Herpa Miniature Model, Metal, Gray

Product Description

Aircraft also revolutionized Herpa, the Franconian manufacturer of model vehicles. Hardly a model aircraft that herpa does not replicate on a small scale. The model range has been continuously expanded to include aircraft types from the aviation of civil and military, as well as accessories for airport dioramas, miniature worlds or model railways. In 1:500 scale alone, more than 3,500 model aircraft have been created from over 100 different aircraft types and almost 600 airlines, from Lufthansa, Ryanair, Eurowings, AirFrance to Emirates. Like the Airbus A350, the airline favourite. It is hailed as a super plane and a technological advancement. The famous A380, which took off to its first flight in 2005, has also set another milestone in aviation history. With a capacity of up to 853 passengers, the A380 is the largest and heaviest passenger aircraft ever built. But not only the aircraft manufacturer Airbus can be found in the herpa range, but also many models from Boeing. herpa maps all of the manufacturer’s major aircraft at different scales, ranging from the 747 to the 787 “Dreamliner”. But variety is not the only success criterion herpa can look back on. The permanent quality increase of aircraft models and the increasing detail also speak for themselves. Delivered in February 1986, this KC-10 tanker was deployed five years later during Operation “Desert Storm” to liberate Kuwait. Below the cockpit is a chained alligator on the left side. Since there are numerous alligators in the swamps of Louisiana, the crew jokingly awarded this animal the role of the “yard dog”, i.e. the guard dog for the state. It is the first KC-10 to be produced in 1:500 with the “Shamu” camouflage scheme, named after a famous orca that has been performed for years at the Sea World water park in the United States.

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