No osik, there I was... on a recce deep in WalMartanian territory looking for fresh spore. Our AO hasn't seen activity in three weeks, but it's the one time you slack up that something waltzes through your back door and puts your shebs on a platter. So I was out there, doing my thing, re-clearing the same old Habsrovian traces we'd been watching. Satisfied there was nothing new, I settled in to study the armored car in the Cap line. Pretty neat, looks like an old WWII M8/M20 Greyhound armored car and I was tempted. Sorely tempted. Then I let my gaze drift a bit further to where the smaller 4x4 strikers were stored.
And there was something new. Something glorious.
Sitting there in plain sight were two of the new, never-before-seen Liberty Jets.
It was too good to pass up, so I scooped one for use back on-station. Now, this is no serious review, but I just wanna pass the word that these babies are HOT! Air-intakes big enough to swallow a DUM. Twin ducted fans - pivoting in unison - that could chew up an errant protocol tinny. A LARGE cockpit that could arguably seat a Gamorrean. A flip-down primary landing gear. A ventral weapon station with twin firing barrels. Yeah, it had a pilot, all fancied up in some di'kutla red, white, and blue outfit, but I slotted him in short order.
The surface detailing is nice and clean. Without the gun-turret, this baby could pass for an unarmed civvie model. Did I mention it looks muscly? No? This baby screams SPEED! just sitting still.
Cockpit detail is sparse - meaning no control yoke. In fact, there's NO panel details at all. I suppose a decal from a HISS tank would provide a fair enough mockup, if you want. Of course, HB94 could just P/S in the most glorious controls ever imagined and call it good - and DG is without a doubt gonna light this baby up like downtown Triple-Zero during Fete Week. Spook, DW, and Tamer are likely to see some Hothie goodness in this one, painted up in a pale gray with an AT-AT Driver at the controls - and they'd make it look GOOD.
But I gotta say ... may the Powers That Be have mercy on the di'kute who put a shabla SKINNY in that cockpit!!
