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Herpa Emirates B 777-31HER 1:500
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Written by jkwan12345
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012 |
Description
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With a total of over 100 “Triple Sevens” of various series, Emirates majorly contributed to the fact that Boeing was now able to deliver the 1000th 777, which also went to the Dubai-based airline. That particular model will be released in the future. This model, however, is one that collectors waited for for a long, long time. It has finally been released, and thankfully it has been done exquisitely well.
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Model Details
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Airline: Emirates
Make: Boeing
Model: 777-31HER
Scale:
1:500
Part Number: 518277
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Model Review
| | Mould and Assembly: The Herpa NGII 777 mould has gone through a bit of refining. I'm happy to report that the current mould is impeccably done. While a few of the earlier models off this mould had drastically misaligned cockpit windows, that is all in the past now.
The nose is very 777 like. It is not too pointy, not too blunt, and represents the aircraft well. Cockpit windows are also nicely done. Moving back, the wings are laterally inserted and very clean, and the engines are nice and large like the GE90's should be. The exhaust and fan are moulded separately, giving extra detail. The wing is crisp and thin, and the tail is nice too, along with the landing gear Overall, great mould.
Extra possible details? Herpa could add the little pointy tip on the top of the tail cone, and also the tip on the winglet, like sky500's.
Livery: The emirates livery - simple enough, right?
Herpa has done the livery good. It's "EMIRATES" placement is spot on, on the correct windows. And the website underneath is nice too. The logo on the engines is correct. And the emirates "billboard" beneath the wingbox is done well too.
My only gripe? the red on the tail shouldn't be touching the leading edge of the tail; there should be a bit of white space.
Details: Details are okay. Some nice ones to mention:
Herpa has mastered the 777 windshield wipers. They're apparent, but not so apparent that they look fake (Hogan's do sometimes) - they're just on the edge of the cockpit. There's a nice anti collision light on top of the fuselage, and the configuration of the windows is done well (where Emirates has plugged windows, Herpa has not printed a window - look at the first class). Herpa has also printed the black line on the wings.
I'm dismayed Herpa didn't print the exit markers on the wings too, as they have on other recent 777's. And I wish there were more detail all over the largely eurowhite fuselage and engines.
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Pluses
| | Mould! great 777
Overall, livery is nice
Cockpit windshield wipers done well.
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Minuses
| | Quality control - inserted wings require glue to keep the wings in, glue that's not always there or enough
Tail livery
details!
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Photos
Editor review: Well worth waiting for.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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| Overall rating |
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8.8 |
| Mould and Assembly
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10.0 |
| Livery
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9.0 |
| Details
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6.0 |
| Overall Impression |
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10.0 |
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