Small Scale Military Headquarters

Recently, I met a couple of guys who have worked in the tooling industry for a while and they where able to give me access to a rapid prototyping machine. Due to issues with the stregnth on the plastic, my best option is to make a helicopter preferably an American one. I know the hind is also needed, but I think we may see one from JSI in the future. I have narrowed it down to these so far.

well there's an r/c osprey coming out that is bang on 1/18 and looks pretty good, so that's out. I couldn't choose between the chinook and stallion......both are equally important to me.

ch47 ohhhhhh

CH-47 although i have a personal connection. i flew in the ch47 many times when i was a Marine

AMERICAN_GRENADIER wrote:CH-47 although i have a personal connection. i flew in the ch47 many times when i was a Marine

me too in the Army....def a Chinook.

Hands down the Chinook. I have some pics I need to post of a 1/18 scale model that Boeing has that I drooled all over.

Shi#-hook for sure!! Made several jumps out of the tailgate during my airborne days. Would make a cool dio from the ceiling!

CW4USARMY wrote:Shi#-hook for sure!! Made several jumps out of the tailgate during my airborne days. Would make a cool dio from the ceiling!

CW4USARMY - were you at Bragg for those? I was there from 92-96 in an engineer unit. We jumped often out of the Chinooks, especially for Rough Terrain jumps - we had the only platoon in the Army on status for Rough Terrain jumps (mission to jump into rough areas with chainsaws and demo and create LZ/DZs for follow-on troops.)
Did you ever get to do the CH-54 SkyCrane before it was "officially retired?" It was a blast - they put a little "conex" type box under it and you just walk off the back of it. They told my unit we would be the last official unit to jump out of it in 1992. We probably weren't the last ones to do it though. I think they were only flown by Nat. Guard at the time and it was the last unit that had them flying.
I like the pavelow just as much though as far as models go.

aferguson wrote: I couldn't choose between the chinook and stallion......both are equally important to me.

Same with me. The closest thing we have on the market in a small scale for the Stallion is that damn Transformer Blackout haha. The Chinook would sell like crazy since it's been used since the 60's to today all around the world.

Oh, and I'd love a Skycrane with a people pod but I doubt it would see the light of day.

forcerecon85 wrote: Same with me. The closest thing we have on the market in a small scale for the Stallion is that damn Transformer Blackout haha.

I agree! There's just nothing out there for the Super Stallion minus the Academy super expensive model. At least the Blackout one was pretty accurate, for a transformer!

The CH-47 at least has the new New Ray model... though it's not 1/18... still more than the Super Stallion has. All the CH-53 has in the toy world is this funky colored early model that doesn't look that great.

CH-47 Chinook, and we can drive a vehicle in there too.

Hi All
Bring on the Super Stallion !!!!!!!! Then we can deck it out with some of Picklehaube's mini-guns !!!!!!! Now that would be real sweet.....
Put me down for 3 or 4 birds!!!!! Then bring on the CH-47 !!!!!!
Wow They would be huge !!!!! Anybody calculate the size yet ?????
Also we need full crew figures with them ...... Thats a must have too....... Thats my 2 cents worth ,,,make it 10 inflation
Dana (dcway)

Hey fellow Airborne! (pcoughran)

Yes, I was in the 82nd from 1992 to 1995. Was in the ADAR. My jumps out of the Chinook was up in the Wash DC area. I had a bud in the SF
and they used to do jumps with foreign embassy military personnel so was able to jump with the Germans, South African and Dutch soldiers.
Whenever they had a jump up there, I would go with.
Hell of a nice jump because you just dropped off the back as compared to the feeling of being blown out of a C-130 or 141! (you know the deal )

Doesn't New Ray or Motormax or someone make a CH-53, I swear I saw one being sold at an airshow. Seem to remember it being an odd blue green color scheme too.

Corey

The Ch-53 would be cool but I would love to have a Chi nook, I have ridden on them many times as well and have a fondness of them..since the would pick us up after a long road march. Many times it would pick us up after a heavy down pour and we would be dripping wet. upon walking up to the rear of it we would get Blown dry fro the exhaust hot but nice.

I voted Chinooky

Looks like I will be doing the Chinook. If there's any interest I include optional parts to make the ACH-47 "Guns a Go-Go". I will also do a Bell 47 as a side project printing off the detail parts along with the Chinook. Unfortunatly, they can only let me do one large helicopter.

i'm not clear.......are you offering these for sale or is this just a project for yourself? Your last post suggests that you are making these to sell.

aferguson wrote:i'm not clear.......are you offering these for sale or is this just a project for yourself? Your last post suggests that you are making these to sell.

Depending on how they come out I would like to offer them for sale.

Coreyeagle48 wrote:Doesn't New Ray or Motormax or someone make a CH-53, I swear I saw one being sold at an airshow. Seem to remember it being an odd blue green color scheme too.

Corey

Yes it is 1/72 scale and made/sold by Motormax.
Not a bad model but definantly needs some paint work.
T

I voted H-13 because it's a great little chopper that should be able to come out at a reasonable price point and could do fairly well.

Plus it's the only one that probably has a snowball's chance in hell of happening, if we're gonna be honest with ourselves.

60 VOTES !!!!!!!!



That is the most votes that I have ever seen on a forum poll

The Chinook is simply a chopper classic, no surprise that its way ahead in the polls.

chinook!