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NEW RELEASE: 1:500 Herpa Qantas Airways B 747-438
Aircraft: B 747-438 Scale: 1:500 Country: Australia Continent: Oceania Part #: 506830 Wings900 ID#: 20769 Release Date: 2009 Disc Date: NA Units Produced: Unlimited Remarks: "2008s" Colors. Window Code: W2 Box Code: B12 Registration:*VH-OEB Engines: 4 RB211-524G Add to My Collection Add to My Wish List Model Photographs

hikouki

If the registration is correct, then this will be a yesterday model.

The same aircraft is already flying in OW special scheme:


But it did fly in the new colors for some time:

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SouthwestAirlines

Intresting find. The seams are very noticiable though, it discourages me from buying this model.

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hikouki

If you mean the metal rudder (vertical tailfin), then this has been a feature of many recent 747 releases...

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SouthwestAirlines

I'm talking about the seam underneath the wings, and then the one you pointed out between the vertical stabilizer and the fuselage. The colors and the NG gear are great but on this aircraft those seams just bother me too much for my liking.

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hikouki

Going back to the reggo...If Herpa really wanted to add some variety by putting on the new livery to a QF plane with a different engine (GE not the usual RR), then I wonder why this particular registration was chosen, a 747-48E and not one of the ~438ERs.

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LAX-777

This will look good with the A380! I hope it will be cheaper though...

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PT-TAA

Humm, this could be my 8th QF 747!

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Vuele Vueling

VH-OEB is a -438ER.

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B727

Did it ever come to your mind that the airlines do have a say in which reg they like to see produced? As in some cases we already did see fantasy regs (Etihad) or no regs at all (Etihad or older Aeroflot releases) at the airlines request.
Might be this airplane was a special choice by Qantas. Maybe it was the first with the revised colours. If you see how long it takes from the initial idea to the final production, it is simply impossible to keep up with all possible changes to the real aircraft. Just look at what happened to the SQ Tropical...

Admittedly, Herpa made and makes mistakes, but I simply can't agree to all and every complaint towards them. Many people here were hoping for a Qantas B747-400 in the revised colours and now that it's announced you're complaining about the registration???...

Maybe it would be better for everyones peace and happiness if Herpa left model airplanes completely and focused on model cars (their core business) instead!

hikouki

Did you even click on the photos I linked? It clearly states at the info box at the bottom "747-48E."

And if that isn't enough, try this list:
CH-Aviation - Airline News, Fleet Lists & More
The VH-OEx series is reserved for all GE-powered 744s and the first three are non-ERs. In fact, this one (~48E) is from OZ and the next two (~4H6) are from MH. The rest (~438ER) are QF ERs.

I've been collecting for almost 10 years now and have been a member of HWC for 9 years. I should know about these. But like what many are wondering about this, is that it isn't usual for an airline by itself to have one of its "adopted" (i.e., 'ntu') planes made into a model unless Herpa decided it has novelty value say for the eXtra shop, or any other special occasion for that matter. Certainly, the 747-438ERs have more significance for QF and QF collectors alike than the 747-48E or the 747-4H6s? All the more that this particular plane is already flying in a different livery (i.e., OW) and that others from the same fleet could have instead been made in its place.

It is completely understandable why the SQ tropical will never get produced legally. If you think otherwise, read the wiki pages about SQ 006. I don't know why this issue keeps coming up. If you still insist, then I suggest you stuff it up...

If Herpa can't stand the heat in the business, then they should pack their bags and go. Simple as that. They put out their products and it is the buyers who decide if they are good enough. And if business has been good but their financial statements are still down, then they are guilty of bad management. Such is the dictum of the free and global economy. We don't live in the feudal ages with the patron-client system anymore! It's a free market economy and it is not social welfare - so people should not buy this and that, and let this and that faulty product pass simply because we pity them, we care for them, blah blah blah. Unless of course you work for Herpa yourself, then I completely understand your sentiments.

Don't get me wrong, this latest release is very much welcome, although I'm simply pointing out that it COULD have been better. Undoubtedly, people are going to eventually want the OW scheme too and what then? If that model comes out, will it have the same reg as this one? This is my basic sentiment and I am simply expressing it as this is a FORUM. Or it should be.

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EuregioAndreas

According to an email i wrote, Herpa won't change the livery. This model will be published with the standard livery not with the oneworld.

Vuele Vueling

Sorry about that, hikouki.

I had forgotten that Qantas had the -438E with the -ER engines. -OEB frequents JFK and I'm always used to thinking the aircraft that make it all the way to JFK as QF107/108 are the -ER aircraft.

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arhang1219

For now they won't change the livery and remains in the standard livery. What if, they will have a OW livery later on with the same reg. What do you guys will think? Some say good, some say bad.... why?

For example:

I have noticed that some people are really upset and insist not to get both about the JL 772. It was produced under the standard and mushi king livery with the same reg. of JA8984.

B727

Regarding the SQ I don't quite understand why you have to get rude. It was only one example for me, where the production progress was already nearly complete and then the model got nixed by the airline. If Herpa would have known earlier what would have happened, they would have saved all the money that went into development of the model and done something else instead.
So now here the plane has changed its livery during the process of development. What to do? Change the model? Change the registration (and name)? Both would mean additional cost, which Herpa really needs to avoid right now.
Of course it is not the B747-400ER, it is a regular B747-400, but there isn't much difference in these planes visible in 1/500 scale.

Btw, I've been collecting for 17 years now and I've been a Wings Club member from day one, not that all that makes any difference in my daily appreciation of this nice hobby! I collect these planes because I like them.