Impressive @G650 ! Most impressive!

What is your rarest and most valuable 1:400 model?

For me it would be this Gemini Jets KLM MD11 PH-KCB, worth about $250.

Dang

For plastic??

My rarest is Gemini200 British Airways Concorde or Inflight200 Northwest/KLM DC-10-30

I’m surprised you paid $250 for a 1:400 scale model.

Mine was my $80 Beluga XL by NG models

Most expensive overall was a $230 CF-18 wooden model with no exact scale given

Hard to pinpoint my rarest

I would have to double check

@KV

Most advanced man portable self contained small scale rocket Ground Control Station ever

Well at least I assume

That's cool

Those are worth $250? Dang

A350-900

@G650 I actually paid retail for the KLM back in 2014, but I have been offered the equivalent of $300 in models by KLM collectors for the model as apparently I is really hard to find one for sale and the least sold of all 1:400 KLM MD11 models. That NG Baluga is nice, we should chat about models sometimes as it is fun to do so, and I make a ton of YouTube videos on the topic.

@mangus.aviation It is actually solid metal, a zinc compound I believe.

@KV

Sounds good, I’ll dm you

https://youtu.be/zeQTrWU1RlU

Additive manufacturing is revolutionizing the aerospace industry

You can print geometries of superalloys that would be impossible to CNC or cast

@ricardo__ I love relatively and have been following their progress. Honestly more than their engines, it's the fact they want to 3D print the entire rocket

And yes 3D printing is amazing, I think it has potential of eventually opting out CNC, especially looking at how many 3D printed parts Space X and RocketLab are using succesfully.

I saw a Lufthansa A350-900 but it was in the other paint scheme

Sadly I don't have acess to a SLS printer, so I'm just working on using consumer FDM printers for small scaled rocketry

The privatization of space travel is a great idea because the companies are ahead of NASA and government-funded programs by a lot.

well with NASA's help

more like get all the politics from slowing R & D and let them do the work

and they end up doing it so much better

Honestly, if we kept funding after the Apollo program, we might be exploring the outer solar system by now and have active transit between Earth, Mars, and the Moon.

Maybe, and yes the Saturn V was literally over built to go to Mars

But I prefer Space X getting us there first, rather than NASA

Also Apollo kinda did so many sketchy things that comprised saftey to save time

It would've been a matter of time before something went bad. Hoenstley they were lucky on 13 to survive, and all the other flights could've ended badly too

I think privatization of space flight is good but they do have different agendas then an organization like NASA