The History of The 1:400 747-100 in 5 Models

Jazajia

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Some of you may remember an old blog post of mine titled "A Poor Man's Classic 747 Collection in 1:400 Scale." (You can see here). It boils down to the struggle of chasing rare models.

For many years, I only had one Pan Am 747-100 in the Billboard livery in my 1:400 collection, but recently, thanks to HX and the Waffle collection sale, I finally consider myself satisfied in this area.

Now I have five iterations of 1:400 Pan Am 741s in the Billboard livery distributed as follows: 1999, 2005, 2008, 2015, and 2025. I thought it was a good opportunity to do a recap of the evolution of the 747-100 in 1:400 scale.

The article is long, but I genuinely encourage you to at least scroll all the way down to see a quite comprehensive series of comparison shots side-to-side that I think most 1:400 collectors interested in the 747-100 will find valuable.

Click below to see the article:

The History of the 1:400 747-100 in 5 Models

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Some of you may remember an old blog post of mine titled "A Poor Man's Classic 747 Collection in 1:400 Scale." (You can see here). It boils down to the struggle of chasing rare models.

For many years, I only had one Pan Am 747-100 in the Billboard livery in my 1:400 collection, but recently, thanks to HX and the Waffle collection sale, I finally consider myself satisfied in this area.

Now I have five iterations of 1:400 Pan Am 741s in the Billboard livery distributed as follows: 1999, 2005, 2008, 2015, and 2025. I thought it was a good opportunity to do a recap of the evolution of the 747-100 in 1:400 scale.

The article is long, but I genuinely encourage you to at least scroll all the way down to see a quite comprehensive series of comparison shots side-to-side that I think most 1:400 collectors interested in the 747-100 will find valuable.

Click below to see the article:

The History of the 1:400 747-100 in 5 Models

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Fantastic article and models, Jorge! Great comparison. Well, the HX version really stands out for me, but Gemini is also a strong option... I just don't like their pylons, the engines look so poorly attached. The HX have the annoying gear length aswell, but these two are the best IMO. Aeroclassics/BigBird as a third place. Dragon have a great shape but sadly the cockpit windows look tiny. Magic is the last one in my opinion, i'm not really a fan of their mould
 
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