4lmon8]

Tu-144 aka the Russian Concorde. Comparing to the Concorde it is sharper and rougher around the edges, losing the elegance of the Concorde imo. I wish Herpa made a version with the nose down and winglets extended! That would be very unique.

 

[s4lmon8]

Concorde probably? my fav aircraft of all time. It still amazes me that we could used to fly at twice the speed of sound and get across the Atlantic in less than 4 hours. Hopefully boom supersonic will bring this back to life and brings the next chapter in civil aviation! I am also happy that herpa made the droop snoot stage of the plane which is super unique and iconic

 

[s4lmon8]

Also the classic AF livery. I think I'm just missing the modern AF livery as well as the other factory prototype in normal config.

 

[LeoMuse747]

Nice collection of supersonic birds Herpa did a good job with the Concorde with lowered nose.

 

[s4lmon8]

SCA N905NA with Enterprise. Another engineering masterpiece, and I am a sucker for the AA chrome livery.

 

[s4lmon8]

Nice collection of supersonic birds Herpa did a good job with the Concorde with lowered nose.

I was surprised to find out that Herpa made them! May end up getting the Pan Am, BI fantasy liveries and also find the rare SQ one too!

 

[s4lmon8]

A300 "Clipper America", kind of ironic that the title is on an non-US aircraft. Also very impressed by the GE logo on the engine that you can barely make out with naked eyes!

 

[s4lmon8]

Swissair - Lufthansa A310, 2 beautiful classic liveries on the same plane!

 

[Charter]

I wonder why Herpa did not produce the old, classic OG A300 and A310 in NG! No license problems, airlines now demised by so many years, so it would have been a good way to relaunch the collection.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[s4lmon8]

I wonder why Herpa did not produce the old, classic OG A300 and A310 in NG! No license problems, airlines now demised by so many years, so it would have been a good way to relaunch the collection.
Thanks for sharing.

Yeah..I think there are a300 in Lufthansa & classic AirFrance livery (but very hard to find)? Also Eastern, Qatar and also the cargo ones. Anyways it is a shame that such significant aircrafts are under-represented in 1:500 I really want the a300 in AirFrance colours (or lack of colours haha)

 

[s4lmon8]

BEA/ Eastern hybrid promo livery Tristar which attended the 1972 Farnborough air show. I was surprised that they made this livery. Unfortunately the front gear of mine snapped and the right engine is misaligned... Hopefully I can find a better sample! A fun fact is that when the Tristar entered service BEA no longer existed and became BA, therefore this was the only Tristar that wore a BEA livery.

 

[s4lmon8]

Just had these come in! Very excited to take some photos of them properly later…