Tomahawk
"The Tomahawk II medium lift helicopter provides the Joe team with a highly capable and dynamic workhorse, suitable for transport, assault, rescue, and other tasks. It is crewed by a pilot, a copilot/gunner, typically two side gunners, and optionally a loadmaster; and can carry over a dozen troops into battle. Two side doors and a rear ramp offer quick loading and offloading of supplies or personnel. Defensive weaponry comprises a 20mm multibarrel cannon in a chin turret, two side-mounted 7.62mm machine guns, six bombs, and a pair of air to air or anti radiation missiles."
I never had a Tomahawk as a kid, and I always regretted not buying one when I had a chance. In addition to being an awesome vehicle all around, it would have come in handy so many times when I was playing with my Joes and they needed to insert or extract a patrol behind enemy lines. Maybe I over romanticize the things I never had, but rate the Tomahawk as one of the best G.I.Joe vehicles ever.
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The Tomahawk was an essential piece of Joe hardware that I have wanted to build for a long time. But like the Cobra Anaconda chopper, which I tackled last year, I had avoided it til because of its overall complexity and specifically because I wasn't sure how to design the cockpit. I finally came up with a cockpit solution I was happy enough with this fall, and got underway properly in December.
The rotors are motorized, which was challenging and fun, as always!
As for other details, the rotors fold, so as to take up as little space as possible, and the wheels all have suspension. There is a rear ramp, side doors, and side gunner hatches. There is a winch that runs through a trapdoor in the bottom of the helicopter, and an interior red light.
Tomahawk
"The Tomahawk II medium lift helicopter provides the Joe team with a highly capable and dynamic workhorse, suitable for transport, assault, rescue, and other tasks. It is crewed by a pilot, a copilot/gunner, typically two side gunners, and optionally a loadmaster; and can carry over a dozen troops into battle. Two side doors and a rear ramp offer quick loading and offloading of supplies or personnel. Defensive weaponry comprises a 20mm multibarrel cannon in a chin turret, two side-mounted 7.62mm machine guns, six bombs, and a pair of air to air or anti radiation missiles."
I never had a Tomahawk as a kid, and I always regretted not buying one when I had a chance. In addition to being an awesome vehicle all around, it would have come in handy so many times when I was playing with my Joes and they needed to insert or extract a patrol behind enemy lines. Maybe I over romanticize the things I never had, but rate the Tomahawk as one of the best G.I.Joe vehicles ever.
www.yojoe.com/vehicles/86/tomahawk/
The Tomahawk was an essential piece of Joe hardware that I have wanted to build for a long time. But like the Cobra Anaconda chopper, which I tackled last year, I had avoided it til because of its overall complexity and specifically because I wasn't sure how to design the cockpit. I finally came up with a cockpit solution I was happy enough with this fall, and got underway properly in December.
The rotors are motorized, which was challenging and fun, as always!
As for other details, the rotors fold, so as to take up as little space as possible, and the wheels all have suspension. There is a rear ramp, side doors, and side gunner hatches. There is a winch that runs through a trapdoor in the bottom of the helicopter, and an interior red light.