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paladin2019

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Ferret VTOL
« on: 22 July 2023, 22:31:35 »
I love this little thing. I am currently proxying with Kestrels (soon to be GHQ Kiowas), but I'd like to know if anyone is marketing 1:300 RAH-66 Comanches. The TRO:3026 illustration has strong LHX vibes.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #1 on: 23 July 2023, 03:14:39 »
The only thing I can find after a quick search is someone offering a print via shapeways:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/AA52DSNUL/1-285-6mm-rah-66-comanche

But how about the Gazelle as a stand-in? It's got the three-bladed main rotor and the fanned tail rotor of the Ferret.

https://www.ghqmodels.com/collections/modern-1-285-6mm-scale/products/sa314-gazelle
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #2 on: 23 July 2023, 03:48:20 »
I would say that a ferret is more a Huey than a Comanche.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #3 on: 23 July 2023, 05:39:34 »
I'm not fond of the Gazelle as a proxy. Too round, not faceted enough. Similar problem with the Iroquois. Besides being a lighter and decidedly less faceted airframe than suggested for the Ferret, I'm also using Wild Weasels mainly because I don't have the option to build my own conventional infantry to utilize the passenger space. And people still try to shoot them with TMM 6 or 7 because they don't like spotters with lots of missile boats, so a modicum of armor is helpful. They're only 60k, so in our campaign framework, buying a new one is a rounding error.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #4 on: 23 July 2023, 17:18:28 »
It would have to be quite small. It was only 5 tons, I know sizes in Battletech are a little off.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #5 on: 23 July 2023, 20:04:54 »
UH-1s are ~5 tons too.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #6 on: 23 July 2023, 20:12:29 »
So is the Comanche. As a scout or squad carrier, its tonnage is about perfect.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #7 on: 22 August 2023, 18:03:46 »
For anyone who still cares, I built one out of spare sprue and a 1:100 M2 barrel from a Team Yankee kit. (It's cleaned up a little more from this pre-gun pic.) All I need now is for my fancy rotor disk to come in from Aries.

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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #8 on: 22 August 2023, 18:09:45 »
Amazing work! 0.0
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #9 on: 23 August 2023, 19:39:50 »
Seconding the kudos on that sculpting. It's hard to work on a subject that small.
For those who aren't as crafty, I found these a while back:
https://www.heroicsandros.co.uk/shop/GMA403-EC-135-p167986292
A 6mm version of the Eurocopter 135, which looks pretty similar to the Eurocopter Dauphin/Panther/Hanbin Z-9, any one of which makes a decent stand in for a Ferret. It's a pity the price on them has gone up £2 a mini since I first saw them some years back.  :sad:
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #10 on: 23 August 2023, 19:45:31 »
That's one crazy price for a piece that small!
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #11 on: 23 August 2023, 20:30:43 »
Considering GHQ has OH-58Ds for 14 bucks plus shipping for two, 3.5 pounds is a fairly decent price.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #12 on: 03 September 2023, 20:27:40 »
Can't get picks of them right now but I've been using tiny Bell UH-1 choppers for this roll for years.

They came from an old warship model of a totally wrong scale but they are usable as a tiny VTOL in 6mm scale.

IIRC they came from a BIG model of one of the very few helicopter carriers the Navy had.
Tarawa Class amphibious assault ship maybe?  It had hover craft that came out of the back of the hull to.

I've been waiting for an official sculpt for a while.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #13 on: 14 September 2023, 17:40:36 »
Thought you all might be interested in some more in the Epic of the Ferret. I didn't get pre-primer pics of the filing and sanding, but here are pics of the thing primed. With banana, errr Kestrels, for scale. The rotor head is just a pair of magnets, that way I didn't have to fiddle around with matching polarity and everything. If the fuselage refuses to join, just flip the rotor over. I'm not good enough to file the canopy detail into the model, so I'll probably draw it in with a Micron pen and maybe cheat ad fill in with a Sharpie. (pics to follow if I can get them to upload.)
« Last Edit: 14 September 2023, 20:40:08 by paladin2019 »
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #14 on: 14 September 2023, 18:58:35 »
one more pic
« Last Edit: 14 September 2023, 20:41:58 by paladin2019 »
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #15 on: 14 September 2023, 20:38:11 »
Wow. Those are potato quality with compression. I'll try to get some better versions up.

EDIT: Those should be better.
« Last Edit: 14 September 2023, 20:42:13 by paladin2019 »
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #16 on: 15 September 2023, 09:00:54 »
Looking good! :)
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #17 on: 07 March 2024, 02:17:53 »
I have a question about this pic from the picture scroll on the main website. Is the helo supposed to be a Ferret or something else?

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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #18 on: 07 March 2024, 04:51:57 »
It looks like dual guns in the nose, so probably not?
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #19 on: 07 March 2024, 17:52:44 »
Quote from: paladin2019 on 07 March 2024, 02:17:53
I have a question about this pic from the picture scroll on the main website. Is the helo supposed to be a Ferret or something else?



It's a Marten Scout VTOL.

That image is the cover of TRO 3145 Federated Suns, where it was introduced.
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Re: Ferret VTOL
« Reply #20 on: 07 March 2024, 18:30:18 »
Thanks
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