Virgin Atlantic 747-41R G-VWOW 1:400 Apollo Jan 2014 release
Virgin Atlantic’s old colours still confuse model makers
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Lufthansa 737-330 D-ABXZ AeroClassics 1:400 Nov 2013 Release
A very close real life sister: This is a model of the now delisted Lufthansa 737-330 D-ABXZ named “Bad Mergentheim” (Bad is German for spa) during her days on the Lufthansa Express service, a short lived attempt at early day low cost competition. The reason I bought it was that I hand’t realised there were […]
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Decent packaging from Phoenix The aircraft is a model of a 787-9 which at the time of writing is dues to go into service with ANZ in the next few weeks. ANZ are the first to take delivery of the 787-9 and this one is painted in the new All Black scheme. The box is […]
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A good model that could have been great
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Good, but not good enough for the money
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Originally as I never purchased this new but from a fellow collector, I wasn’t going to review it but it’s such a small and frankly excellent little model it’s grown on me. I have a reputation for hammering Gemini for poor quality relative to the price they charge and it was an opportunity to point […]
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An all round excellent model from Phoenix
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Top marks for a top model
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commercial acceptability rather than excellence
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Virgin Atlantic 747-443 G-VROM Apollo A13064 1:400 January 2014 Release The model is of G-VROM, one of a group that Virgin Atlantic acquired relatively cheaply from Boeing when Alitalia cancelled its order. She was delivered pretty much straight into a declining market and Virgin didn’t know what to do with her. She was leased from […]
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