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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: oxiana on 01 March 2012, 01:18:49 PM

Title: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: oxiana on 01 March 2012, 01:18:49 PM

Thread title says it all, I think. The helicopter in question is this:

(http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq291/oxianaboy/PDVD_036.jpg)
(http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq291/oxianaboy/PDVD_007.jpg)

Making a shopping list for a potential project some months hence, would be nice to have one of these on it if possible.

Thanks for any help.  :)

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: Drunkendwarf on 01 March 2012, 01:26:35 PM

By the look of it it is a Alouette 2 with waterlanding gear; don't know if you can get it in 28mm.\

DJ

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: 6milPhil on 01 March 2012, 01:38:43 PM

Isn't that from the Prisoner?

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: Cadet13 on 01 March 2012, 01:53:25 PM

Heller does an Alouette 2 kit in 1/48 scale. No pontoons though... maybe they could be scrachbuilt  ???

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: zizi666 on 01 March 2012, 02:29:29 PM

Yep, Allouette II.
Belgian army had those when I was conscripted, without the pontoons ofcourse.

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: carlos marighela on 01 March 2012, 03:20:35 PM

Alouette II  and there's a venerable Solido diecast in roughly the right scale out there too.

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: oxiana on 01 March 2012, 04:12:00 PM

Thanks all – very helpful.  :)

Quote from: 6milPhil on 01 March 2012, 01:38:43 PM

Isn't that from the Prisoner?

Yes, that's the photo source. Project won't start until the summer, but turning over a few 7TV options right now.

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: Brummie Thug on 01 March 2012, 04:38:59 PM

theres an occasional limited edition sheriff helicopter in 1/48 the make escapes me at the moment but it turns up on ebay every so often. But its the Alouette 2 with the pontoons. I'll keep my eye out

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: Arlequín on 01 March 2012, 07:50:27 PM

Are you sure that the Sheriff's one isn't a Bell 47?  :?

Having said that, a Bell 47 would have the same 'look' as the Alouette II

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2r6U6HSAMKw/T0_S2oz5kII/AAAAAAAAHt0/Jg8uH1QK8pc/s700/Bell-47-A1.jpg)

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: carlos marighela on 01 March 2012, 08:41:39 PM

Correction to my previous. The Solido model is actually one of their early plastic kits. Pretty basic by the looks of things but good enough for the gaming table. Needs floats but it is a slightly more comfortable 1/60 scale. If you can find one that is......

This bloke did:

http://www.scale-rotors.com/gallery/utility-helicopters/alouette-ii-solido

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: Brummie Thug on 01 March 2012, 11:24:12 PM

oooo know that you mention it i'm really not sure. A friend of mine over at the Crooked Dice Forums is after one I sent him a link to an ebay bid but I deleted the PM so can't remember. I do random searchs for stuff every so often and its shown up twice.

Your probably right though  ;)

Edit heres one and its a Bell
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Corgi-1-48-Chicago-Police-Dept-Series-H47-Bell-Helicopter-/150768927400?pt=UK_ToysGames_DiecastVehicles_DiecastVehicles_JN&hash=item231a8742a8

Title: Re: What helicopter is this (and can I get it in 28mm)?
Post by: CPT Shanks on 18 March 2012, 02:50:35 PM

The one from the pictures is an Alouette 2. you can tell from the intakes and the exhaust. Plus the canopy fuselage is slightly less rounded than the Bell. But for gaming I'd say either would work fro the project.