Spot the A330!!!

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Quick bit of fun. There's obviously been some chat about the Kylin A330 recently so I thought I'd whip up a quick photo comparison of it with 2 other 400 scale A330s. But which ones and which one's which? It just so happens I own an Air China example of each, which makes it harder to identify based on the release.

I have removed the aerials to make it slightly harder too. Equally interesting is the fact that the belly colour and cheatline colour of all 3 are different despite Air China being one of the most reproduced schemes in 400 scale history! There's some questionable placement of the cheatline at the nosecone on all 3 too.

So can you identify them? I'm not expecting this to be especially hard I admit.

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Quick bit of fun. There's obviously been some chat about the Kylin A330 recently so I thought I'd whip up a quick photo comparison of it with 2 other 400 scale A330s. But which ones and which one's which? It just so happens I own an Air China example of each, which makes it harder to identify based on the release.

I have removed the aerials to make it slightly harder too. Equally interesting is the fact that the belly colour and cheatline colour of all 3 are different despite Air China being one of the most reproduced schemes in 400 scale history! There's some questionable placement of the cheatline at the nosecone on all 3 too.

So can you identify them? I'm not expecting this to be especially hard I admit.

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Top: Kylin (cockpit window print is off).
Middle: NG or Panda (windshield window scale is too small).
Bottom: AeroClassics (again too small windshield window, but AeroClassics print the outline).

Funny that all of them are off with the vertical positioning and/or scale of the windshield windows. The last one even has an oversized side/sliding window.
 
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Top : Kylin
Middle: NG
Bottom: Aeroclassics

Btw this is a great idea and more of these should be done! Especially with so many manufacturers producing the same moulds nowadays🤣.
 
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