Inflight200 vs JC Wings 1/200 Asiana A321neo Unboxing and Review

In this video, I’ll review this Inflight Asiana A321neo and compare it with JC’s. Check    • JC Wings 1/200 Asiana A321neo Unboxing and...   and you can watch my previous review of this JC.

I’ll say the packaging of this Inflight is only fair. It uses the standard Inflight design, nothing impressive. But the rendering colours the fuselage in grey. That’s quite scary! I’ll only give a 7.

Inflight has this set of magnetic gear while JC’s doesn’t. And Inflight’s gear covers are very finely made. I’ll give an 8.

Many of us have an impression that Inflight’s moulds are always better than JC’s. Well, not this time! While JC’s nose is sharper and longer than that of the real A321, I’ll say Inflight’s is not correct either! It looks too round and lacks the iconic edge on both sides around the cockpit. But obviously, Inflight has made a much better vertical stabilizer. It also has better wings and sharklets. It even engraves the gear doors on the belly. JC’s doesn’t have this. Anyhow, I’ll only give a 7 for Inflight.

Inflight’s engines are more detailed and better made, but it has the same problem with JC’s: The shape of these two CFM LEAP-1A engines is not correct. The real thing is not a symmetrical circle from the front, but has a small bump on the port side. Also, the pylon should have tilted a bit upward. Both Inflight and JC fail to reproduce the LEAP-1A correctly. So, I’ll only give a 7.

I'm happy with the build. The wings and the horizontal stabilizers are very well attached. The engines' ground clearance is good. The gap at the vertical stabilizer attachment is acceptable. I'll give an 8 for build.

We have mentioned how JC and Gemini manage to capture the unique feature of the A320 family's landing gears in our previous Hawaiian and JC Asiana videos. All 3 gearlegs do not stand 90-degree vertically. In fact, the nosegear angles forward slightly, whereas the main gears angle slightly backward. Obviously, JC has done a very nice job, but Inflight fails in this. So, I’ll only give a 6.

Inflight’s details are better than JC’s. The small SATCOM at the back is an inserted part, whereas JC’s is only printed. And you can see the huge difference between the finishings of the two APU exhausts. So, I can only give details an 8.

In our review of JC’s, we’ve shown you the red and orange it applies are too similar, you can hardly tell they are actually two different colours. You can see Inflights got the colours correct. The red, orange, dark blue and purple are all very distinct. The grey stripe on the tail is in the correct position. And all stripes on the sharklets are in the correct positions too! So, I’ll give livery an 8.

However, this Asiana has a big painting issue here. We can see while JC has applied the correct beige colour on the fuselage, Inflight has wrongly used light grey here. Moreover, it has also painted the Asiana titles in a wrong light grey colour. It should be in space grey like JC’s. I can only give a 7.

I guess Inflight is well aware of the mould issue of this A321, and it’s just a matter of time for Inflight to make a revised version. So, I think these first batches of A321neo aren't worth a high score. I’ll only give a 6.

I’ll give this Inflight a total of 72 points in my ARAIG Index, which is lower than JC’s 74.

Do you agree with my review?

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