Small Scale Military Headquarters

MCalamari & scobot, thanks for your input. So I'm not alone. It seems sacrilege to take a knife or hacksaw to the strut. The aircraft appears to be secure with the strut hanging loose (unlike my old corrected scale Electronic X-Wing - which suffered from permanent nose dive when the front landing ge...

We are actually left with two companies producing 1:18 aircraft: BBI and JSI. I forgot about JSI. BBI I know from 1/6 scale figures - I used to collect Dragon and BBI and have a big collection of them. I had no problems with mine, just pop the strut into the nose gear from the side bananapirate, if...

aae83, thanks for that link. Looking at the photograph of the real ME262 I can see that the nose wheel assembly should be angled forwards. On my model I can only pull the assembly and hatch forward just enough so that it stands vertical. This is the reason that the supporting strut won't fit into th...

What...? I buy one aircraft and Admiral Toys goes bust?

I sent them an email earlier about the missing Swastikas (the company I bought the aircraft from in the UK said there were no decals in any of the boxes), and asked about the nose wheel strut.

Matt

I've just received an Admiral ME262 White 8 and wanted to know if anybody else has had a problem with the nose wheel strut. On mine the strut is too long to slot into the notch above the wheel. I'm afraid to pull the wheel too far forward in case something breaks. It looks as though the only safe wa...