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Boeing 767-300 Moulds in 1:400 Scale

Updated: February 2025
The Boeing 767-300 was the inevitable stretch of the shorter series 200. Announced in 1983 the series 300 was a simple stretch whilst the 300ER provided a major range boost too. Initial sales were a little slow but in the late 1980s the 767-300 and 300ER became the default replacements for large fleets of DC-10s and Tristars especially with the US majors and Japanese airlines. The series 300F launched in 1993 kept the line going strong well into the 2000s even after the A330 had come to dominate this portion of the market. Delays with the 787 has seen 767 passenger aircraft continue to trickle off the line as stopgaps (especially with All Nippon) and the 300F continues to receive orders from the main package freight companies - FedEx and UPS. The series 300 and its variants accounts for about 2/3 of all 767s sold with 104 767-300s, 583 767-300ERs and 122 767-300Fs delivered with 70 of the latter still on order. For an aircraft that has frequently been out of the spotlight the 767 has proven an excellent workhorse and money maker.
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Phoenix 767-300s

Boeing 767-300 in 1:400 Scale & in Real Life

Unlike the 767-200 the 300/300ER have been regularly produced in 1/400 scale with well over 530 models made by 2025. Confusingly, there have been quite a few very similar looking moulds and lots of mould sharing too. Gemini in particular have been very odd with the type using 4 separate moulds in 6 separate phases. This has made doing this review quite challenging. In fact I don't think any other type or variant has this variety of different brands that have used it. The plus side of this is all the moulds are perfectly buyable - in fact mostly they are decent, but until 2024 it had been a long time since there had been a new casting. Here's the breakdown with moulds associated with manufacturer. Look at that spread - almost everyone ever in 1:400 has used a 767-300 at some point:
As for the real thing. Here's a British Airways example, in this case with Rolls-Royce engines, which are not the commonest engine choice:
This Delta example has General Electric CF6-80A2s:

B767-300 Moulds


DRAGON WINGS (2000-2009)
The Dragon 767-300 was released at about the same time as their series 200 and like its brother remains one of Dragon's best efforts. Much of what I said about the 200 is true with the 300 and this 767 still stands up to modern scrutiny as long as you don't mind the usual Dragon weakpoints - undercarriage, plastic wings and tail attachment. Having said that in this mould the undercarriage is actually pretty decent. Even so the Dragon series 300's nose just isn't as good as the 200. It often seems too chunky and round (a bit Snoopyish), but then again Dragon's poor cockpit windows sometimes are a factor in causing this look. I certainly don't recommend Dragon's 300s like I do the 200s, but am still happy to own the mould. Ironically, I think a lot of the older models look better than the newer versions.
GEMINI JETS 1A (2001-2009)
Gemini's 767-300 appeared just before their series 200 and again as you'd expect they share much the same pedigree, meaning it's a good moulding, albeit one with a seam around the wing/fuselage fairing. The vertical stabiliser is part of the fuselage on this mould so there are no join gaps like with the Dragon. For some reason the series 300 doesn't seem to have the same nosegear ground touching issues that the series 200 mould does. You should also be aware that many of the earliest versions (like the BA, TWA and Aeromexico below) have the classic original Gemini horizontal stabiliser seam on them. This was modified during 2002/2003 as part of the Gemini Jets II upgrades.

This version of the mould never featured rolling gears. Between 2001 and 2009 they produced 35 models and Schuco put out 3 clones. Gemini's usage of the 767 has been odd. They started with this mould, but then in 2004/05 for 10 releases used the Tucano Line mould below and then reverted back to this mould. They did something similar again later on with the modified version of this mould - read on.


WITTY 1 (2002-2008)
This mould has been used by several companies or brand names (Big Bird, Blue Angle and Aeroclassics), as it was originally made by and owned by Witty Wings who owned and ran the Jinbo factory that those brands worked from. It compares favourably to the Gemini and the Tucano mould and the main way to tell them apart easily is the landing gear. In fact, the nose on this mould is probably the best of the three. On this mould the nosegear especially is quite slight and the tyres appear too small. It's not a major issue by any means but the models do seem a little low to the ground. Quite a lot of models were produced using this mould, though most of them are hard to find nowadays. It ceased production in 2008 about the same time that big changes were ongoing at the Jinbo factory and Witty came out with a seamless mould.

