Scott Garard

I understand your point, but to be fair, that's the artist's blunder - not the manufacturer. I will be designing an accurate decal for this kit for Hawkeye Models Australia.

A "Sink the Bismarck" battleship set of some kind, I reckon...

A few years ago, Airbus standardised their wing & stabiliser colour for all their models to be "Matterhorn White", which is actually a very, very pale grey. It's now widely used as it contains anti-corrosion properties - no need for a seperate corogard coating, thus saving some weight. You can get spray-cans from Caterpillar: https://parts.cat.com/en/catcorp/product/590-0225 Cheers!

Essentially, The racing version uses only one seat (a fire extinguisher in place of the second seat), and different suspension uprights for a lower stance (parts F10, F11, F12 F13). The rally version has two seats and higher stance uprights (parts H10, H11, H12 H13). Also, the red & white Motul version notes photoetch parts for the rear wheel mudflaps. You can examine the instructions for each here: Racing: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10713353 Rothmans rally: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10876996 Motul rally: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10531552 Cheers!

Still waiting for the Rover SD1 and Alfa Romeo 155 they announced 3 years ago as well... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwtkDCjWYAI7A6j?format=jpg&name=small

I remember having a small-scale kit back in 1980. It was made by someone like Arai or Crown. P.S. Just found it! - 1/35 scale by Crown. One for sale here on this French site (at collector's price): https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/collection/3120300591 Also, Neo made a 1/43 diecast. One for sale here on Australian site: https://modelcarstoo.com/product/honda-prelude/ Cheers!

The ALA aircraft depicted says its a -400, but the rego is from a -500. http://www.bac1-11jet.co.uk/bac1-11jet.co.uk Argentina.htm

See if you can acquire a Revell A320NEO or A321NEO kit. They contain 3 different dome fairings on sprue G. See here on the left side of photo: HTH. Cheers!

Jabba, I'm a little late to the conversation, but this makes it crystal clear: Cheers!

It's a re-pop of an original Minicraft kit. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/minicraft-model-kits-11635-cessna-172--256028 Scroll down to see the product timeline.

Hey Homebee! Can you edit the thread title to state "X-Scale" instead of "Eastern Express"?

Aircraft is D-IOSA. There are no numbers in german registrations of that era.

Third seat is used by check captains and training flight crew. https://www.planespotters.net/photo/539605/ep-ibb-iran-air-airbus-a300b4-605r

Michael, After researching high-and-low, I've coddled together the graphic below. All variants had a common forward, centre and rear fuselage - they just had different length barrels between them (green sections). Hope this is helpful... Cheers!

And here's a little help from me too... Hope this helps!