Models
Although typical aircraft model kits can be customized and detailed after specific planes in each game, the Ace Combat series also has its fair share of specially produced model kits, with a number of them sold as resin garage kits. In the late 1990s, the garage kit firm Takla Makan Club joined forces with Tokiwa Aircraft Create to produce a 1/144 kit of the XFA-27 Phoenix from Ace Combat 2, following up with the R-101 Delphinus 2 in 1999, and then the ADFX-01/2 Morgan from Ace Combat Zero in 2007. These kits were sold at Japan's Wonder Festival model kit convention.
Hasegawa sold 1/144 resin kits of Ace Combat 3's Delphinus 1 and 3 in December 2000. It continued the trend with a 1:72 F-14 Ace Combat 5 limited-edition kit modeled in a cherry blossom paint scheme in April 2011 and a similarly-scaled kit of Assault Horizon's main superfighter, the ASF-X Shinden II, in July 2012. Various items in the company's line of model aircraft kits are also available in special color schemes depicting characters from The Idolmaster animated series. These schemes are available as downloadable content for Ace Combat 6.
In March 2006, Bandai produced a 1:100 kit of the ADF-01 Falken superfighter from Ace Combat 5.
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