iHobby Pics?

Quixote511 · Post by **Quixote511** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:42 pm

Anybody find pics from iHobby yet? No, I don't have any. I wash fishing to see if someone else did.

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:37 am

Don't think there were any diecast manufacturers there we would be interested in.. The pics I have seen are mostly from model companies, with a smattering of R/C and robotic stuff.. Mostly what the Japanese market is interested in..

Quixote511 · Post by **Quixote511** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:58 pm

I know Merit--ie bbi--was going to be there. I was just wondering if there was anymore word from them.

Post by **aferguson** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:21 pm

I doubt they had anything new to show, at least not in 1/18. If there were anything new coming i'm sure Mike would have told us.

Due up next from BBI are the Civil War figures in the WOTW line. 6 each confederate and union and cannons too. Looks very promising.

digger · Post by **digger** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:27 pm

aferguson wrote:I doubt they had anything new to show, at least not in 1/18. If there were anything new coming i'm sure Mike would have told us..

Eh, there have been plenty of times the first look we got at bbi stuff was from convention pics without ever having heard from Mike about it before hand.... The first WWII guys and newer modern guys come to mind..

According to the iHobby site 21C was there too..

FieroDude · Post by **FieroDude** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:04 pm

I had planned on going but had to cancel. However, my expeirence last year was that there was nothing there that we didn't already know about. They only upside to going was freebies (mostly 1/144) and the intel from FOV about the upcoming 1/18 line, which has since come to pass. But nobody had anything on display that wasn't already announced-the best I might have expected was maybe seeing the FOV Sherman and Tiger, and maybe a prototype of the 88 or KT, although I kind of doubt it. Last year, 21st had the PPW Hanomag and the PAK-40 in the booth, but by then we already had in-store sightings. The only item I saw last year that wasn't out yet was the 1/32 Corsair, and that debuted a week or two later.

CW4USARMY · Post by **CW4USARMY** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:41 pm

Found this pic of 21st booth!

http://picasaweb.google.com/tularehobbi ... 5249896914

CW4USARMY · Post by **CW4USARMY** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:43 pm

Wow!, These look like they could be 1:18! What do ya think Aferg?
http://picasaweb.google.com/tularehobbi ... 9739177586

Post by **aferguson** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:48 pm

looks like a prototype of the 1/18 king tiger in the first pic. Those planes in the second pic are r/c. Very hard to tell what size and scale they might be. The A-7's and su-37 might be close though.

CW4USARMY · Post by **CW4USARMY** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:55 pm

If that SU comes prepainted, I would pick up one. I'll be on the look out for the company that makes it. Also looks like
a 21st nightfighter hidden behind the KingTiger

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:56 pm

There is also an M16 halftrack re-paint in the lower left corner...

CW4USARMY · Post by **CW4USARMY** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:58 pm

Yep, Was trying to see if there was any armament on it or just a troop carrier.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:20 pm

Best I could do without access to the crime lab..

Post by **aferguson** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:36 pm

zzz.......there's a king tiger and a 262 nightfighter on the table and you guys are talking about a drab m3 repaint!

i will probably hear about the Su-37 on the rcgroup forum at some point. I'l be sure to post if i do. It could easily be way over or under scale though.