Halfway There: A 757-200 Wishlist

​NG Models have made some fantastic models but it is their 757 that still holds my greatest affection. Partly because it is such a beautiful aircraft and partly because, as a Gatwick spotter in the 90s, the 757 was the favourite aircraft of the diverse range of charter airlines that dominated much of the airport's traffic. I can’t thank NG enough for what they’ve made so far but with lots of competing moulds in the NG catalogue nowadays perhaps it’s time to focus back on what is left for their first mould.

So far NG Models have made an amazing 119 Boeing 757-200s under their own name. HYJL wings have made a further 15, Aeroclassics 18 and DreamAir 2. These 154 aircraft, within a couple of years, accounts for more than half of the 306 1:400 757-200s made. NG have been especially good at producing a range of hybrids, with the Republic/Northwest group a particular highlight.

Then there is the one-off Honeywell release, which was truly outstanding. Even so with over 1000 production aircraft it is easy to find more 757s to be made and what was supposed to be a short list has ballooned into over 90 models, of which I'd buy most!

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Great Britain

​Impressively 33 of their 757s have been G-reg versions giving the UK a focus in 1:400 it hasn’t ever received before over such a time period. Many of the most vital UK 757s have now been made – such as Monarch (original colours), Air 2000 (original colours), Air Europe, Britannia, Thomas Cook, Thomson and lots and lots of BA. There are still plenty of schemes to deliver though.

TUI Legacy

It was great to see the original Air 2000 scheme but it'd be lovely for them to be joined by the later 'Tapestry' and 'Starfish' liveries too:

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

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Thomas Cook Legacy

The major IEA/Airtours/MyTravel arm of UK charter business in the 90s has so far been ignored but featured some very nice 757s. Inter European in particular had one of my favourite schemes. All these airlines merged at various points and ended up in the Thomas Cook group:

Pedro Aragao [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Flying Colours was on the other Caledonian side of things but also ended up as part of the Thomas Cook group merging into JMC Air in 2000:

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

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Independents

Like Air 2000 with Monarch's original colours made there is still room for the later two schemes:

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Jonathan Palombo [CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

Balazs Pinter [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Dale Coleman [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Gary Watt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Gordon Zammit [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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Canada

Canada remains heavily under-represented in terms of 757s, which is a shame especially given its often strong links to UK charter companies.

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Nationair was a major visitor to the UK in the early 90s. The hybrid Ambassador scheme below is particularly interesting:

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

JetPix [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Pedro Aragao [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Paul Spikers [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]

Mark Tang [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Christian Volpati [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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Russia

Russia became quite an important destination for second-hand 757s during the early 2000s although a few made appearances earlier than that.

Maxim Maksimov [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Sergey Riabsev [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

E233renmei [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Pavel Adzhigildaev [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

aeroprints.com [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Dmitriy Pichugin [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Richard Vandervord [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

Alex Snow [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

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Europe

Pedro Aragao [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Ken Fielding/https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Paul Spikers [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]

Paul Spikers [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]

Pedro Aragao [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Jakkrit Prasertwit [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Alexander Jonsson [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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Africa

Balazs Pinter [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Aldo Bidini [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Aldo Bidini [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Peter Bakema [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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Oceania

Allen Zhao [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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Asia

Montague Smith [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Mark Tang [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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South America

Pawel Kierzkowski [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Ward Callens [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]

Andres Ramirez [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Torsten Maiwald [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

aeroprints.com [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

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Mexico

Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Jid Webb [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) undefined GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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USA

Aldo Bidini [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

JetPix [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Image courtesy of PhotoVault

There are of course lots of US airline Gemini Jets released 757s that could do with replacement also, however these are not top priority for myself:

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My Top 10

If it were my choice for my top 10 from these I'd be picking the following:

• Inter European
• Airtours
• MyTravel
• Air Belgium
• Hispania
• Nationair
• Royal Air Maroc
• Kiwi International
• Royal New Zealand Air Force
• America West Teamwork

How about you?