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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
We need aftermarket for 1:144
Posted by Don Stauffer on Monday, June 4, 2012 8:58 AM

I have started planning a couple of 1:144 projects- a Boeing 307 and a Republic XR-12.  I bought a sale priced B-17 to use parts for the 307, but boy, I sure can't find much usable out there for the XR-12.  There is a ton of aftermarket stuff out there for 1:72, 1:48, and 1:32.  Not much for 1:144 though.  Hopefully as more kits are available for the scale, more of the aftermarket stuff will follow.  We need engines, wheels and landing gear, and props.

I am doing all commercial stuff smaller than DC-3 in 1:72, but everything DC-3 and larger in 1:144 scale now.  Otherwise the collection of built stuff- already large- would take over my house!

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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    September 2004
  • From: Utereg
Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Friday, June 8, 2012 6:37 AM

Brengun makes some stuff in 1/144, but it is not much:

http://www.aviationmegastore.com/search/LM4f7576684eb5464b2e62aceb9e/_/p0/c/s144/f3069

 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, June 8, 2012 9:40 AM

Borg R3-MC0

Brengun makes some stuff in 1/144, but it is not much:

http://www.aviationmegastore.com/search/LM4f7576684eb5464b2e62aceb9e/_/p0/c/s144/f3069

 

Thanks, I was not aware of them.   They don't have much applicable to civil aircraft, though. I use 1:144 mostly for airliners.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: South Carolina
Posted by dullcote on Friday, July 13, 2012 6:58 AM

I would love to see more AM items in this scale for ships as well as AC

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, July 13, 2012 9:03 AM

Might be a tough one.  1:144 is not a popular ship scale.  There are a lot of 1:192 and 1:96 scale accessories, not much between.  Probably should be- that is quite a gap.  The 1:192 is, of course 1/16 inch per foot, the 1:96 is 1/8 per foot.  Lets see, what is 3/32 per foot?  I get 1:128.  There seems to be a tradition in scratch ship modelers of using architectural scales (such and such a fraction of inch per foot).

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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