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Originally posted by Skyline
I remember 20 years ago I bought a nice 1:500 (?) ANA L-1011 o/c diecast model in Japan. I don't remember if the detail is as good as today's product. However, I do remember it featured the best landing gear I've ever seen. The landing gears are retractable to the gear cabin in the same way on a real L-1011 (there's no door on it though). You don't need to take off the gears like you do on a DW model. I think the cost of it is much higher than just "insert" the gears to the holes.
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you are probably referring to the Tomica version that came in two different All-Nippon schemes, 70s and 80s?
Many 70s diecast planes - and some from the 60s (Tekno in particular) had scale-size, retractable landing gear, with and without doors. AeroMini, Lintoy, and Tomica in particular.
Ertl's 1990s jetliners (ie. Air Canada 767, Continental DC-9) had retractable landing gear but they were so unrealistic that modellers used to remove them and replace them with more realistic versions!