Small Scale Military Headquarters

Jim, any possibility of a future release 1/16 Panther or jagdpanther?

Since BBI seems to have the back catalog edge...F18 and Corsair for sure

I buy most my stuff from Aikens...great service and they can usually match prices

better now...hatch opens... just a little work and a new metal coupla... now Fritz can see the field of battle http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6898/p1010011it.jpg No need for the T34/85 to have opening hatches as Ivan went to war all buttoned up…only opened when abandoned or burning. Uploaded wit...

Merit used the WSN/Trumpeter mold for the Tiger 1...very different from the Henglong mold

Also Jim great research on the Tiger 1 livery...spot on!


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wow! ....nice new pic of dive flaps deployed on Merit site

S2 is going to be Midway, Yorktown. I thought for sure they'd do Enterprise. The S2 is the plane flown by Navy Cross holder Lt. Harold Bottomley... The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Harold Sydney Bottomley, Jr., United States Nav...

Will do a recon of a few Wallyworlds in SE Michigan this weekend

there seems to be hardly any retailers offering the Merit Dauntless for pre-order. I only know of Badcat and MTS. I wonder why? I called Sally at Aikens and pre-ordered...also saw on the Flying mule BOTH 1st and 2nd releases are up for preorder also just posted on Merit's site, the working features...

worked with Jackson on a couple of decals that add instant pop to the F-16

Flare and Chaff decal



AOA cover outline

New picture of the Dauntless up on the Merit site showing a bit of the Dive Brakes
http://www.merit-intl.com/month/mil-88002.html

Jim thank you for taking the time to ask for feedback…it has been a long time since we have seen sincere interest from a manufacturer as to what the Small Scale Military members think. I purchased both the T34/85 and the Tiger and feel they are both great bargains for the money. For the Tiger I, com...

Jnewboy, unfortunately, the 1/16 Schwimmwagon from Eduard is out of production...sucks because I wanted to pick up a couple more...paid $40.00 for the kit from Great Models about 4 years ago...here are some shots of one...hope they re-release it one day http://www.tanktraxx.com/gallery/thumbnails.ph...

Why Midway over Coral Sea?...Well, I did shift gears and pre-ordered this first livery... but if I had to only choose one, it would be Midway… for me, personally, one the reasons I collect is the history of the plane and secondly how much space I have left to display and store these big birds. I loo...

Matthew, Schwimmwagen skids scanned and emailed

Matthew, I have a 1/16 Schwimmwagen kit made by Edward...(looks great with my FOV 1/16 Tigers)...would love to see one in 1/18...I still have the instructions that are quite detailed and can scan/send them if you want.

SWEET job all the way around! very well done

Quite right Corey and well said... Guess I should rephrase...I hope Merit releases a Dauntless in the livery of Richard H. Best or Wade McClusky at Midway ... If it was a Dauntless from VB6 off the deck of the Enterprise it had twin 30 cal. If it only has one I can always make the twins no big deal....

looks good...but Midway planes carried the twin .30 cals.....
hope I am wrong but it looks like the protype is sporting a single .30 cal.

found the new merit tiger 1 under the tree...but best gift of all was that I got my wings...flew solo in a Cessna 172 just before Christmas

First picture of the Dauntless is up!
http://www.merit-intl.com/month/mil-88001.html

Thank you Jim, really appreciate your follow up and Merit’s support to the hobby

Any F-18 is welcome, missed the boat on that bird back in the 1/18 good old days....though for the 1/32 Phantom livery, I hope they do Robin Olds Scat XXVII

just saw this on the Merit site...
http://www.merit-intl.com/vendor/merit.html
looks good, however Zimmerit was applied to late model Tiger 1’s fighting at Kurland!
Lets hope (though most likely too late at this point) Merit adds Zimmerit before production.