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Herpa 1:500 Malaysia Singapore Airlines De Havilland Comet IV
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Written by jkwan12345
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Sunday, 08 January 2012 |
Description
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Malaysian Airlines was founded in 1965 as joined airline of Malaysia and the now independent city state Singapore. Five Comet 4s were part of the initial inventory, among them the original of this limited edition novelty with the registration 9V-BAU. The Comet 4 was a major improvement on the Comet 3, with improved range, speed, and take-off weight.
DeHavilland Comet 4 9V-BAU operated for MSA in the mid 60's and was taken out of service in November 1969 and sold to Dan Air London as G-APDE
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Model Details
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Airline: Malaysia Singapore Airlines
Make: De Havilland
Model: Comet 4
Scale:
1:500
Part Number: n/a
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Model Review
| | Mould and Assembly: The Comet 4 nose is one of, I believe, the most attractive airliners that has been produced. The nose looks modern to this day, an in fact is quite reminiscent of the Boeing 787.
And that's one of the problems with this model - it doesn't have that elegant shape. The nose - it's too blunt, it doesn't come to a cone below the cockpit windows. The cockpit window looks misplaced too - too low.
Pros:
-The organic shape of the engines and the wing's fuel tanks are shaped very well.
-Landing gear looks good. It looks plain, but that's how it is in real life. So it looks realistic.
-For such a small model, the tail planes are inserted nicely and crisply.
Cons:
-As mentioned, the nose betrays the model. The Comet IV is a very good looking aircraft, and this model simply is not.
-The wing seam - the wing is not inserted.
-Nose landing gear wheels are a touch too large.
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Livery: Malaysia Singapore Airlines is the predecessor to two of the world's best airlines - Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines. You can see some of Singapore Airlines' current livery in this MSA livery.
I will first mention the biggest flaw: The lower half of the fuselage and the wings, which are painted in a glitzy-sparkly silver, should be polished metal. Honestly, there is no paint substitute for polished metal. It simply doesn't look nearly as great because they chose to paint it sparkly silver.
As for the colors: While I have scoured the web for some quality photos of the MSA airlines colors on the Comet IV, all photos have had color fading. However, comparing to other aircraft with the livery, I still believe that the yellow that Herpa uses is too deep -It's too "ochre" and should be a fainter, more pale yellow.
But otherwise, placement is spot on. And even the fuel tanks in the wing are painted nicely - They have the small black tip that's painted just like the nose. And the horizontal stabilizers have their edges painted black too.
Details: Details - There aren't that many on this aircraft. Some nice ones: The Malaysia and Singapore flags near the nose, the printing above the door, the registration on both the fuselage and the wings...and that's about it. But there really weren't that many visible details on the actual aircraft, like overawing exits or "cut out here" lines that are on current aircraft.
I do wish that Herpa would have painted the engine exhaust two tones, though. Otherwise, This is average for details.
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Pluses
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Engines and fuel tanks nicely moulded
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Minuses
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wing seam is evident
Livery's yellow is too intense - needs to be more pale.
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Photos
Editor review: Small unique livery on a unique plane, but mould's
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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| Overall rating |
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6.3 |
| Mould and Assembly
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4.0 |
| Livery
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6.0 |
| Details
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8.0 |
| Overall Impression |
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7.0 |
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