One of the primary aims of Yesterday’s Airlines is to help educate collectors, giving them the information they need to make decisions they are happy with. Since the level of printing and paint quality between brands is so close it is the mould being used by that particular manufacturer for the aircraft type that is the most important factor in quality. Almost everyone has good and not so good moulds and often there is very strong competition between brands for certain aircraft types.
It is regularly asked ‘who has the best X’ and often there is a general consensus in the hobby as to the answer, however the answers to these questions are usually unsupported by evidence. If someone asks what is the best 777-300 mould for example it’d be useful to a) know what ones exist and b) to actually look at a proper comparison.
This area of the website aims to bring together all the supporting material I have created to decide which moulds are the best for the most important 400 scale aircraft. This site contains four main areas of content to aid decision making and I will link to those were appropriate. They are:
Best Moulds
There are lots of different aircraft types and available moulds so for ease of reading I’ve created separate pages for each of the major aircraft manufacturers. Typically, it is the extant manufacturers producing the best models, but there are still examples where older long extinct brands retain the best mould for an aircraft type. Read on to see who I think has the best moulds and why:
