gavman

1) Over-Pressurized G-Suits:

After placing a Dragon Wings F-16 pilot in the cockpit and closing the canopy, have you ever noticed that the pilot has ever-so-slightly expanded, thus popping open the canopy?


2) Hard Landings:

Perhaps the rear landing gears on the Dragon Wings F/A-18s need to be redesigned. They are plastic wheels glued onto metal struts. Out of the box, my rear landing gears often appear to be askew, so I've been breaking the wheels off and re-gluing them.


3) Naked Pylons:

The Dragon Wings jets are just begging for an accessory ordinance pack (maybe with little carts to lug the extra weapons around) for those empty hardpoints. The Corgi jets have fixed ordinance, but their USN VX-4 Evaluators F-4 Phantom is a wily temptress, since it has pylons but no Sidewinders.

Since most of the current Air Command (Sun Star) photos are overhead shots, it's hard to tell if they will bear pylons without weapons. I know for sure that the USAF 555th FS 'Triple Nickel' F-16 Falcon only has pylons for the fixed auxillary fuel tanks. Whereas, some of the F/A-18s appear to either have empty underwing pylons or ones loaded with bombs.


4) Shiny Happy People:

Does someone have a recommendation for reducing shiny decal film on Armour/Franklin Mint or Air Command models?


5) Just as long as they're not called Dragon Wings "Whirlybirds Series":

The Corgi helicopter strategy is for gunships to be in 1/48 scale and larger helos, such as the USMC Marine One to be in 1/72 scale.

So far I have sampled or will sample helicopter gunships in 1/48 scale (Armour UH-1 Hueys; Corgi Hueys and AH-1 Cobras; Model Power AH-64 Apaches; Air Command AH-64D Apache Longbows; and Forces of Valor Apaches and UH-60 Blackhawks) and 1/100 scale (Armour Sea & Super Cobras and Apaches & Apache Longbows). But what I really want are gunships in 1/72 scale, so they would go with the hopefully eventually-to-be-released static (as opposed to the dynamic, radio-controlled versions) Dragon Armor M1 Abrams tanks and Humvees.