1/18 Aircraft Dreams...

[ThunderDan19]

So I finally got my office pretty much put back together after just about a year of it being in varying levels of storage since we moved out of our previous house and into this one and the requisite necessary construction this one needed. Thankfully, all my 1:18 scale vehicles survived it, with just a little dust and possibly a little heat wear (thankfully not showing at all thus far, save for some drooping of the Apache's rotors) to the plastic from being stored in the attic.

I got the planes (F-18, F-16 and F-14) and helos (AH-1W and AH-64) hung and the tanks and APCs (M1A1, M3 and LAV-25 - Thanks again for that replacement cannon, Daremo!) out and displayed atop my desk cabinet. Man, do these still display great! But, it did come with a little bittersweet. It makes me a sad panda that the iconic A-10 was never made. Similarly, nobody has made what would seem to be simpler - an F-22 Raptor or F-35 Lightning (assuming the internals weren't really built out/detailed). Seeing my beautiful birds hung again really made me really hungry for those.

If anybody knows of anybody out there making any of those three, detail and quality similar to the BBI Hornet and Viper, I'd scratch together significant cash to put one or all in my office.

 

[NSA]

The A-10 is always going to be a pipe dream I think.. I really can't wait to get a look at the finished Mi-24 Hind by Pickelhaube .. that'll be a really nice piece I bet.

I'd love an UH-1Y or AH-1Z or more international stuff.. but I wonder at the prices. I still want a Harrier, that seems like the perfect size..

 

[ThunderDan19]

I would have wanted that Harrier about 5 years before it actually dropped. Having seen its replacement (F-35B), I just don't have the same interest now that I would have had then. I'd need to find it for a heck of a deal to pick it up now. But a properly detailed Lightning Bravo hung up in hover configuration in my office, that would make me giddy...

And yeah, the A-10 is the holy grail of 1:18 for me. I'd have a tough time passing a properly detailed 'Hog for any price I think.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

I saw the title and of course the A-10 instantly came to mind. Sigh. We were close.

I'd still love to see a V-22 and an F-117. Though the RC F-117 body I do have is a great stand in that is spot on 1:18th.

https://www.bananahobby.com/4-ch-blitzrcworks-f-117-stealth-fighter-rc-edf-jet-arf.html

 

[ThunderDan19]

An MV-22 would be huge... and glorious! But only if there was a decent set of pilots and some Force Recon Marines to have rappelling out of it.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

An MV-22 would be huge... and glorious.

 

[ThunderDan19]

Just saying. I felt like my office got much smaller, but much awesomer after I hung up my birds. I think you might need an open two level playroom to hang an Osprey...

 

[pcsguy88]

Just saying. I felt like my office got much smaller, but much awesomer after I hung up my birds. I think you might need an open two level playroom to hang an Osprey...

You obviously have not seen Eddie's hand built Devastator...

 

[ThunderDan19]

I have. It's just been a while. He does like them big...

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

My "museum" has one square foot in the center that you stand in and spin around to view my claustrophobic collection.

 

[ThunderDan19]

My office is much like that. It's not tiny, but by the time I got all those planes up with any sort of clearance from the walls, there's just enough space left for the also recently added ceiling fan in the middle to not knock the nose cones off them.

 

[wolfwarrior690]

I saw the title and of course the A-10 instantly came to mind. Sigh. We were close.

I'd still love to see a V-22 and an F-117. Though the RC F-117 body I do have is a great stand in that is spot on 1:18th.

https://www.bananahobby.com/4-ch-blitzrcworks-f-117-stealth-fighter-rc-edf-jet-arf.html

Roto -Mast has an RC V-22 Osprey that is 1:18 and you can get it with just the body with no internals http://www.rotormast.com/en/index.php/home

 

[wolfwarrior690]

So I finally got my office pretty much put back together after just about a year of it being in varying levels of storage since we moved out of our previous house and into this one and the requisite necessary construction this one needed. Thankfully, all my 1:18 scale vehicles survived it, with just a little dust and possibly a little heat wear (thankfully not showing at all thus far, save for some drooping of the Apache's rotors) to the plastic from being stored in the attic.

I got the planes (F-18, F-16 and F-14) and helos (AH-1W and AH-64) hung and the tanks and APCs (M1A1, M3 and LAV-25 - Thanks again for that replacement cannon, Daremo!) out and displayed atop my desk cabinet. Man, do these still display great! But, it did come with a little bittersweet. It makes me a sad panda that the iconic A-10 was never made. Similarly, nobody has made what would seem to be simpler - an F-22 Raptor or F-35 Lightning (assuming the internals weren't really built out/detailed). Seeing my beautiful birds hung again really made me really hungry for those.

If anybody knows of anybody out there making any of those three, detail and quality similar to the BBI Hornet and Viper, I'd scratch together significant cash to put one or all in my office.

Well I have an F-35A that I made and an AH-1Z that I made from the 21st Century AH-1W that I made when all I had where photos of the prototype and I have'nt had the time to update it and still have alot to do on the F-35 New Wing and some other things.

 

[ThunderDan19]

Both of those look sweet!

 

[wolfwarrior690]

Both of those look sweet!

Thanks! Wish they had Made that A-10 or better yet if merit had made the SU-27 That was a sweet looking model

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Wasn't there a 1:18th F-4 prototype at one point? I can't seem to find anything about it.

 

[NSA]

I feel like 21st or Admiral had a 1:18 F-4.. it sounds familiar..

 

[pcsguy88]

There is a photo, but that was even before my time in 1:18. Warbirds would know.

 

[ThunderDan19]

Thanks! Wish they had Made that A-10 or better yet if merit had made the SU-27 That was a sweet looking model

Either would be awesome, but that Sukhoi would have been huge!

 

[wolfwarrior690]

Wasn't there a 1:18th F-4 prototype at one point? I can't seem to find anything about it.

YES THERE WAS BY 21ST cENTURY

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Yup!

$90 dollars?! $90 DOLLARS?!!

 

[wolfwarrior690]

This is the SU-27 that Merit was going to do. Now if we could only convince them to put it back on the burner!

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

 

[NSA]

God, I would nut if I saw either of those for sale.

According to the internet, due to inflation, $90 in 2007 funnymoney is about $109 today. That's still really cheap.

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

That is still relatively cheap considering what we know they'd charge for it, inflation or not.

 

[NSA]

It's probably be a $299 piece.

I think they were still with TRU and Walmart back then though. Economies of SCALE! (teehee)

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

Yeah, they'd find some way to rationalize price gouging. "Supply and demand" even though we know demand is low. Wait, they wouldn't justify anything.
- Just charge too much
- few buy them
- no further jets are made

We are here-->---->----^

 

[K-Tiger]

I still think 21st showed off that F-4 just to cock-block Admiral. I could go on all day about what I'd like to see in the scale, but a Bell 47D and CH-34 are way up there. MiG-29 for a small footprint, modernish fighter.

Oh, and an Tu-22M for the lulz.

 

[Mystic Papaver]

Well I have an F-35A that I made and an AH-1Z that I made from the 21st Century AH-1W that I made when all I had where photos of the prototype and I have'nt had the time to update it and still have alot to do on the F-35 New Wing and some other things.View attachment 11287View attachment 11288View attachment 11289View attachment 11290View attachment 11291

really amazing! What did you use for the Venom camera pod?

 

[DaleKrumm]

Jeez. It was supposed to be Dream Aircraft not Dream Air Force.

All the same, I could go for a Macchi Mc.205 to go along with my dream aircraft.