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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Ouch on December 13, 2002, 09:17:51 AM

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: Ouch on December 13, 2002, 09:17:51 AM

I imagin a lot of you guys are like me, having little models of your favorite aircraft around your house/office.

Yesterday I was in Toys R Us shopping for my daughters.  After locating what they liked, mom took them out while I "waited in line" with the things they were buying for their gifts for friends.  Then I went and got their gifts.

While I was grabbing stuff, I noticed a GI Joe section and just had to stop for a minute.  They had some cool tanks and stuff, but then I noticed something else.

A LARGE box with an F4U (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UQGH/qid=1039792469/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/002-2702341-6097641?v=glance&s=toys)
fuselage in it?? Looking closer I found multiple different paint schemes for the F4.  Then I noticed the STUKA! (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UQGK/qid=1039792794/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_11/002-2702341-6097641?v=glance&s=toys)
WOW!

While drolling over these, I got to talking with two guys who were also looking at them, and they told me about the

p38 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UQGI/qid=1039792469/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/002-2702341-6097641?v=glance&s=toys)
 and the  P51 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000789SU/qid=1039792469/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-2702341-6097641?v=glance&s=toys)

Now I gotta scrape up a couple of hundred bucks and find room in my house for them.

Ouch out.

PS.  The final kicker.  Those SOB's that I was  talking to have jobs at the Cavenaugh Flight Museum, actually WORKING WITH THE REAL DAMN THING.

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: Mogi on December 13, 2002, 09:53:40 AM

Bought the P-51 last year for my son, 21st Century toy makes some great stuff.

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: Midnight on December 13, 2002, 12:12:20 PM

I've got the P-51 and the 109... I think I'll have to get these as well :)

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: keyapaha on December 13, 2002, 12:25:19 PM

man those are cool I saw the stuka its very nice .Does 21st have a web site or a catalouge with more planes.

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: Mogi on December 13, 2002, 01:09:26 PM

Website  http://www.21stcenturytoys.com

Title: update
Post by: Ouch on December 13, 2002, 02:22:19 PM

Well,  I broke down and hunted today till I found the P-38.  It's HUGE!  I mean really, unbelievable, awesomely HUGE!

I'm sitting in my office right now trying to decide if I want to do work, or assemble it.  Work is looking less and less likely.

The Toys R Us website had more of the 21st Century Toys stuff than their own website, so if your looking for something, that's where I would suggest going first.

Ouch out.

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: Mickey1992 on December 13, 2002, 02:27:34 PM

What was the WW2OL fan site where a guy had a bunch of products from 21st Century Toys and he would pose them and make a running comic type story line with them?

If anyone knows, let me know.  I would love to see that again.

Title: Re: update
Post by: Kevin14 on December 13, 2002, 03:21:43 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Ouch
Well,  I broke down and hunted today till I found the P-38.  It's HUGE!  I mean really, unbelievable, awesomely HUGE!...
Ouch out.

How big is this really, like in feet?

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: Ouch on December 13, 2002, 04:04:45 PM

I think it's somewehre between 3 and 4 foot wingspan.  I haven't assembled it yet, but let me tell you. It's HUGE!

:-)

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: chunder' on December 14, 2002, 04:39:34 PM

I picked up the P38 a few weeks ago, that sucker is sweet :)  The wingspan is about 34.5" and it's about 26" long.  A word of warning: to retract the nose gear you must push it upwards before moving it back, if you try to force the gear it may break.

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: ccvi on December 14, 2002, 05:00:04 PM

Large? Huge? Not really. I want one of those:

http://www.modellbau-ol.de/doc_root/download/bilderp38.ZIP

Unfortunately it's about 200 times the price of the 21st century toys ;)

Title: Large scale (1/18) P38, P51, Stuka, F4U
Post by: poopster on December 14, 2002, 10:56:37 PM

Good stuff, have them all :D