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Old 07-13-2012, 10:38 AM   #1
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A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

Hi friends. After many years of collecting (16 years), i want to do a tribute to what i consider the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.
We can find defects and mistakes also the their models but, undoubdetly, Star Jets models were (and are) the state-of-the-art of 1:500 scale collection! If you look at the details of the fuselage, at the perfect moulds of airplanes as the A320/321, the MD-80 (really perfect, also the landing gear) and the MD-11, at the different liveries from all over the World (Air Tahiti Nui A340-300, for example), you can not disagree with me; maybe manufacturers as Inflight500 and Sky500 have nice models, but what Star Jets has produced until its demise is something of unrepeatable. Of course Star Jets can't compete with Herpa variety, but only because it is not more existing since many years: i remember when Star Jets produced 5/6 models bimonthly, and they were MODELS, they were MINIATURES worthy of the name! I was happy and proud to spent my money for that airplanes, a pleasure for the eyes of each collectors, even the most demanding.
I wonder how many and which models it would have produced up to now: some exotic liveries, some charter airlines (Thomas Cook and V-Bird A320 are Star Jets models), more perfect MD-11's and, why not, new moulds as the A330-200, the B767-200 and -300, the Tu-154...who knows.
By the way, let me finish to check the photos and...this wonderful through the perfection can start!
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Old 07-13-2012, 10:56 AM   #2
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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

Let me start with Alitalia B777-200 I-DISA "Taormina":























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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

Look at the mould of this Eastern Air Lines L-1011:

















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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

Starjets have made some wonderful models with the perfect moulds, but if im going to be honest, the best L-1011 mould belongs to IF500. But the MD-11... That's a simply great mould.
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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

Great thread, my friend! I like very much Star Jets too and its demise was a blow to our scale!
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Starjets have made some wonderful models with the perfect moulds, but if im going to be honest, the best L-1011 mould belongs to IF500. But the MD-11... That's a simply great mould.
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Great thread, my friend! I like very much Star Jets too and its demise was a blow to our scale!
Thanks my friends. Of course i will post photos of all the Star Jets airplanes, often very detailed, a long thread for a great tribute to the best manufacturer ever existed in 1:500 scale!
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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

Thanks for this very interesting thread, Charter. Great idea, excellent pictures and original layout with photos of the aircraft followed by those of the models. Of course, I look forward to the pictures of 747 models. I own almost all of Starjets 747s. I think they are of excellent quality.
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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

The real success of Starjets is it made Herpa pick up their game and I think that's why it is important that we have alternatives to Herpa as they will rest on their laurels if they don't have competitors
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Re: A tribute to the best manufacturer of 1:500 scale: Star Jets.

Very nice photos Charter. Starjets really pushed the envelope during their (sadly) short existence. Who knows what they could have achieved now.
And what happened to their moulds ? Most of them could still compete with Herpa today.
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The moulds en detail were very good, as i see on my KL 739, 763 and 744
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