Small Scale Military Headquarters

Hi everyone! My name is Tom, and I am one of the modelers at SkyWorksToys, and also double as the marketing manger. My goal is to review all of the posts and see if I can help anyone out. I will also monitor the email from the SkyWorksToys website and answer any questions that may come up. Jack is crazy busy right now with all of his new projects, so I am going to help out here. Just an update for everyone, the landing gear is here, and has shipped to the people who will get it to you! Jack is also working on a really cool F-14 engine cowling for the upgraded GE engines. It looks fantastic, and should be ready for shipment soon. If anyone has questions, just post them here, or stop by www.skyworkstoys.com and click on the "contact us" tab. I will get back to you as quick as I can.

tom@skyworkstoys wrote:Hi everyone! My name is Tom, and I am one of the modelers at SkyWorksToys, and also double as the marketing manger. My goal is to review all of the posts and see if I can help anyone out. I will also monitor the email from the SkyWorksToys website and answer any questions that may come up. Jack is crazy busy right now with all of his new projects, so I am going to help out here. Just an update for everyone, the landing gear is here, and has shipped to the people who will get it to you! Jack is also working on a really cool F-14 engine cowling for the upgraded GE engines. It looks fantastic, and should be ready for shipment soon. If anyone has questions, just post them here, or stop by www.skyworkstoys.com and click on the "contact us" tab. I will get back to you as quick as I can.

tom any idea if you make a functional landing gear with spring... like the one jsi have.. just recast the jsi L shape landing gear and die cast the front lower and top strut..


there r some people who wants functioning landing gear ..

thanks

Welcome aboard, Tom! It's nice to have you here!

Welcome Tom, glade to have you here!

Black_Dragon_One wrote:[



tom any idea if you make a functional landing gear with spring... like the one jsi have.. just recast the jsi L shape landing gear and die cast the front lower and top strut..


there r some people who wants functioning landing gear ..

thanks

I agree!

Just a note on private messages. Since I work for SkyWorks I want to promote the products, and if I keep doing private messages it is not in that theme. If you have a personal question, that is fine, but if your question has anything to do with SkyWorksToys please make it public and post it. Thanks

As for the movable landing gear, I don't know if Jack has the time right now. He, and I are working like gang-busters just to keep up with the static ones we have, but I will pass it along.

Several of you have mentioned that we need more 1/18th scale models, and I can tell you that there are some really fantastic models coming from SkyWorks, some that have never been done in 1.18th! Keep watching, and once I can give some detail, I will. Trust me, you will all be blown away with the new products!!

ok.. i just put on jack wheels great work..

here is something you need to invest in

a precision screw set.. they go for 5 at rite aid..

finger nail cutter medium one (plan to through this a way)


exsato knife to work with the wheels

needle nose pliers

and maybe

a glass repair set with multiple long tiny long screw any mom and pop pharmacy store has them.. long tiny screw...


before warn jsi has pins that only go one way .. there is the friction side and the smooth side.. push from the smooth toward the friction side. do not do it the other way round otherwise your parts you get it stuck

congratulation the baby jack

thanks for the help with my wheels

also because we are mostly right handed.. the right side upper strut will align with the pin whole but the left will not so i tape it...

jack if you later decide to make a functioning landing gear i buy another set...

Black_Dragon_One wrote:ok.. i just put on jack wheels great work..

here is something you need to invest in

a precision screw set.. they go for 5 at rite aid..

finger nail cutter medium one (plan to through this a way)


exsato knife to work with the wheels

needle nose pliers

and maybe

a glass repair set with multiple long tiny long screw any mom and pop pharmacy store has them.. long tiny screw...


before warn jsi has pins that only go one way .. there is the friction side and the smooth side.. push from the smooth toward the friction side. do not do it the other way round otherwise your parts you get it stuck

congratulation the baby jack

thanks for the help with my wheels

also because we are mostly right handed.. the right side upper strut will align with the pin whole but the left will not so i tape it...

jack if you later decide to make a functioning landing gear i buy another set...

Why the exacto knife and glass repair set?

I was also told by Jack that the Landing gear could be moded to work..I don't know how...

Maybe Tom could ask him how.

VMF115 wrote:

Black_Dragon_One wrote:ok.. i just put on jack wheels great work..

here is something you need to invest in

a precision screw set.. they go for 5 at rite aid..

finger nail cutter medium one (plan to through this a way)


exsato knife to work with the wheels

needle nose pliers

and maybe

a glass repair set with multiple long tiny long screw any mom and pop pharmacy store has them.. long tiny screw...


before warn jsi has pins that only go one way .. there is the friction side and the smooth side.. push from the smooth toward the friction side. do not do it the other way round otherwise your parts you get it stuck

congratulation the baby jack

thanks for the help with my wheels

also because we are mostly right handed.. the right side upper strut will align with the pin whole but the left will not so i tape it...

jack if you later decide to make a functioning landing gear i buy another set...

Why the exacto knife and glass repair set?

I was also told by Jack that the Landing gear could be moded to work..I don't know how...

Maybe Tom could ask him how.

the wheels is pressure press so when removing the cap you must cut around to give you something to pry it off.. cut slowly around edge so you and get your screw drive to in to left the cap

the eye kit is just in case the jsi screw did not for the upper struts you have something that dose work..

the eye glass kit it optional if the pin does not fit into the landing gear whole..

ok no eye glass kit needed i was able to remove some pant in the pin whole and how every pin whole fit..

tom@skyworkstoys wrote:Just a note on private messages. Since I work for SkyWorks I want to promote the products, and if I keep doing private messages it is not in that theme. If you have a personal question, that is fine, but if your question has anything to do with SkyWorksToys please make it public and post it. Thanks

As for the movable landing gear, I don't know if Jack has the time right now. He, and I are working like gang-busters just to keep up with the static ones we have, but I will pass it along.

Several of you have mentioned that we need more 1/18th scale models, and I can tell you that there are some really fantastic models coming from SkyWorks, some that have never been done in 1.18th! Keep watching, and once I can give some detail, I will. Trust me, you will all be blown away with the new products!!

Will you be making a large number so final price can be lower, or making low numbers with the very high price point?

I will ask Jack what he thinks about modification of the landing gear, and it is possible. I am afraid that the model may not allow our gear to retract due to size of wheel bay, but I will do some research on that and post it later.

As for the type of models we are working on at SkyWorksToys, that is Jack's baby! I'm not sure what the prices will be, or how many will be in a production run of a specific model. Once it is OK for me to say something specific, I will, but that is a decision for Jack. It is very important we protect ourselves from having something of ours taken by one of the "others" and then loosing our sales of the unit.

Until next time, good modeling!

In my last post I said it was possible to modify the landing gear, but I forgot to put in IF. I will ask Jack IF it is possible, not that it is, I don't know at this point.

Sorry about the mistake!

ok i got an idea to make functioning landing gear one just need the tools and material

you need two brass solid tube one side of the shock compressor and the other the size of the screw whole of the wheels wheals

you also need a drill bit that can drill a whole the size of the screw whole of the wheels wheals into the brass..

first drill a whole into the the shock compressor second insert the second solid tube the size of the screw whole into that.. thus making a T type ..

this will be the skeleton of the for which all the weight will be place on .. thus removing the stress of the plastic

this remind me of some of the ikea nuts and bolts