March 23, 2025

Preview: The FAMO 18t & the large-scale gunship Chinook from Trumpeter in April...

The FAMO 18t & the large-scale gunship Chinook are the two kits featured in Trumpeter's March items. We look at the colours, decals, & built-up kits in our preview...

Preview: The FAMO 18t & the large-scale gunship Chinook from Trumpeter in April...

ACH-47A Armored Chinook 
by Trumpeter
Kit 05113
1/35th scale
The ACH-47A Chinook Guns-A-Go-Go, with a crew of eight, was armed with up to five M2 .50 Cal. or M60D 7.62mm machine guns (four window and one ramp mounted), two fixed-mounted M24A1 20mm cannons, and two M18/M18A1 pod-mounted 7.62mm miniguns, or two 19-tube 2.75-inch rocket launchers, and a chin-mounted 40mm automatic grenade launcher on the M5 armament subsystem. They also featured added armour protection for the crew and some critical components.

The colour scheme presented in this kit and its aircraft
The decals in the box
Masks are provided for this kit also
The three ACH-47As to deploy were 64-13149 - nicknamed "Easy Money", 64-13151 "Stump Jumper," and 64-13154 "Birth Control." The first ACH-47A produced, 64-13145 (later known as "Co$t of Living"), remained in the states for further weapons systems testing at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California. Following the test period, the unit was attached to the 1st Cavalry Division's 228th Assault Support Helicopter Battalion and re-designated as the 1st Aviation Detachment (Provisional). By February 1968, only one of the original four gunships was still flying. "Easy Money," 64-13149, was the only ACH-47A to survive the Vietnam War.

Model Length: 458 mm / Rotor Diameter: 515 mm
Total Parts: 450+
Total of 16 sprues, fuselage and tires
The model built up by Trumpeter's in-house model builders...


Schwerer Zugkraftwagen 18 t Sd.Kfz.9 Artillery Version 
by Trumpeter
Kit No#09575
1/35th scale
Sdkfz.9 is the largest half-track truck that Germany used in World War II, begun to develop in 1936 by the FAMO Company, put out the productive F3 type formally in 1939, 250 horsepower of the Model HL108TUKRM engine, which the car installation Maybach Company of the Model F3 produced. This car has many kinds of becoming-type vehicles.

The colour scheme presented in this kit and its aircraft
The decals in the box
Masks are provided for this kit also
Model Length: 240.5mm, Width: 78.7mm   
Total of 13 sprues, chassis and tires
The kit consists of  over 570 parts
- Details finely represented by newly tooled parts
- Individual tracks links
- Rubber tyres w/fine detail
- photo-etched parts included
The model built up by Trumpeter's in-house model builders...

These kits will soon be on sale through Trumpeter's distributors worldwide...