Here you can find my older 1/500 news (2002)

from Herpa, StarJets, etc.

Thursday, 19.12.02:

New BigBirds:

China Airlines oc 747 - will come with two different registrations

British Airways / Qantas 747-400 - with Denmark tail

SIA 747 - will come with two different registrations

New DreamJets:

Air Canada A 320 - Raptors

Monday, 16.12.02:

New Herpa model: Australia Asia 747SP de Luxe with registration VH-EAB and red stand

Tuesday, 10.12.02:

The next Netmodels - China Southern 747-400F

Wednesday, 27.11.02:

Another one for those interested:

Netmodels ANZ "All Black"

Tuesday, 26.11.02:

Another picture for those interested:

DreamJets Delta MD 11 Atlanta 96

Thursday, 21.11.02:

Just for my friend Claus:-) A picture of the new Netmodels JAL Disney Tour (there will be two releases 747-200 and 747-300):

Tuesday, 05.11.02:

Schuco announced some old StarJets models for "Special Sale" (e.g. 9995001 L1011 Air Canada, 9995025 A 340-300 Lan Chile). These models and boxes are identical to the previous released StarJets models!!

Wednesday, 16.10.02:

Lufthansa Skyshop released some new models in new LH Edition box.

Here for example the box of the new 1666046 Vickers Viscount 814 D-ANAC:

Tuesday, 20.08.02:

The C&C homepage http://miniworldmodels.bizland.com/home/index.html has been suspended.

There has not been any update during last weeks.

Wednesday, 31.07.02:

A picture of new (and first) C&C A 330 Gulf Air, colorful, but the printing is of less quality!!!

Sunday, 07.07.02:

A first picture of CX 747 Asia's World City made by Hogan/Herpa

Saturday, 06.07.02:

There is a new manufacturer for blimps in 1/500: ZZ-Modelle from Germany! Until now four different models are released, a fifth model "Stuttgarter Hofbräu" will follow soon.

The plastic models are very good detailed. The printing is good. They were presented in a display box.

Here are some pictures of released models:

This one will be released soon:

This is the homepage of the real blimps made by WDL, Germany

Monday, 24.06.02:

Do you remember the little Airbus House Color A 319 with additional printing http://spares.airbus.com on the fuselage?

It was sold at Herpa eXtra shop for very short time some month ago with a normal Herpa box as it was delivered from Herpa to Airbus. But Airbus used this model as a gift at the "Airbus Materiel Symposium 2001", presented in a little very orange wooden box filled - besides the model itself - with excelsior:-)

By the way. The additional printing was done by Herpa at Dietenhofen.

Friday, 07.06.02:

First picture of forthcoming Christmas Beluga 2002:

Tuesday, 21.05.02:

Another new manufacturer for 1/500 models: netmodels

Two first free models are available for USD 10 s/h each:

More Boeing 757 limited to 999 pcs. will follow. Next release will be Air Holland 757:-)

Saturday, 13.04.02:

New Schuco/StarJets-Releases announced for 05-08/2002:

Saturday, 12.01.02:

Royal Australian Air Force Boing 707-300C "Windsor Town" A20-627 was released by Hogan. The box looks similar to the Royal Netherlands Air Force Fokker F 70 and Royal Air Force BAe 146:

Thank you Uwe for the information and the pictures:-)

International Toy Fair Nuremberg 2002 will take place 31th of January until 5th of February. Hope that I can tell you some news here on 3rd of February:-)))