1:18 Lacking Air Transport!
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:22 pm
One of the big gaps in my 1:18 inventory is air transport.
There have been a few smaller haulers - e.g. the XD Huey and BBI Blackhawk, but anything that could carry a larger load seems to be sorely lacking from any manufacturer. Yeah, yeah, I know - any true 1:18 scale air transport like a C-130, or even a MH-53 or CH-47 would be ridiculously huge!
The only thing I've stumbled across able to carry airlift 12+ troops or a small vehicle like a jeep or humvee is Chap Mei's knock-off on the CH-46 Sea Knight (currently in some TRUs boxed as the TRU generic brand Elite Operations). I believe one of our board members was grafting two of these together to make a more realistic CH-46.
Has anyone come across options in this very absent category?!?!? I'm all ears for fixed- or rotary-winged options in anything roughly 1:18!
There have been a few smaller haulers - e.g. the XD Huey and BBI Blackhawk, but anything that could carry a larger load seems to be sorely lacking from any manufacturer. Yeah, yeah, I know - any true 1:18 scale air transport like a C-130, or even a MH-53 or CH-47 would be ridiculously huge!
The only thing I've stumbled across able to carry airlift 12+ troops or a small vehicle like a jeep or humvee is Chap Mei's knock-off on the CH-46 Sea Knight (currently in some TRUs boxed as the TRU generic brand Elite Operations). I believe one of our board members was grafting two of these together to make a more realistic CH-46.
Has anyone come across options in this very absent category?!?!? I'm all ears for fixed- or rotary-winged options in anything roughly 1:18!