For the 21c 1:144 fans...

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:43 pm

...the SBD Dauntless is out

It comes in a dogfight pack with an A6M2 Zero in the Saburo Sakai (V-103) paintscheme that we saw earlier on one of the 32x Zeros. The Dauntless is great and even has a little bit of interior detail. Its hard to see in the photos, but the pilot seat, gunner seat and stowed machine guns are visible inside

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:54 pm

Cool!! More for my ever growing 1/144 fleet!!

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:07 pm

Very nice! 1:72 is the limit for me though!

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:21 pm

Rowsdower, I just noticed your new signature. By "hockey-hair" do you mean a mullet? I have visions of skinny old Gretsky.

I just watched this comedian the other night which joked about mullets. I just about wet myself.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:10 pm

Don’t drop them on the floor, you will never find them again.

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:38 pm

olifant wrote:Rowsdower, I just noticed your new signature. By "hockey-hair" do you mean a mullet? I have visions of skinny old Gretsky.

I just watched this comedian the other night which joked about mullets. I just about wet myself.

Lol yeah mullet and hockey hair are pretty much the same. Seems to be coming back into fashion lately.

This is the man in question. I guess it's kind of an inside joke to Mystery Science Theater fans.

Ol' Zap is basically Canada's answer to Chuck Norris.

VMF115 wrote: Don’t drop them on the floor, you will never find them again.

Each set comes with a pair of tweezers and a magnifying glass!

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:43 pm

Lol yeah mullet and hockey hair are pretty much the same. Seems to be coming back into fashion lately.

This is the man in question. I guess it's kind of an inside joke to Mystery Science Theater fans. Ol' Zap is basically Canada's answer to Chuck Norris.

I was never a big Norris fan. On the subject of hockey I think Marty McSoryley could kick his @** any day of the week and twice on Sunday! Now there was a mullet to behold!

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:45 pm

olifant wrote: was never a big Norris fan. On the subject of hockey I think Marty McSoryley could kick his @** any day of the week and twice on Sunday! Now there was a mullet to behold!

Lol yeah those hockey players can kick some butt.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:50 am

The 21stC 144 aircraft appear to be much more detailed and far better made than their "New Millennium Classic Armor" tanks. Do the landing gear retract?

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:51 am

Do the planes have little pilots in them?

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:27 am

I would share your opinion on the aircraft detail being better than the tanks, however many of the tanks themselves aren't that bad either. The planes do not have little pilots, but do have a bare minimum of interior detail - namely the seats. Little details get hard to see when the scale is this small

The landing gear do not retract, though it would be cool to have two sets of landing gear, one in the retracted position and one in the extended.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:26 am

As far as I can tell the tanks are useful primarily as gamer's items thanks to their relative cheapness. Many of those I have seen in Wal-Mart have been damaged right there in their little cases, guns bent or broken, turrets off, etc. The guns are usually very thin appearing too- the more so in contrast to say WTM or Dragon. Currently my W-M only has two 144 FW-190s, one of which has been pretty broken up but the packaging has been broken into so it is not as if it originally shipped that way- as so many of the tanks seem to.

Jagdpanther · Post by **Jagdpanther** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:15 pm

Great find Tman! Ill be looking out for it.

kimtheredxd · Post by **kimtheredxd** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:30 pm

Checked the silverdale WA TRU store no new 1/144th other than the pink p-40 set and the jagdtigers. I want a few of those dauntless planes!

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:47 pm

pink p-40s?????? to go along with the pink spitfires???????? what about the pink 109s????????????

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:38 am

The pink Me-109s, FW-190s & JU-87s all flew in support of the Pansy Divisions.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:16 am

ltcbj wrote:The pink Me-109s, FW-190s & JU-87s all flew in support of the Pansy Divisions.

It must have been this unit they supported.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9ZM6rI ... re=related

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:03 am

Or was the object of their schwerepunkt....