mebbe like what others said... high demand at allscript office that they didn't have enough to send out to the retail stores. don't think they're skipping. perhaps waiting for restock before they send out since i don't see any other issues (issue#5-#8) out there either.

yups... berlambak lambak issue#3. hence my conclusion hc not generating as much interest as fac.

i think pasal it was only rm9.90, and also because of this movie: Black Hawk Down

otherwise the blackhawk so so only...

haha... strangely me quite the opposite. when i first saw the blackhawk, eventhough it was only rm9.90, i didn't bother getting it. perhaps it was out of my frustration not being able to get my hands on the latest fac issue then (the bookstore manager said, "why don't you buy this helicopter mag instead" after having gone back to the boostore for the third time in as many weeks and being told for the third time that no new issues for the fac had arrived). to be honest, don't quite fancy choppers...

it was only when i went to allscript's office to get the fac issues and saw the other HUGE choppers in the series that i thought it wasn't such a bad deal after all. but by then all the blackhawks had been sold out. although ambika did mention that they will be bringing in additional stock, i'm not holding my breath, especially not after i read about our comrades' experiences dealing with allscript in the past. they may yet surprise me though... but the blackhawk did not make an appearance in my last shipment from them.

This post has been edited by WingNut: Jun 5 2014, 09:36 AM

nope. but it's not a die die must have

hmm... mebbe allscript is waiting for the returns before shipping one to me.

haha... true also! then i lor... another missing link in my collection. but may go for selected models after my first 10 issues subscription fulfilled...

yups! would be strange for fighters aircraft to be gunning down civies...

you saw my target lock list or not? me gunning for the military choppers also...

not that many military choppers out there anyway, and even fewer attack choppers... and they generally have long production lifespans. the choppers have rather distinct roles from fixed wing aircraft, so i guess it is only natural that they ended up in sar/logistics ops.

but i'm not really familiar with choppers. mind sharing what other models you were hoping to be included in the series? personally, i'm satisfied with what's on offer according to the uk edition (although i would've preferred the apache and the apache longbow compared to the puma and super puma).

This post has been edited by WingNut: Jun 5 2014, 04:58 PM

ya lor, only 13 pages also didn't read. didn't use search function also...

yups, that's what i thought. the uk series pretty comprehensive already.

my eurocopter tiger didn't have any problems with its rotors, but i had problems with my mil mi4a rotors. nothing a little glue couldn't resolve, though. guess the problem is not model dependent, but item specific.

i suppose the lynx (issue #9) and the whirlwind (issue #10) are up next?

yups, that's what ambika told me about issue #1 too... the oos part. as for just reordering, she told me that too... early last month. so they've either only just re-ordered, or it's all a whole lot of bull hoping that the retailers return some (hopefully undamaged) for her to include in my next shipment (hopefully too she doesn't resell it to other walk-in customers).

agreed... the apache has always been my favourite chopper! damn ganas looking.

ya la, silly me. the guy at the bookstore i usually went to kept telling me issue #1 only rm9.90 wor. and i said i want my fac (no new issues for two whole months), not start a new collection. a trip to allscript changed all that...

and yes, 1:72 choppers seriously eat up your display space in no time. at max i can fit in five choppers on a billy bookcase shelf (it's a little better if there are no doors. you can let the rotors protrude out that way). but got myself a couple of detolfs already... just need to find the time to assemble them.

my guess is you american-ised also? the lynx (issue #9) features prominently in the fleet air arm of the british royal navy wor...

hehe... that's called marketing! 'wise nobody wanna subscribe ma. but i know what you mean... the free gifts should also come with their corresponding magazines. with the fac it was different coz the free gifts were from a different collection, but with the helicopter collection, the free gifts should've come with their magazines.

my first face to face encounter with the huey was at the ms saigon musical

anyway, if you get a few, then you could do a diorama on a saigon dz ala we were soldiers.

that thought did occur to me too... but without the rotors, the choppers look emasculated. the cobra with its double bladed rotor is the easiest to display. at the moment i had to rearrange (read: squeeze) all my fac's to make way for the choppers. they're really really huge...

colin98, care to share where you got the apache from? many in this thread looking for the apache.