TUCANO LINE (2002-2008)
Everyone has to start somewhere and Phoenix released its very first 1/400 scale models on a 767-300 mould, which was actually using the Tucano Line casting (as were all early Phoenix models). It actually looks a lot like the Gemini but the initial Skymark versions have a rather pointy nose (see the Usen example below). The undercarriage is also less detailed than the Gemini and the wing/fuselage fairing join more pointed at the front.
Later versions, like the Air Holland and United below, look good and are hard to distinguish from the original Gemini mould. As I said earlier however Gemini actually did use this mould themselves 10 times. I don't know why, but perhaps it was whilst they fixed up the horizontal stabiliser seam on their own mould. Either way in 2008 Phoenix replaced this mould anyway.

Blink and you'll miss them differences between the Gemini 1a and Tucano Line moulds - Gemini used both at times:
HERPA / HOGAN (2004-2016)
Historically, Herpa have only slipped out the odd model in 400 scale and must have spent way too much money making moulds they barely use. It seems they recoup some of this by mould sharing with Hogan who themselves really produce very little and when they do it's for the Japanese market. That is the case with this 767, which has been used by Herpa 4 times from 2004-2006 and 14 times by Hogan almost entirely for All Nippon and JAL examples. This mould actually doesn't look that bad compared to some of their stuff, however as with their 767-400 the apparent shortness of the undercarriage impacts it look. 
WITTY 2 (2007-2014)
By the time this mould was released the old Jinbo factory relationship has broken down. BigBird had stopped production and Aeroclassics had moved to their own factory. Witty Industrial continued and released models under the Aviation 400 and Witty Wings brands (for more on this history see: the first Aviation400 brand history). It is basically exactly the same as the first mould except there is no seam around the wing/fuselage joint. It has all the other features of the original mould (i.e. no rolling gears) and when Witty ended production it slipped into oblivion, as have most of their moulds.
PHOENIX (2008-IN USE)
Rather than just mend the seam on their old Tucano line mould as Witty did Phoenix produced a completely different 767-300 mould complete with rolling gears. This was during the 2006-2013 period when Phoenix was undertaking an intense burst of mould creation - for more on that see Phoenix Models History Pt​2: Phoenix Takes Flight. It has since been updated with aerials and there is a wingletted version as well. As described below Gemini actually used the wingletted version for about 5 years before they had a wingletted version of their own and reverted back to that. 
This mould has been used quite heavily, especially in the past 3 years and has become one of the most important 767 moulds. It is a decent mould, and one that I have reviewed at the site here before (see below), however as with all the pre-2010 767 moulds it is definitely showing its age:
GEMINI JETS / JC WINGS 1B (2010-IN USE)
JC Wings updated Gemini's original mould with rolling gears in 2009, however it wasn't until 2015 that they added aerials and produced a version which also had winglets on it. JC Wings began using this mould from 2009 with Gemini starting in 2010. Between 2011 and 2015 Gemini actually used the Phoenix mould if they needed to release a 767-300 with winglets. This means if you're getting a Gemini 767-300 from both the early 2000s or early 2010s it doesn't necessarily mean its using this mould lineage.
Much like the Phoenix 767 mould this version has been used a lot and until recently it was a toss up between these two moulds for a 767-300 purchase. While the Phoenix is seamless this GJ/JC version has a better wing/fuselage fairing. I have reviewed this mould here at the site previously - see:
As with the Phoenix mould although it is still in use in 2025 the advent of the newer 767 moulds makes this mould obsolete.
NG MODELS (2024)
NG announced their new 767 series moulds way back in October 2023 and sent me the samples the month afterwards, which I reviewed here at the site. They sent me updated versions in June 2024, the same month they announced the first models, and I also took a closer look at them. For those reviews see here:
As of Jan 2025 the number of releases has been low, and there has been some criticism of two elements - the cockpit / windowline printing being too high and the size and shape of the blended winglets. Outside of that the moulds are excellent.
PANDA MODELS (2025)
Panda Models had produced a 767-400 in 2023 and announced the series 300 in late 2024, but the first models didn't arrive until January 2025. So far the announced models have been mainly spread around the sub-brands VTJets (Air Sahara), C Models (Condor) and Creating Dreams Wings (China Southern, 2x China Eastern), with a further 3 models under Panda's main branding. The mould is outstanding, at least as good as the NG version and possibly slightly better. I reviewed the Air Sahara example just recently: