Wings News 2005 (1)

Here you can find my find my older 1/500 news (January-April 2005) 1/500 news from Herpa, BigBird, Netmodels, etc.

If you need older news - take a look at the archives

Saturday, 23.04.05:

Herpa - now available:

514675 Airbus A310-300 (MRT) Luftwaffe 10+26 Hans Grade

(picture www.ptcity.com.hk)

Netmodels - new release:

Boeing 747-400F Deutsche Post - Danzas - DHL (fantasy)

(picture www.wings900.com)

Herpa - WingsWorld 02/2005 news:

Hapag-Lloyd Set 1/1000 A310-300 and 737-800 new color, 737-400 old color

Qantas 747-200 „City of Parramatta“ (eXtra-Event)

LTU DC-4 and Fokker F27 old color

Mekong Airlines 737-500 (WingsClub)

Boeing 727 - shorter front landing gear will be used for all future models

Lockheed HC-130 with additional fuel tanks

(pictures www.herpa.de)

Wednesday, 20.04.05:

Netmodels:

CX A380 and both Emirates Cargo 747 also available as golden release

Herpa - now available:

514590 NFD ATR-72

(picture www.aviation-center.de)

514637 Lufthansa A321 Retro (no VIP-Set, available at LH-Worldshop)

Some pictures from recent Nuremberg Airport 50th Anniversary:

Colorful ADAC Dornier Do-328 Jet

Lufthansa A321 Retro - used for sightseeing flights around Nuremberg (the price was 19.55 €;-)

No Herpa models were sold onboard, but all passengers got a little snack in a LH Retro bag:-)

Herpa Museum - old plastic samples:

Herpa Museum - new residential area diorama:

Herpa/Hogan/Lysia - not new, but just landed at "Kirchhellen International Airport":

air Hongkong A300-600F

Tuesday, 12.04.05:

BigBird - coming soon:

BA 707 - seven different versions

(pictures www.toymaxco.cc)

Pan Am 707 N418PA

Pan Am Cargo 707 N457PA

Pan American 707 N473PA

(pictures www.aviation-center.de)

Herpa:

LH Retro A321 as a part of a VIP-Set containing:

- special bag

- Lufthansa Inflight Magazine 04/2005

- book "Die Zeit im Fluge" (LH history)

- special journal "50 Years Lufthansa"

- Herpa A321 LH Retro

- 15 postcards

(picture posted at www.ebay.de by traller)

Wednesday, 06.04.05:

Netmodels - missing photo

Already announced before, but without photo - Netmodels Emirates Cargo 747-400F

Two releases with different registrations: N415MC and N408MC

(picture by Norbert Rechter)

Tuesday, 05.04.05:

BigBird - coming soon:

Boeing 707 British Airways "British" red tail

(information by www.airparadigm.com)

Netmodels - coming soon:

Emirates Cargo 747-400F (posted at www.wings900.com, to be confirmed)

Monday, 04.04.05:

New from Herpa:

514637 Lufthansa A321-100 D-AIRX retro livery 50 Years LH - exclusively for LH

will be available at LH WorldShop later

(picture posted by Faucett Peru at www.wings900.com)

New golden Netmodels:

China Airlines 707

China Airlines Cargo 707

Flying Tiger Line 707

Flying Tiger Line El Al 707

El Al 707

(pictures by UweP posted at www.wings900.com)

Wednesday, 30.03.05:

Netmodels - coming soon:

Cathay Pacific A380

Air Bridge Cargo 747

(pictures pureplane@hotmail.com)

Herpa - new releases May - June 2005:

(pictures www.herpa.de)

Wednesday, 23.03.05:

Herpa - coming soon:

NH50031 - ANA 2005 Pokemon B747-400D Reg. JA8956

(information www.wings900.com)

Sunday, 20.03.05:

Herpa - coming soon:

504492 Air Do 767-200 NG

(picture www.crosswing.jp)

Saturday, 19.03.05:

Modelpower:

Model Power will begin producing 1/500 Aircraft models this year.

(information www.wings900.com)

Herpa:

According to the pictures now available at www.aviation-center.de Pepsi Concorde and Dragonair A320-200 are NOT new (NG) as posted here before , but models from the old production run (Classic Wings). Sorry for that;-)

Friday, 18.03.05:

Netmodels - new releases:

Boeing 707 Flying Tiger Line El Al

Boeing 707 El Al

(pictures Johan Chan)

Herpa - now available:

514385 Tupolev Tu-154B Armenian Airlines (WingsClub)

Wednesday, 16.03.05:

Herpa - re-release:

508841 Iberia A321-200 NG2

Herpa - coming soon:

Boeing 737-400 JAL oc

~~Concorde Pepsi NG~~ NOT new (NG), but model from the old production run (Classic Wing)

~~Dragonair A320-200 NG2~~ NOT new (NG), but model from the old production run (Classic Wing)

(pictures www.aviation-center.de)

BigBird - coming soon:

New mould Boeing 707

Netmodels - new release;

Flying Tiger Line Boeing 707

Dear Collectors!

Because of hardware problems I could not update this web during last days.

But my computer is OK now and news will follow soon:-)

Sunday, 06.03.05:

Herpa - coming soon (eXtra Shop):

514248 Lufthansa DC-8-51 oc (limited 1200)

(picture www.herpa.de)

Tuesday, 01.03.05:

Herpa - coming soon (LH Worldshop):

1700347 Set with Airbus A380 and Lockheed L-1049G (limited 500)

(picture www.lh-worldshop.de / Thank you Martin:-)

Saturday, 26.02.05:

Herpa - now available:

514309 Set with DC-10-30 Africa One and DC-10-30 Spantax

(special release www.aviation-center.de)

Herpa:

Due to unsolved licence problems Concorde Coca-Cola will NOT be released!

(information www.aviation-center.de)

Herpa/Hogan:

CX-set 1/1000 has been released in two versions

Same models, same stands, but boxes with different hight (1.8 and 2.1 cm):

Maybe because it is very difficult to put all models and stands in the smaller box;-)

Thursday, 24.02.05:

Speedie Air (5Stars) - now available:

Orient Thai One-Two-Go 747-300 (SJ mould, SJ stand)

Already announced before (08.12.04) as a forthcoming BigBird or Netmodels release, but in fact it is a Speedie Air release:-)

(picture www.toymaxco.cc)

Sunday, 20.02.05:

Herpa - re-release:

510875 BAe 146-300 Air Berlin - smaller L3 belly logo (3 mm)

Friday, 18.02.05:

Back from Nuremberg - due to some snow and ice in southern Germany a little bit later than planned;-)

"Oh, by the way, the same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?" "Same procedure as every year, James."

Yes, same procedure, same location (Toy Fair exhibition hall 7), but:

A complete new Herpa stand

including a darkroom

The home of the new fantastic "Herport International" - a diorama to demonstrate the forthcoming new designed buildings and accessories (showed as samples) and the lighting system.

"Herport International" impressions in daytime:

AirService:

AirGourmet:

Cargo Center:

Herport Congress Centre:

Some more details:

Change of light at "Herport International":

More "Herport International" impressions in the night:

New Herpa models 1/500:

- Convair 440

- Embraer ERJ-135 and ERJ-145

- IL-86 / IL-96 (to be confirmed)

- some more smaller aircrafts (still top secret)

- a lot of accessories and buildings (including features for the space around the airport

e.g. houses, tennis court, swimming pool)

- lighting system

New Herpa models 1/1000:

In addition to the annual Toy Fair Car model in 1/87 scale Herpa released the first Toy Fair Wings model (Boeing 747-400 1/1000 in red and silver with Herpa imprints) this year. The model was used as a give-away by Herpa at the Toy Fair.

Other 1/1000 samples showed in Nuremberg:

Magic models 1/600 - made by Herpa:

10 models / 7 different aircraft types, a favourably priced alternative,

entirely made of metal - but they really look like toys;-)

For more details and pictures take a look at www.magic-promotion.com ;-)

Did not find any new brand presenting models in 1/500 scale;-)

Preiser news 2005:

89501 - civil airline personnel, travellers and airport personnel, 18 unpainted figures, kit

First news from WingsWorld 01/2005 (new "paint scheme"):

- Tu-154 Armenian Airlines - WingsClub release 01/2005

- ATR 72 NFD - Nürnberger Flugdienst

- A310-300 MRT Luftwaffe - 10+26 Hans Grade - special model for the flood disaster

Saturday, 12.02.05:

Netmodels - new release:

China Airlines 707 Cargo - gold

New samples spotted:

StarJets DC-8 Delta

(posted by Aiagaia at www.wings900.com)

Herpa A330-300 Air Luxor

(posted by altino at www.wings900.com)

Leaving now for Nuremberg Toy Fair and Dietenhofen......... next news not before next Wednesday:-)

Tuesday, 08.02.05:

Herpa - new releases March/April 2005:

514491	De Havilland	DH 106 Comet IV	Aerolineas Argentinas	new mould 2005
514514	Boeing	737-700	Air Berlin	Dreamliner
514330	Douglas	DC-9-10	Boeing	Boeing Milestone Series
506694	Boeing	777-300ER	Boeing Fleet	.
514521	Airbus	A380-800	Emirates Airline	.
514538	Airbus	A330-200	Etihad Airways	.
505543	Boeing	737-800	Malév - Hungarian Airlines	.
514545	Airbus	A340-600	Qatar Airways	used also for inflight sale without model or box differences
514453	Tupolev	Tu-214	Russia State Transport Company	.
510684	Boeing	737-500	Southwest Airlines	Shamu
514507	Boeing	MD-11	Thai Airways	.
514446	Douglas	DC-9-10	TWA - Trans World Airlines	.
504126	Boeing	747-100	United Airlines	.
514439	Bombardier	CRJ200	United Express	nc
520362		Accessories	Zubehör / Accessories	Airport Basic Set 1

Herpa - re-release:

514460 Airbus House Color A330-300 - New Generation

Monday, 07.02.05:

Herpa/Hogan - now available:

NH50022 ANA 777-200 Star Alliance

(picture www.toymaxco.cc)

5Stars - new releases:

FSFD112A FedEx MD-11 Panda Express - second release with Panda picture above wings

(sample already shown before)

FSVG113A Virgin Atlantic A340-300 old color G-VSKY

FSVG107 Virgin Atlantic A340-300 new color G-VSUN

(pictures www.ptcity.com.hk)

New samples spotted:

Herpa Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-400 "We're going to Disneyland!"

(picture posted at eBay by ferrari308quattro)

StarJets (?) DC-8-50 Orbis

(picture posted at www.wings900.com by lollomz)

StarJets Air China 777-200

(picture posted at eBay by inandoutshop)

Nuremberg Toy Fair 10th - 15th February:

I will visit the Nuremberg Toy Fair and herpa / Dietenhofen next week. I hope that I can give you some fresh information and photos on 16th or 17th of February:-)

Saturday, 29.01.05:

5Stars - now available: