"Jackpot at Target!" Topic

Aliens Dropship… eat your heart out.
GW Valkyie… whatever.

I just found the coolest gaming worthy VTOL I've ever laid my eyes on.
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I found this little jewel at Target today during my lunch break. They had two in stock and I snapped both of them up.

After busting one of them out of the packaging I put it up against some of my 28mm figs.
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Here you see a top view of it compaired to:
AT-43 Therian and UNA Trooper
Urban War Viridian Marine
Pig Iron Heavy Infantry
You can also see it against GZGs 15mm Phalanx AFV.
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At twenty dollars, this thing puts just about every large gaming scale aircraft to shame. The details on this thing pop beautifully, hardly any defects to speak of… perfect for use right out of the box or prime it up and paint away. The lift engines swivel about by turning that knurled wheel in the center of the vehicle. Landing gear easily and neatly retracts and has a pair of shootable missles that can be converted to heavy cannons of your desire.

You can use this as a Support VTOL or light dropship for your 28mm games or a heavy dropship for your 15mm action.

You can't go wrong with this bad boy!

Enjoy!

Wow. My wife is going to kill me now. Thanks.

CC

Man … qualifies for free shipping if you order two of them from Amazon.

And the day is so young.

Oh, wow… that's great!

The 6" tall 'tank/tracked termie' is pretty nice too, typically UK amazon don't have them. Still, I could always ask the mother in law to get me some when she goes stateside later this year :-)

ooh, I think I need to call my wife while she's and tell her to stop by Target…

That is a Hunter-Killer, from the Terminator movies.

they are starting to appear at Toys R Us as well.

do any compartments open?

No compartments. The only moving parts are the engines and the landing gear.

What an incredible model! Thanks for the head's up, and even more importantly the comparison shots. It looks absolutely perfect with 28mm.

The front compartment opens

No compartments. The only moving parts are the engines and the landing gear.

The front compartment opens

SOMEONE knows where the secret panel is…

Yes, it's not well spelled out on the directions.
Flip it over and pull the landing gear under the guns and it pops open. Can't see much use for it though.

The "Secret Compartment" on the underside is so you can give the infantry terminator a ride. He fits in there.

No, I'm serious.

Uh, I found that, and posted that it is a great 15-28mm dropship first! (early last week)

:(

There is no justice.

Seriously. I'm about to start the "No justice, no peace" chant!

:)

I see that it's been talked about a little bit in the past, no, I haven't seen your post Smokeyroan… but, it ain't like I'm trying to steal your thunder. I'm just showing folks what I got.
… And the comparison shots.

And, no I wasn't aware that there was a "secret" compartment! *laughs* It's worthless, but, yes, I do stand corrected.

I was joking. :) (but I did find it first) :) :) :)

Hey Mike how are you going to base the thing I don't think my flight stands will work for it.

any suggestions?

BTW I just picked up mine at Target as well.

I also have three of the tanks comming to me in a trade. There is gonna be some terminater battles soon.

…………..Doug

Not sure how heavy it is, but our 5" based Flight Stands might work for it.

Best regards,

Rob
topgunmarketing.org

It seems a tad heavier than a Tau Hammerhead tank. so, I -think- I can use a large flight base for it.
I'm thinking instead of the plastic rod, I would use brass rod or tube. That should do nicely.

My conundrum is figuring out who it goes better with- the AT-43 troops, the Pig Iron Troops or the Viridian Marines.

Cheers!

Top Gun's bases'll probably work great too!

Wow, awesome! I've just decided to run a 25mm Terminator game at Warparty in June. I plan on having at least 4 of the tracked Terminators and 2 of the Hunter Killers to battle my Copplestone Jungle Troopers and Scavengers along with a few Apache Gunships and M1 tanks. :-D

Ahhhhh yes………

Thhanks for posting this!

John

Yup, it looks great.

The terminator that comes with it is quite large.

I'm guessing 40mm – 50mm's tall.

Hmm, that's pretty good actually. The tank isn't bad either. Thanks for the heads-up.

Got to wait until the 15th here in the UK before the toy is released.

"The terminator that comes with it is quite large."

Oh yeah. It's too big for anything I'm doing.
So, it went to my 6yo son. He was overjoyed!

Cheers!

Whoa, that looks great. Thanks for the info.

The Terminator that comes with it is 3 and 1/2" tall.

Would make a good Kaiju for 6mm. :)

I picked one of these up at a Horror/Sci-fi convention about 3 weeks ago. If I had more cash I would have bought the other 4..

Nice find!

I'm still waiting for a HALO Pelican though…

Just picked mine up at lunch – will be my SST dropship. Thanks for the heads up!

Steve

Play.com have them in the UK for £17.99 GBP free delivery.

I want to hear about someone getting ed at his dice rolls and using that cannon launcher to take some figures out in frustration.

:)

Yup that is very cool.

Michael

Play.com have them in the UK for £17.99 GBP GBP free delivery.

not until the 15th :(

Broken Halo 08 May 2009 10:52 a.m. PST
Nice find!

I'm still waiting for a HALO Pelican though…

Broken Halo, don't hold your breath ! ! !

8) @(^.^)@

Yes, a HALO Pelican would be cool……

Steve, I'm with you. It would work nicely with my SST minis.

Picked one up yesterday. It looks great. Need to work on a flight stand.

I hit Target yesterday while Mothers Day shopping. Woot SST dropship. I might have to go back and buy the 2nd one.

Cheers, Xin

Score!!! Thanks to this thread, I went to Target and picked up one. It will serve as a great all purpose dropship. I intend to scratchbuild an underhanging compartment for delivering troops and power armor to the battlefield.

I don't think it will see much service in flight, but it will GREAT as an objective/deployment site on the table!

Thanks guys – I've just ordered a T-100 and pre-ordered the HK from Play.com :-)

I have two of these. I repainted them to match my tracked HK figure (they are painted black, not chrome) Just a little Mythril silver paint, and pow! Instant HK. Well worth the money.