I've pre-ordered the Corgi US35906 'Ocean Hawk'

So, I've gone and pre-ordered the Corgi SH-60F "Dusty Dogs" Ocean Hawk despite its generally negative reviews from the various die cast peanut galleries (because the model Corgi appears to have created conflates elements of B and F model SH-60s).  While if the nay-sayers turn out to be correct, there's always a chance that this model will be dumped for a song at some point in the future, the pre-order price at which I purchased this was well discounted off Corgi's RRP, so I decided to go for it.  While I have pre-ordered several HM and one or two CW aircraft before, this is the first Corgi aircraft that I can remember pre-ordering.

So, why did I do it?  Let me count the ways.

• If you're going to bet on a consistently good range of diecast aircraft, bet on Corgi's helicopters.  Arguably the worst one that I have in my whole collection is their USCG HH-60 Jayhawk, and it's an excellent model!
• Back when I participated in the various diecast discussion forums, I wrote a post challenging Corgi to do a few things to improve their prospects.  One of my recommendations was to do a modern USN carrier helicopter to complement CW's aircraft, since the closest they had at the time was the Apollo 11 recovery  SH-3D, which is clearly one of their more desirable and rare models. They did it, and I'm happy to put my money behind their rising to this challenge.
• It's a limited edition of only 500.  While it probably will be available for some time, I know this is one that I want and I'll be kicking myself if I were to not get it.
• It will look great next to my CW modern carrier aircraft.
• I really don't care about the sorts of small version issues that others are complaining about.  If you care, then more power to you.  I just don't.  To me, it looks close enough, and I also realize that it's highly unlikely that we'll see anything similar anytime soon. So, this is your chance.

Incidentally, there is a diecast company that has a pretty decent looking (at least from a distance) SH-60 - that's NewRay.  Unfortunately, they also did it in a useless 1/60 scale.