Author Topic: Gunships GB Inspirations Thread  (Read 24407 times)

Offline Weaver

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Re: Gunships GB Inspirations Thread
« Reply #50 on: May 04, 2016, 10:43:11 AM »
Been done ---

http://www.ipmsusa.org/reviews/Archive/Kits/Aircraft/Italeri_72_ACH-47/Italeri_72_ACH-47.htm


I know it's been done as a real world model, but what Greg and I are proposing is a Whif version of it that could be built with any Chinook model.
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Offline Volkodav

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Re: Gunships GB Inspirations Thread
« Reply #51 on: May 04, 2016, 08:08:06 PM »
The ACH-47 apparently worked quite well but the Chooks were far more valuable as lifters and there were never really enough of them for their primary mission set to be able to spare them for specialist roles.