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Wings900 Exclusive Large Scale Mode Announcement! |
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At 11:00 AM on October 29th, 2005 at the 2005 Boston Airline Show Wings900 unveiled the following two large scale models that may be manufactured especially for Wings900 and DAC users!
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Continental Airlines Boeing 777-200
1:100 Scale
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Continental Airlines Boeing 747-200
1:144 Scale |
Model Information
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The photos below are from FIRST RUN samples; that is the manufacturer did not have our "want" and "wish list", they produced the models for us with out any suggestions or comments
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What you see below is a list of items/details that will be added, as well as corrections that we will be doing on each model
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Production timeframe is late Q1 or early Q2 '06 if the second run samples pass our inspection
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Purchasing information will follow in the coming weeks.
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Both will be limited releases, under 50 units total for each
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Models are fully licensed by Continental Airlines, Licensing agreements have been finalized
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Photos below show a 1:500 scale Continental Airlines Boeing B737-700 for size comparison
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Models will be available through Wings900.com and select retailers
Model Features
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Cast Poly-Resin
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Acrylic/Metal Stand
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Individually numbered on the bottom of the fuselage
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Numbered Certificate of licensing and authenticity
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747 is one piece, 777 comes in three pieces (fuselage, two wings)
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UV Protective clear coat
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Hand polished for a lasting finish
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1:144 scale features spinning fan blades
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Continental Airlines Boeing 777-200
1:100 Scale
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Additions
- Rain Guards
- Fan blades, hub, inner cowlings printed a dark grey.
- Rotation markings on center of fan blades
- Pitot tubes and additional ports
- Additional door details on the upper half of the door.
- Pocket windows
- Bottom lower edge of pylon in a darker shade of grey
- OnePass advertisement next to L2 door
- Nose gear registration and etops markings, nose gear door printed
- Underside flap markings
- Additional wing details such as no step markings
- Tail number of the aircraft printed: 006
- Additional detailing near the horizontal stabilizer
- Add lights, navigation lights, landing lights, etc.
- Additional ports on underside of fuselage
- Silver stripe on underside of fuselage
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Corrections
- Add registration: N77006
- Add name: Robert F. Six
- Bottom of doors will be raised half way through the gold cheat line.
- Top of doors will have a thinner darker grey similar to the bottom.
- SkyTeam logo slightly rotated
- Cockpit windows raised and slightly modified in shape
- Corrected engine colors
- Engine exhaust in darker shade of grey
- Corrected upper and lower wing colors
- Leading edge printed in silver
- Slightly darker tail color
- Thinner white stripes on tail globe
- Corrected globe shape, and repositioning
- Space Continental letters slightly further apart,
- Silver leading edge on tail, thinner white top, white at bottom of tail
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Continental Airlines Boeing 747-200
1:144 Scale
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Additions
- Printed Tail Number behind L5 and R5 doors
- Tail Number and details printed on nose gear
- Tail Number : 019
- Navigation lights, landing lights…etc..
- Darker internal engine colors, and fan blade hub details
- Pitot tubes and other ports
- Rain guards
- Silver markings on lower fuselage
- Pocket windows (2 behind L1 and R1 door, 1 in front of 13 windows in front of L1 R1 door
- Outline center wing and center vertical stabilizer in black
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Corrections
- Add registration N78019
- Continental titles need to be slighty modified
- Silver leading edge on tail
- Globe position and shape corrected
- White stripes within globe corrected
- Corrected wings colors
- Corrected leading edge printing
- Corrected engines and engine colors
- Flag position slightly lowered
- Refine cockpit window frames and redo cockpit windows to Martinair MD-11 style
- One less upper deck window
- Correct horiztonal stabilizer markings
- Re-design of engine fan blades
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*These are Requested Modifications and Additions, there is no guarantee that these will be in the final product | |
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