Re: So...what's next for Merit?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 4:45 pm
If it is the same company I think Merit got the Dauntless from... they were working on a 1:18 B-17 as well...!
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Now that would be cool!Jason of Admiral Toys wrote:If it is the same company I think Merit got the Dauntless from... they were working on a 1:18 B-17 as well...!
I second that. But I would want the ordinance.Long Time Luker wrote:I know it'd be expensive. And I know it's been requested to death, but I'd really like an A-10. I don't even need all the pods and/or armament, just the plane. I started active duty at RAF Bentwaters in the 80's, and at the time we were the largest tactical fighter wing in the world with 110 A-10's on station. Love those planes, and in later years those ugly hogs pulled my butt out of some nasty spots in Afghanistan.
There'd be a couple of paint schemes they could do, old NATO green and the current gray, perhaps with sharks teeth.
Maybe someone from Merit could come on and ballpark a cost for us?
Sitting side by side, a B-17 is just a bit bigger than a F-14. If folks were going to accomodate an F-14, I don't think they'd have a issue with a B-17.snake wrote:1/18 B-17 would be ridiculously huge.
Don't think they would sell many at all.
I certainly wouldn't buy one.
Think a Mosquito, B-25, or F-15 is as big as 1/18 should go.