C-17 Globemaster

MegaHobby.com,

has been expecting Panda Models to release one, in 1/72 scale, sometime next year.

I would check with them.

will/might/has

1/72 vacuform C-17 from Combat Models.

They draw a lot of flak here and elsewhere, but the C-17 is buildable with a good deal of work.

Tom

Thanks for the reply Guy's.

This has helped. Also another model site to add to my fav list.

That's going to be one hell of a kit in 72nd

Also has anyone been watching Discovery Home and Leisure on Sky about the Making of a 1/9th Radio Controlled C-17?

4 Jet Engines!!!! Nice

Cant wait to see that sucker fly!

Spence

The C-17 is buildable from a big block of basswood with a good deal of work, too..... ;-p

Were there 2 Globemasters? C-17 and C-124? I was a radio repairman on the C-124 Globemaster at HAFB in GA. Would like to find a set of drawings for the C-124.

will/might/has

No, there were actually 3. The C-74 was the first one. The C-17 is actually called the "Globemaster III".

Hey! It's better than their Landing Craft. That's the one where you chuck the plastic and build the LC literally "out of the box".

:-)

Tom

it doesn't have a C-124 plan but a recent edition of the USAF yearbook [well back to 1996, i can't remember which year] did have a good article on the C-17 and its Globemaster name using predecessors including the C-124.

i'll look to see at home which year it was and post up early in 2004.

trevor

Technically, there were 3 Globemasters and the current version is the C-17 Globemaster III. The first was the C-74 but I do not believe it progressed much beyond the prototype stage. As such, the II from the C-124 Globemaster II was normally dropped.

Pat

According to Fahey there were 14 C-74s procured. They were ordered in '42 and delivered in '46.

Bill Banaszak, MFE