Venom/Viper Pilots & Door Gunners | Armorama™

system · April 23, 2026, 9:39am

R2 Miniatures has several new sets of pilots and door gunners released. Check them out, they are a work of art.

This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/venom-viper-pilots-door-gunners

Dukw · April 24, 2026, 1:57pm

Nice. But unfortunaltely not my scale. I Hope they will do this stuff in 1/48. My Super Station will love IT

HeavyArty · April 24, 2026, 2:24pm

These look very nice and are my scale. I really like teh seated/gunners and Y pilots. I may have to get a set for the Academy Y.

Newtonk · April 24, 2026, 7:42pm

Agreed, that kneeling gunner set up with the minigun, ammo chute, & ammo box sells it for me, but I don’t need another project… because I would need to add the pilots, too. Which are fantastic in their own right.

I did contemplate a two Huey build with a Y against a C to use the MRC huey gunship in the stash.

Zavod3D · April 25, 2026, 1:25am

Very nice figures indeed. But… THESE GUYS STOLE MY MINIGUN OFF CULTS3D!!!

I have a shop at Cults3D where I offer STLs for printing, and one of them is a pretty detailed minigun I made for a friend: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/m134d-minigun

These models are strictly for personal use, but it looks like R2 Miniatures can’t read license agreements. They altered the handgrips and brass chute slightly to represent a different version, but all the other details match exactly. There’s a small error in my 3D model that’s also present in these screen shots (see below), so I’m absolutely certain it’s my model.

There’s a screenshot on their Facebook page in which you can see how they grafted new bits onto my existing brass chute:

Now here’s the real smoking gun. In my model, one of the rivets/screws on the control unit had a small Boolean operation error and turned out as a dimple (the bottom one in the picture):