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How many of you would like to see more 1/35 scale aircraft?

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How many of you would like to see more 1/35 scale aircraft?
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 8:34 AM
I've noticed quite a few new 1/32 scale kits released in the last year, and a couple more are on the wayBig Smile [:D], but I sure would like to see some of the big boys from Japan come out with a line of 1/35 aircraft. It just seems like such an obvious thing to do. What with most armor being in 1/35 not to mention all of the accessories/personnel. I recall seeing a few 1/35 scale aircraft but they were few and far between.

I'd pay real money (I'd pretty much have to) for a 1/35 Tamiya/Hasegawa bf 109, P-51, Spitfire, me262 or a Stuka. Heck, any of these are great sellers in any scale already. Seems like a win-win for a manufacturer (and the die-hard diorama dudes).

Thoughts?

-fish
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Posted by rossjr on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 8:41 AM
Actually, I think 1/32nd scale aircraft have been around a bit longer than 1/35th scale armor. To me this is just like the hot dog and bun issue..... 10 hot dogs, 8 buns.... To me this was the biggest mistake the industry has made, but I can't help but think it was on purpose....$$$$$
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 8:54 AM
They should just start making 1/32 armors.
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Posted by ckfredrickson on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 10:09 AM
I don't think it'll happen because I don't see it as being that obvious... how often is a tank sitting next to a plane on the flight line (which most wooden bases end up resembling)? Unless you're doing a diorama of a crash, airshow, or museum, I have a hard time envisioning the need for them to be side by side.

Helos, on the other hand, could easily be envisioned next to a tank, and are (sometimes, though more often than airplanes) available in 1/35 scale.

I'd personally like to see more flightline vehicles (jeeps, humvees, misc. cars and trucks) in the airplane scales, and would guess that this is the way things would go (if they went).
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Posted by styrene on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 11:06 AM
Why not just leave things the way they are. Unless I'm totally wrong, 12" (1foot) in 1/35=0.3429", while 12" in 1/32=0.375", a whopping difference of 0.033". A tank 30 feet long would be 10.3 inches in length, while a 30 foot airplane would be 11.25 inches long, a difference of 0.96". That's hardly enough to make any drastic manufacturing changes. Looks to me as if the scales are so close that only a bombastic dyed-in-the-wool rivet counter would call the model police. Just my 2 cents worth (at 1:1 scale).
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Posted by John P on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 11:41 AM
Nah. But I wouldn't mind a few airfield accessory vehicles in 1/32 and 1/48 - fuel trucks, jeeps, motorcycles.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 12:01 PM
I like 1/35 for vehicles, and as styrene pointed out there isn' t a huge difference between 1/35 and 1/32 anyway.

I would really like to see some 1/48 scale vehicles. I just don't have room to build much 1/32 a/c but it would be nice to have some 1/48 scale vehicles to be able to use in smaller dios.


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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 4:33 PM
For myself "the larger the scale the better regardless of what I'm building".
It's not the bigger the better idea either. Its an eye thing. Well to be totaly truthful its an "I'm gettint old and cant see the small parts thing". I like the detail and small Oops are easyer to fix hide the bigger the kit.
The hand is't as seady. I have nothing but prase for thoses of you who can take a 1/72 scale Tomcat and make it look like a work of art. Those of you who do 1/144 A/C and air brush weathering and details astound me.
I would realy like to see more armor in 1/24 & 1/25 scale.
Anyway thats my two bits on the subject.
Enjoy your build.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 4:35 PM
Wink [;)] i would like to see some of the bigger bombers
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Posted by r13b20 on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 6:27 PM
bigger bigger bigger can be better! (imho) but than again armor should be bigger for those of us with sausage fingers!
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Posted by Cobrahistorian on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 6:33 PM
Hey guys,

The difference between 1/32 and 1/35 is large enough to notice, believe it or not. I've got both the 1/32 AH-64A by Revell and the 1/35 AH-64D by Imex/Kangnam, and there is a difference of an inch or better in length and the overall dimensions are considerably smaller. In a forced-perspective diorama, it'd work perfectly, but as a comparison between the two models, it wasn't going to work for me, so I decided to convert another Revell kit (the older, but better kit) to an AH-64D.

Just my $.02
"1-6 is in hot"
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