HM doing a Strike Eagle

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HM doing a Strike Eagle

Post by aferguson » Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:50 am

Long anticipated by many, HM is going to do a Strike Eagle. The Witty/Gemini ones just don't cut it for many due to errors and a mishapen canopy.

That's the good news. The bad news is the price: $105. Steep increase over similarily sized HM's in the past. Not sure why but it may be that it's a brand new tool as opposed to other releases which are repaints of an existing tool? Maybe it's coming with oodles of ordnance? Dunno.

Here's a thread discussing the upcoming release. Much talk about the price, naturally and also many not happy with the first scheme chosen. A mystery to me as i think the scheme is excellent and probably my number one choice. Not sure what the beef is.

http://www.diecastaircraftforum.com/mil ... istan.html
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Re: HM doing a Strike Eagle

Post by tmanthegreat » Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:25 pm

First, that's a nice looking F-15E. They could have done a lot worse... But $105?!? I don't think I paid more than $70 for the F-111, and that's a bigger aircraft. Perhaps the price will go down... Now I'd like to see how this compares to the Witty version and the FOV model as well.
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Re: HM doing a Strike Eagle

Post by aferguson » Fri Jun 20, 2014 4:22 am

yeah the jump in price is a bit of a mystery......could just be opportunistic pricing by HM as they know lots of people are itching for a Strike Eagle and the competition is not very good (Dragon, Witty/Gemini and Fov all have major problems).
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