What’s in The Box: OH-6 Loach
August 9, 2013 by warzan
Warren gets a look at the OH-6 Loach from the guys at Battlefront Miniatures, both him and Gareth both seem to love these little scout choppers, and best of all its a full plastic kit!
Here’s the run down on what you can win:
Prize 1: US Rifle Company
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
2 x Rifle Platoon VUS712
1 x Machine gun Platoon VUS708
1 x Mortar Platoon VUS705
Dice and Tokens VE003 VE004
Crashed Huey VE107
Loach VUSBX04
Prize 2: PAVN Army
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
Dice and Objective VE002 VE101
Infantry HQ VPABX06
Infantry VPABX07
Weapons Company VPABX08
Divisional Fire Support VPABX09
Local Forces Company VPABX10
To win all you have to do is comment on anything that we send out this week and at the end we’ll pull all the comments in to one big pot and pick two winners before announcing them on not this coming Weekender but the one following it.
So get commenting and enjoy the week!
Not a proper US chopper
Not named after a First Nation 😛
the UH-1 was called the Iroquois for example.
The Cobra is apparently named after the not well known Cobra tribe in some remote part of Wyoming though I have reservations about that.
“though I have reservations”
Was that a pun I just spotted there?!??!
But of course! I don’t just throw this rubbish together, Warren, it takes time and effort.
Hmmm something amiss about that somehow! lol
Technically the OH-6 was named the Cayuse, but the pilots gave it the nickname LOACH (a play on LOH) later on.
cf my post below with the video 😉
I think if I were playing this I would go for the PAVN as I love the sound of all the ambush tactics but those choppers are awesome
Looks nice, but bring on the big guns!
I like the fact that it has no move stat, making it a real fast scout.
Is it just me that wants to paint one of these like the helicopter in Magnum PI?
You wanna make it look like an ice-crea,? 😛
ice-cream even
Curse you lack of edit button
So I’m not the only one considering a Magnum PI paintjob…. 😀
great looking kit… and there’s TWO in the box!!!
That is an awesome little kit and would be great to make They were a very brave flight crew that went up in those to play FAC. There is not a lot of helicopter between you and the incoming fire.
AFAIK the Cayuse wasn’t used for FAC.
O-1 Bird Dogs, Cessna O-2 and later the Northrop O-10 Bronco were utilised in that role.
The name Loach comes from Light Observation Helicopter (LOH)
Any hoo Choppers and cool sounds. Two for the price of one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNFKz6ohpaw
These are also perfect for a special ops Black Hawk down type senario with Special Forces sittin on the sleds
I think its very cool that Battlfront designs and includes magnets in their kits, its a very nice touch.
Really good looking plastic kit once again. Hopefully in the future we’ll see more BF range in plastic.
I’m really liking the plastic kits, its a shame they haven’t got one for the Huey.
I really like the Helicopter rules in TOD and can see the Loach zipping around marking and preventing ambushes.
I would like to see more of the Battlefront range in plastic too. With the success of their awesome Open Fire starter set, I think they’d be crazy not to expand further into the world of plastics (surprised that the late war US Parachute Rifle Company box set isn’t all in plastic now after Open Fire).
They could do a separate Open Fire set for ‘Nam as well!
It was mentioned last night and I believe the response was that it wasn’t something they were looking at now but might in the future.
LOACH came from Light Observation Helicopter, Leave it to the pilots to coin the acronym.
Well, I can see some uses for these. 😀 Thanks for including choppers in the review section.
so anyone have a link to a decent vid on how to paint windows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twr1LkSLaa0
hth
😛
HAHA Thanks guess I did walk into that one : )
Sorry
Sometimes you know you shouldn’t but you do despite yourself :*)
Very nice litlle piece of kit. Besides, who can resist the chopper from ‘magnum’? Good to know TOD is now a primary system and will get regular support!
Both sides look very nice – the Americans get the cool toys, but the PAVN sounds like they have an interesting play style.
Looks like a great set!
Nice model, I wondering how you could make the rotor as if it is spinning, anybody got an idea?
Saw one yesterday. Nice little chopper.
Wil there be a full batrep this weekend?
I’ve got many ideas for uses for this kit – lovely stuff.
A lovely kit, wasn’t thinking about using them, but the kit looks too good almost to not expand have an Air Cav list.
Awesome. More plastic kits. And a nice one at that. I love it. But I just can’t help myself, being a also starcraft nerd, to hear a Korean saying “Roach”, when they talk about this chopper.
well well when i look to this kit and remember warrens usa plans then i hope dave will bring some good aa guns and antitankguns. Iam really looking forward to a game between the two.