"Big chopper" Topic
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| Andy ONeill | 10 Jul 2009 9:03 a.m. PST |
I've been collecting for Black Hawk Down style scenarious and moderns generally.
20mil is the scale I decided on.
Surprise, surprise… I have a 1/72 black hawk model.
Now I kind of knew before I ordered it that 1/72 aircraft are pretty big.
Opening the box confirmed my suspicions.
Nose to tail it's about 9 inches.
That's a big chopper! OK to have one on table with people fast lining.
OK to have a crashed one on table.
But circling one round would be a bit of a bind. My solution to this in ww2 is to use much smaller scale aircraft.
So I nipped down to toys r us to see what they had.
Sure enough, they had a suitable range.
These are "Fast Lane Super Aircraft".
I got a couple of black hawks and a couple of apache.
They're 2.49 quid each and half the size of the 1/72 so they're maybe something in the order of 1/144.
Although die cast they're fairly light and will be a lot more practical atop a wire tripod. |
| Jemima Fawr | 10 Jul 2009 9:38 a.m. PST |
Revell did a lovely Blackhawk in 1/100th, but it's sadly out of production at the moment. |
| Lion in the Stars | 10 Jul 2009 1:00 p.m. PST |
Have you looked at the Ambush Alley forums? One of the guys there had made a flight stand for a Blackhawk out of some florist's wire, it looks like a 'Fast Rope' rig. |
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