Most of my experience in buying 1/18th scale vehicles tend to be Joe/Cobra vehicles, from Hasbro. There are many excellent photos posted here with other brands of vehicles. So much so that I am now looking at other brands.

Recently I bought a 21st Century Navy SEAL Tactical Jeep and I'm impressed with the details of it. The plastics are of the type that takes to paint very nicely, so customizing and weathering is friendly. So now I am looking at Hummers, WWII German armored tracked vehicles, half-tracks, an ME-262, and others. But with various brands out there, which ones would you recommend?

For example, there's several companies doing Hummers, desert versions. Looking at the humvees on this page:
http://smalljoes.com/cgi-bin/pgen.c...tId=61&Start=24
and this page:
http://smalljoes.com/cgi-bin/pgen.c...tId=61&Start=48
Which ones is worth buying? Is it friendly to Joe scale? Doors open? Wheels turn or rotate?

So, I'm curious, which brand would you most recommend, and which (hasbro and non-hasbro) vehicle do you feel is essential to get?

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