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The first time I ever saw the Southwest Airlines Shamu special color scheme I was very little. 5 or 6 years old. I saw it on a video my parents bought me about planes. One of those "learning" vide…

The first time I ever saw the Southwest Airlines Shamu special color scheme I was very little. 5 or 6 years old. I saw it on a video my parents bought me about planes. One of those "learning" videos that teaches kids about things. They were talking about Southwest being the official airline of Seaworld and showed how they brought penguins onboard. From that day I always wanted to see one of the three Shamu's in person.

Over the next 17 years I saw every single Southwest…

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Added by Bryce Rea on April 24, 2012 at 1:24pm — 3 Comments

New Arrivals and Preorder news at www.DiecastAirplane.com

New Arrivals and Preorder News from www.DiecastAirplane.com

April 24, 2012

New items have arrived from Dragon Wings, Dragon Armor, JetX, Just Planes DVDs, and F-Toys.

New Preorder items have been announced from Witty Wings and Aviation 200

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on April 24, 2012 at 8:31am — No Comments

Kepford's own F4U-1A Corsair "white 29"

Hello, my friends!

Though room, economical situation and wife's will try together to stop my collector fever, I succeeded in ordering by Antics UK Ltd the 1st HM 1/48 F4U-1A diecast model (HM-HA8201):

Ira Kepford's own "white 29" Corsair, belonging to VF 17 "Jolly Roger", on who he totalized 16…

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Added by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on April 21, 2012 at 6:30am — No Comments

Inflight 200 more news for fall release, plus Falcon Models new items

Inflight 200 and JetX Preorder News www.diecastairplane.com April 18, 2012 From inFlight new 777-200 tooling on two great liveries! and from Falcon models more models in this popular series.
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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on April 18, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Inflight 200 and JetX prerelease news

Inflight 200 and JetX Preorder News www.diecastairplane.com April 16, 2012 Check out the upcoming TWA 747SP 1:200 scale from InFlight
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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on April 16, 2012 at 1:07pm — No Comments

Hobby Master August Release Models, and more

Hobby Master August Preorder News and more at www.DiecastAirplane.com

April 10, 2012

Here are the Hobby Master August release items, Airplanes and Armour. The F-16 Thunderbirds will be a popular releases. Also, they have one new Armour tooling of a Comet Mk.I…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on April 10, 2012 at 10:21am — No Comments

Collection Update April 9, 2012

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Added by Bryce Rea on April 9, 2012 at 1:57pm — 1 Comment

GeminiJets April Release News and Herpa Fall Release Models

GeminiJets and Herpa Preorder News at www.DiecastAirplane.com

Here is a great line up of new items coming from GeminiJets and Herpa. The 1:200 Aerosur 747 is a great livery, and the 1:400 scale FedEx Shorts 360is interesting addition to the FedEx lineup for collectors. These will arrive in late…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on April 9, 2012 at 11:22am — No Comments

New to 1:200 Collecting? - Some Things To Help!

GeminiJets - Probably the best known 1:200 manufacturer. Their models are all made of diecast metal. They are also probably the most reliable in "monthly" releases. They do seem to have some quality control issues from time to time, but my personal experience with Gemini over the years has been pretty…

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Added by Bryce Rea on April 6, 2012 at 10:30pm — 4 Comments

Biggest Airliners Sale Ever at www.DiecastAirplane.com

Biggest Airliner Sale Ever

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on April 5, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

JC Wings, and InFlight 400 Preorders: HobbyMaster and InFlight 200 New arrivals

Diecast Airplane News from www.DiecastAirplane.com

April2, 2012

Preorder News: Here is the list of late April release models coming from JC wings in 1:200 and 1:400. Save 10% off the sale price of JC Wings models with coupon code APRILSALE.

We are also…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on April 2, 2012 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Phoenix Models April Release News at www.DiecastAirplane.com

Phoenix Diecast Airliner News at www.DiecastAirplane.com

March 29, 2012

Phoenix Models announces their April Delivery Models (mostly 400 scale, but a couple of 200 scale). We already have several requests for the ANA 747 and JAL 787 so it looks like these are the hottest models…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on March 29, 2012 at 10:08am — No Comments

A Pot Pourri of interesting preorder planes and armor at www.DiecastAirplane.com

Preorder Collector Model News at www.DiecastAirplane.com

March 28, 2012

We have quite an assortment of preorder models to announce today.

Dragon Wings adds a couple of items to their space line.

Merit announces another…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on March 28, 2012 at 10:26am — No Comments

Sale! Dragon Wings and Cyber Hobby 1:72 Scale Warbird Closeout.

Dragon Wings and Cyber Hobby Warbird Sale

at www.DiecastAirplane.com

March 26, 2012

Dragon Wings and Cyber Hobby both are pretty much out of the 1:72 Warbird market, at least for the time being. They made great products for many years, but Hobby Master seems to be the new leader…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on March 26, 2012 at 10:29am — No Comments

Herpa 1:200 and 1:500 arrivals at www.diecastairplane.com

Herpa Aircraft Arrivals at www.DiecastAirplane.com

March 21, 2012

The following Herpa models are now in stock.

Save an additional 10% on Aviation 200 and Texaco models below

with discount coupon code SAVEINMARCH.

Free shipping on orders…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on March 21, 2012 at 11:09am — No Comments

Crossing Into Plastic

I have strongly embraced my all metal model collection and have periodically wondered about the what if's. In this case, what if I was to begin collecting plastic models in 1/200?

Right now, the idea seems strange, collecting strictly die-cast metal models. I have despised the plastic models and cringe at the fact of receiving a few metal models with plastic vertical and horizontal stabilizers.... I am on the verge of making my first purchase of plastic 1/200 models.

I used…

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Added by Mikeindigokiloecho on March 20, 2012 at 1:00pm — 6 Comments

Hobby Master and Inflight Preorder news. New JetX arrivals

Airplane Collector News from www.DiecastAirplane.com

March 20, 2012

Hobby Master has announced a very interesting model. They are doing an American Airlines livery for there first wide body mold. This MD-11 is going to have a weighted plastic fuselage and diecast metal wings. It sounds…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on March 20, 2012 at 9:45am — No Comments

Hobby Master Full July Preorder List, plus more items from Inflight 200, Gulliver and Sky Guardians

Diecast Airplane Preorder News from www.DiecastAirplane.com

March 16, 2012

Here is a nice selection of new planes to keep you entertained over the weekend. All models on this list are preorder. Witty Sky Guardians has announced a new Sea Vixen for July release. The…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on March 16, 2012 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Preorder News : 1/18 scale F-18C, more from Sky Guardians, Hobby Master, and Falcon Models

Preorder News at www.DiecastAirplane.com

March 12, 2012

Blue Box has finally officially annouced the upcoming F-18C in 1:18 scale. We have lots of preproducion detailed images on the website and it looks to be a spectacular item to go with the F-14 from merit and…

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Added by DiecastAirplane.com on March 12, 2012 at 1:26pm — No Comments