OBJECTIVE
-This is your chance to vote for likes and dislikes of the manufacturer's effort to detail. I am just gonna hand you some closeups along with some real life images courtesy of www.airliners.net after 15 days of voting the superlative to detail will be announced. Right under the images I may add a few specks which can not be recognized from the image like rotating wheels etc.-Both are aircrafts B747-400's of German airline "Lufthansa". Since it is a quite popular airline I figures it would be of interest.
Exhibit A Exhibit B
Manufacturer : Herpa Manufacturer : Dragon Wings
Product Code: 560139 Product Code: 55156 and 55483 special X-mas version
Release Year : 2003-2008 Release Year : 2000-2002
Units made : Limited Units made : Limited
Scale : 1:400 Scale : 1:400
Registration : D-ABVW Registration : D-ABVF
LEFT: Herpa / RIGHT: Dragon Wings
LEFT: Dragon Wings / RIGHT: Herpa
Herpa Wings
Herpa Wings
GENERAL DETAILS
Herpa has a textured detail on the engine coils wings while Dragon is plain. There are more details on the cargo doors of Herpa, while Dragon tilting wing gears. Dragon's windows are finer outlined where herpa used a plain grey. Herpa's type font for the Lufthansa Lettering is more bold and looks closer to reality, yet Dragon managed to get the blue color better. Herpa again made a better tone of Lufthansa yellow. Same goes for the grey of the Star Alliance logo, where dragon made that too dark.The cockpit windows of Dragon look better, while Herpa has added more detail, like the top strobe lights etc
Take your close look and cast your votes in one of the three major Model Aircraft forums:
Click on your favorite forum to take you directly in the voting and discussion thread!
May the best wing.... win!
No comments:
Post a Comment