It was 2019 that the NG and Lockness Tristar moulds debuted and you’d have thought that would mean an avalanche of L-1011s. Sadly the Lockness mould is rather poor and NG have had electroplating issues and a change of focus. The result are a bunch of L-1011s I won’t touch and a much smaller set of excellent NG releases than I’d hope for. So here’s a kick up the bottom to highlight how much there is left for NG to make.
Unless you are blind or hopelessly biased the NG Tristar is miles ahead of the competition, but sadly it has not been used as much as I had hoped it would be. There have been less than 30 standard length L-1011s made, which equates to less than 1 a month. In comparison NG has made 66 A330s and 96 Boeing 737-800s – both on moulds that debuted after the L-1011.
Since this list was written in 2022 NG have made 15 further Tristars, although several have been duplicates of previous releases. I’ve modified this list accordingly.
Prototypes
Delta
I’d like to think that one day we might see some more Delta 1011s from NG and although one has been made it featured the later position of the silver belly line not the earlier position as shown below.
TWA
Eastern
Air Canada
British Airways
There have been four BA Tristars so far but the version and livery combinations possible mean that at least these three Tristar 1s remain to be made:
Cathay
Air Lanka
Peruvians
US Charters
Late Euro Charters
Freighters
