Finding models of familiar tanks, and learning different variations of them, was relatively easy. The thing is, however, I am a completionist. A massive completionist. If I have the opportunity to start something, I will not rest until it is finished. If I can't finish it, I won't start it. And they all have to be the same scale.
I have over 100 different favourites.
So, my quest to find all 100 of my favourites, all in the same scale, began. That was over two years ago. Real life got in the way, but I never really gave up on the project.
It was only last month that I found this site, and along with it models of just about all my favourite vehicles. The problem is that a lot of them contain multiples, while I'm looking for maybe at most one or two. This massive project though is, according to my calculations, is going to total over $800. Is there a way I could put a custom order in?
For the record, here is my master list. Note that its categories are screwed up; this is intentional.
I also am looking at specific models, in the same scale, that I can't seem to find. The second page (the GHQ model page) details which models are available and which scale they're in. I was specifically wanting to see if it was possible to add to the models:
- The Vickers Wellington and the Avro Lancaster - I noticed there are no RAF strategic bombers anywhere, at GHQ or anywhere else.
- The Horten Ho-229. It's...probably a bit of a stretch since it was a prototype that never really saw combat, but it was the first flying wing I saw and that's why it's on my list.
- The Type 1 Ho-Ha for the IJA. I understand that, like the Ho-229, it didn't see a lot of production, but it's the closest thing you'll find I think to a Japanese M3 Halftrack
- Mk VII Tetrarch. I never even knew that tanks could be flown in via gliders until I saw these things in Company of Heroes.
- Kyushu J7W Shinden was a prototype, but just about every game in the Pacific I know of makes some reference to this pusher prop fighter.
- Nakajima J1N Gekko
- Super Yamato - I'm surprised there's a Montana class, but no Super Yamato class.
Anyway, that's what I got. Ambitious and costly, but it's something I really want to both start and finish sometime.
