My PIA A310-200 1:500 scale in 1990s livery.

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:37 am

I posted these pics. upon a user's request. (picture quality is great but if anyone can help resize it that would be great

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PIA10141 · Post by **PIA10141** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:52 am

wow, what happened to the a/c looks in very bad shape....

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:01 am

PIA10141 wrote:wow, what happened to the a/c looks in very bad shape....

i got it as far back as 1993 from a duty free shop in columbo. And you know shabak planes are not very good quality.
Good thing i stopped buying small planes. The smallest i buy from now on is 1:400 nothing smaller.

PIA10141 · Post by **PIA10141** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:03 am

What is the material of this plane?? looks like foam?

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:16 am

PIA10141 wrote:What is the material of this plane?? looks like foam?

It's a metal diecast plane as you can see, but the livery has suffered over the years as the poor plane has been boxed during many moves. If this was another brand, i doubt it would have suffered this badly. I have to agree Schabak sux at size & painting quality

You'll also notice the wingtips are a bit dented.

raihans · Post by **raihans** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:45 am

No offense but it seems that PIA's current position is like this model has

anyhow, thanks for sharing the pics of the model

samee380 · Post by **samee380** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:21 am

It is A310-300, scale 1.600

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:54 am

samee380 wrote:It is A310-300, scale 1.500.

though you might be right about the scale, that's a A310-200. I had an emirates A310-300 of the same scale and it looks different from this.

Here's a pic of an A310-200 scale model:
http://www.longprosper.com/webdocs/imag ... 10-300.jpg

PIAC · Post by **PIAC** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:57 am

samee380 wrote:It is A310-300, scale 1.500.

How can this model be in 1:500? The set with 4 aircrafts was in 1:600 and that was B742 B733 A300 A310?

samee380 · Post by **samee380** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:14 am

sorry my typo mistake it is scale 1/600

karachiwala · Post by **karachiwala** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:10 am

man, ur model looks like as if it was stored at Mojave desert for a long, long time.

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:49 pm

For the sake of information, all PIA Airbus A310s are A310-300.

A310-200s were built without wingtip fence whereas all A310-300s have wingtip fence. Photos posted by Nadir also show the aircraft model with wingtip fence so it's A310-300.

Nadir Ali wrote:though you might be right about the scale, that's a A310-200. I had an emirates A310-300 of the same scale and it looks different from this.

Aircraft models specially toy-like models like this PIA A310 model should never be compared with dimension/size of real aircraft.

A310-200 and A310-300 are nearly 100% identical aircraft from outside. The visible external difference between A310-200 and A310-300 is wingtip fence on all A310-300 models.

Nadir Ali wrote:Here's a pic of an A310-200 scale model:
http://www.longprosper.com/webdocs/imag ... 10-300.jpg

Photo link shows Air Transat A310-300 not -200.

Abbas

H Khan · Post by **H Khan** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:14 pm

Now, this aircraft went through some really serious hailstorm.

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:59 am

Abbas Ali wrote:For the sake of information, all PIA Airbus A310s are A310-300.

A310-200s were built without wingtip fence whereas all A310-300s have wingtip fence. Photos posted by Nadir also show the aircraft model with wingtip fence so it's A310-300.

Aircraft models specially toy-like models like this PIA A310 model should never be compared with dimension/size of real aircraft.

Nope. The other A310s i compared them to were of Emirates of the same brand and the same scale. yet their wingtips and fusalage seemed different from this one. When I'm in Karachi again, I'll post a pic of my Emirates planes to make a comparison. Maybe those ones are A310-200s then.

A310-200 and A310-300 are nearly 100% identical aircraft from outside. The visible external difference between A310-200 and A310-300 is wingtip fence on all A310-300 models.

like the same differences then between 777-300 and 777-300ER?

Photo link shows Air Transat A310-300 not -200.

Abbas

I found that picture when googling for Air transat A310-200s and that's the result i got.

ConnieMan · Post by **ConnieMan** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:06 am

Nadir,

Yaar Abbas is right between the difference in A310-200 and -300. It's very settle but it's there.

I had same model too years ago, i sold it to a fellow on here from NYC area, he never sent funds for it either, so after couple of emails sent to him i wrote the deal off and considered that a gift to him...

Oh change the title to 1/600 Scale as all Shabaks were 1/600 scale diecast models.