My latest Lufthansa cutaway-purchase

727pilot · 08-10-2012, 05:34 AM

Follow the link to see my new pride & joy!

My Lufthansa model-collection

D-AIHK · 08-11-2012, 03:54 AM

Congratulations on your latest addition... Was this the one from eBay or Aviationmodels-online?

MSR777 · 08-11-2012, 08:07 AM

Thats very nice, and in such good condition too, well done.

Air Jamaica DC 9 · 08-11-2012, 10:07 AM

Beeaauuutifullll!!! To have a Westway cutaway in such excellent condition after 40 yeasr is a treat. I too am so lucky with my westway Qantas 747 cutaway. Dont trade that for anything dude!!

727pilot · 08-11-2012, 03:30 PM

Thanks guys! Yes, I'm very glad to have this 747 in my Lufthansa-collection - especially with the original wooden shipping-crate!

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Originally Posted by D-AIHK

Congratulations on your latest addition... Was this the one from eBay or Aviationmodels-online?

That's quite a story: I bought the 747 from an arts-dealer in Munich. He snapped it up on German eBay from a seller near Cologne and had the jet-engines fixed. Then he put the model up for sale on "aviationmodels-online.com". The price I paid was astronomical (at least for me...) - but you won't believe what happened two weeks later: The arts-dealer e-mailed me asking whether I would sell him the 747 back for a much higher price...

I guess he got some better offers - but of course I'll never part with it.

I'm so happy to have this cutaway - even if it's the first model in my collection that has been partially restored. That was something I tried to avoid up to now. But with rare things like these you can't be to choosy!

D-AIHK · 08-11-2012, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by 727pilot

Thanks guys! Yes, I'm very glad to have this 747 in my Lufthansa-collection - especially with the original wooden shipping-crate!

That's quite a story: I bought the 747 from an arts-dealer in Munich. He snapped it up on German eBay from a seller near Cologne and had the jet-engines fixed. Then he put the model up for sale on "aviationmodels-online.com". The price I paid was astronomical (at least for me...) - but you won't believe what happened two weeks later: The arts-dealer e-mailed me asking whether I would sell him the 747 back for a much higher price...

I guess he got some better offers - but of course I'll never part with it.

I'm so happy to have this cutaway - even if it's the first model in my collection that has been partially restored. That was something I tried to avoid up to now. But with rare things like these you can't be to choosy!

I too saw the model on Germany eBay and when I then saw it listed on Peter's website I thought the buyer must have touched it up very quickly.

None the less, it's an exceptional model and extremely rare to have it with the original crate. Expensive as it maybe, it is certainly a piece of history and worth every cent.

DINO · 08-11-2012, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 727pilot

Thanks guys! Yes, I'm very glad to have this 747 in my Lufthansa-collection - especially with the original wooden shipping-crate!

That's quite a story: I bought the 747 from an arts-dealer in Munich. He snapped it up on German eBay from a seller near Cologne and had the jet-engines fixed. Then he put the model up for sale on "aviationmodels-online.com". The price I paid was astronomical (at least for me...) - but you won't believe what happened two weeks later: The arts-dealer e-mailed me asking whether I would sell him the 747 back for a much higher price...

I guess he got some better offers - but of course I'll never part with it.

I'm so happy to have this cutaway - even if it's the first model in my collection that has been partially restored. That was something I tried to avoid up to now. But with rare things like these you can't be to choosy!

Congrats..... enjoy.

swisshansa10 · 08-12-2012, 12:43 AM

so you are the reason, why the auction was called off pre-maturely. I am sure you made an offer that the seller could not resist.

The airplane guy · 08-12-2012, 05:06 AM

Very nice model ! You have a lot of reasons to be proud of it !

Santos · 08-12-2012, 08:47 AM

amazing model, congratulations.

Air Jamaica DC 9 · 08-12-2012, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by 727pilot

Thanks guys! Yes, I'm very glad to have this 747 in my Lufthansa-collection - especially with the original wooden shipping-crate!

That's quite a story: I bought the 747 from an arts-dealer in Munich. He snapped it up on German eBay from a seller near Cologne and had the jet-engines fixed. Then he put the model up for sale on "aviationmodels-online.com". The price I paid was astronomical (at least for me...) - but you won't believe what happened two weeks later: The arts-dealer e-mailed me asking whether I would sell him the 747 back for a much higher price...

I guess he got some better offers - but of course I'll never part with it.

I'm so happy to have this cutaway - even if it's the first model in my collection that has been partially restored. That was something I tried to avoid up to now. But with rare things like these you can't be to choosy!

Beautiful model, would look really nice beside an inflight Pan Am billboard model

Pilot_Flying · 08-13-2012, 04:40 AM

Awesome model! Congratulations!

B2707300SST · 08-16-2012, 02:34 PM

you snooze~ you lose! Congrats on your vintage gold.

Retroguy · 08-17-2012, 07:45 AM

wunderbar, wirchklich wunderbar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a great find !!!!!!!!

Congratulations on such an amazing piece !!!!!!!
I'm writing Santa this Christmas for one of these...

ralph morton · 08-18-2012, 05:31 AM

A superb model. Many is the time in the 70s that I admired the same model in the Lufthansa offices in Piccadilly in London before trying to scrounge pamphlets and pictures of the airliners from the very helpful staff. Of all the London offices Lufthansa was always the most generous and I still have some of the brochures and postcards from those years, especially the city guide pamphlets which covered most of the major cities in the world. I think my father liked chatting to the ladies behind the counter as well.

I do have a scruffy unrestored version of the BOAC 747 which I bought in 1998 or so from Jeff Noble at the East Midlands Airport show. It is missing the wings (just as well as it lives in a cardboard boax against the wall in my bedroom!). I have left it as I found it but it is still a thing of great joy. I envy you having the space to display yours.

Next to BOAC Lufthansa and Pan Am were my favourite airline colours as a kid, and still are. TWA and BEA came in 4th and 5th. The new white fuselage look for LH and Pan Am never grabbed me.

All the best
Ralph

Retroguy · 08-18-2012, 05:57 AM

Ralph, if the model is missing the wings, why not try and have it on display on a wall, like a painting, it would look great and you could at least admire her all the time.and we'd love pictures too, so take the girl out of the box and show her off then

727pilot · 08-19-2012, 09:22 AM

Thanks again for all your kind words concerning the model! But there is something I'd like to make clear...

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Originally Posted by swisshansa10

so you are the reason, why the auction was called off pre-maturely. I am sure you made an offer that the seller could not resist.

No, I'm not the person responsible for the early end of the auction. As I already explained in this thread I bought the 747 from an arts-dealer in Munich. He was the guy who snapped the model up from eBay and later sold it to me.

727pilot · 08-19-2012, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ralph morton

Of all the London offices Lufthansa was always the most generous and I still have some of the brochures and postcards from those years, especially the city guide pamphlets which covered most of the major cities in the world. I think my father liked chatting to the ladies behind the counter as well.

Now that is a nice story - especially the part with the nice Lufthansa-ladies!

Retroguy · 08-19-2012, 10:34 AM

I can confirm this as well...while walking down the Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon in my youth, Lufthansa was always the most generous one, they gave me postcards, brochures, panflets, pens and leather notebooks, which I still keep today.South african Airways offered me once a huge print of an SP inflight, signed by the author.TWA, Aeroflot, Iberia Sabena and Varig were always very reserved, andgave me that funny look...oh well, great times !!!!!!!!!!!!