Small Scale Military Headquarters

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:43 pm**

Is this Butcher Bird yet available? Have not seen this in any local WM's; what a surprise!!

dV

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:47 pm**

There have been reports that these are now showing up, but I haven't seen them yet..

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:07 pm**

I got one sitting on the shelf waiting to be put together.

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:09 pm**

I had written earlier that the 190A-8 Red 19 has shown up in the Raleigh, NC area Wal-Marts. As always, watch out for quality control. My first Red 19 had a noticable paint brush stroke of the wrong color on the port wing and also had a gray painted outer wing cannon bulge on that same wing. That bulge should have been green. The propellor assembly was also loose which caused it to droop a bit. I purchased a second one without these defects, but had to contend with wing cannon pointed in errant directions.

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:10 pm**

Rowsdower wrote:I got one sitting on the shelf waiting to be put together.

Pics please?

I am still waiting to see the Italian camo scheme, nevertheless this one.

No more complaining that Florida is at the end of the distribution stream anymore!

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:29 pm**

Here you go. I saw an Italian camo 190 today at WM but passed. We still haven't seen any Hetzers, I had to buy mine from Smalljoes. Also no P-51D's except the Brit Sharkmouth. And don't get me started on GI Joe and Star Wars. This was just a lucky fluke.

I gotta say that these new 190's are the best damn models ever put out by 21st! Feels like your holding a kit built model and not a pre-built toy.

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:33 pm**

Thanks Rows. These are some sweet birds, aren't they?

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:44 pm**

olifant wrote:

Thanks Rows. These are some sweet birds, aren't they?

Yes they are! I am super pleased with this 190 because there are no bent cannon, loose parts or gaps and the paint job is near perfect.

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:09 am**

I don't get jack down here...

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:30 am**

AlloySkull wrote:I don't get jack down here...

.....nor here in Tampa area

etiher

Nice, no, beautiful pix Rows...thanks. I figured this Red 19 was a beauty, now I know for sure.

Thanks for all the above info, too.

dV

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:50 am**

Looks sweet! I still have to find one.

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:15 am**

AlloySkull wrote:I don't get jack down here...

AlloySkull speaks the truth.

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:35 pm**

do the wheels stay up or flop down? Fortunately, I only hang the 1\18 ones

Posted: **Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:11 pm**

The wheels don't like to stay up. Maybe I'm missing something? The rake is cool and it looks nice enough on the ground but I hang all my 1:32 planes. I've got some poster putty that usually does the trick.

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:09 am**

Picked one up last night at the Mishawaka, In Walmart. The best part was it rang up for $10.00, which helped me get over the disapointment of still not finding the TRU exclusive Joe 5 packs while I was up there.

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:23 am**

I'd like to find one of these sometime soon, but no luck in my area as of yet. Plenty of the restocks of last year's Bf-109Fs, however

I'm also VERY disappointed in Wal Mart and TRU as of late regarding the 32x planes and other new 21c products. All subsequent releases from the first wave of 32x FW-190Ds & P-47s on showed up on the west coast first! 1:18 was a different story as that showed up in the east and took its time to come west...

However, as of late, ALL the goodies in all the scales have shown up in the midwest or east or south first and taken their sweet time to go anywhere else. So, if you people living west of the Rocky mtns. are tired of seeing Platoon figures on the shelves or 32x FW-190As, think again of your starving brethren and consider yourselves lucky

Small Scale Military Headquarters

Fw-190A8 Red 19 JG300

Fw-190A8 Red 19 JG300

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