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

[Jazajia]

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​

 

[LeoMuse747]

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

 

[Jazajia]

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

Thanks, Leo.

Yeah, none of them are perfect, but some look much better than the others. Since 747 windows in 400 scale tend to be oversized, the DW ones looked okay to me until I put them all side by side and realized how tiny they are. Yes, Magic is too poor. Some liveries help hide. It's ugliness, though. The Viasa example below looks alright to me (yet, another example of how Magic shamelessly copied a lot of what Aeroclassics was doing at the time):



I agree that, being as objective as possible, GeminiJets is the second best. But for me, it is too easy to let my subjectivity give that place to Aeroclasics. I don't care, I have them both