The AV-7 "FanVan" utility VTOL - a reliable, rugged workhorse for your airmobile forces! Tuffleywerkz Gmbh brings you a 10-part all metal kit, complete with positionable fan units, tribarrel in chin turret and tricycle landing gear. Will carry 10-12 fully equipped troops plus a 2-man flight crew.
Preview photos are of the first assembled test run from master castings. Still needs to be cleaned up before production moulds are made, but it should be in production and on sale very soon - code and price to be advised.
(Flight stand not included) Jon advises that the one in the pics is made from a large FoW plastic base, one of our small grav vehicle stands, some brass rod and a good splurge of Basetex!
Zod AirCav from GZG!
I want me a platoon of these!
I want me a platoon of these!
Cheers
Mark
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Mark
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Wow, that does look nice, could double as a civy model too...
ReplyDeleteI thought Zod, but you know, it's nicely utilitarian and screams NAC Marine Combat Cab!
ReplyDeleteCivillian - yup - paint the panels on the side as windows and you have a cab or bus!
Cheers
Mark
This is just a pure "yum" vehicle.
ReplyDeleteThe fan units look a bit light for the job...
ReplyDeleteBut that won't stop me from picking up a few of these! The idea is GREAT and the vehicle itself is classy as hell.
A fine mid-tech 'slick' for vertical insertions, casevacs and evacs. Just be sure to add an EW pod to defeat those pesky shoulder-fired missiles!
Here's hoping this is the start of a line of fan-powered vehicles.
Holly shite !!! That looks totally wicked !
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna have a few of those !
That just hit the top of my must have list. GREAT stuff!
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed some sweet lovin'....
ReplyDeleteThat's going on the Birthday list!
I just picked up a couple of the ever-popular Matchbox SWAT transports, and now a grav version is coming out. Excellent!
ReplyDeleteThis does not work. Even if the fans could lift off this housemoving van, something has to propell it forward. If you shift the fans into "travel mode", this will obviously give a nasty crash. Pity. Usually GZG is much, much better.
ReplyDeleteI bet you could take the fans off and put on some of the grav pads and it would look loverly.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly could, Ken! The mountings are not the same, but it wouldn't take much modification to do it.
ReplyDelete"...something has to propell it forward. If you shift the fans into "travel mode", this will obviously give a nasty crash"
ReplyDeleteD'oh! Of course! That explains why all helicopters fall out of the sky the moment they tilt their rotors to get forward thrust.
Oh, no, hang on a minute..... ;-)
BTW, for all those of you who DO seem to like it, the production moulds should be getting made tomorrow! :-)
Looks good, the tricycle undercarriage looks like an afterthought though.
ReplyDeleteIs it the same one as the other VTOl?
No, it's not the same, though I did modify some of the parts of the Mantis landing gear masters to make those for the AV-7 (hey, why start from scratch when you've got perfectly serviceable parts to hand?!). As to it looking like an afrethought, it's got to land on something - and the old AV-6 that we did in 25mm and 6mm had three landing feet, so I simply kept the same configuration. Wheels on the gear seemed better than skids, as it gives the craft taxiing capability on good surfaces.
ReplyDeleteI love it... one squadron of Coalition patrol cars coming up...
ReplyDeleteJon - another luvverly opus!
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