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1/48 armor - a missed opportunity?

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  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Sunday, September 23, 2018 4:12 PM

Hello!

You're right on the merits of 1/48 armor, but I think they just missed the train - many modellers (I'm just judging it by myself) probably already have a collection of 1:35 and/or 1:72 models and they hate the idea of doing everything all over again in 1:48. Additionally I heard about the 1:48 HB Shermans being badly mis-shaped... One more thing that I just thought of... - arent the Tamiya babies horribly expensive? Oh well, let them keep trying - thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

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  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Sunday, September 23, 2018 3:54 PM
I think it didn't take off because of lack of diversity in companies and kits,and at first a lack of AM and figures.when they 1st came out in 05-06 they were $20-25 dollars,you could get nice 1/35 Dragon kits for $35-40 crammed with AM. I personally got into armor by the 1/48 route,but ran out of subjects,so When I felt good I jumped to 1/35

  • Member since
    December 2017
1/48 armor - a missed opportunity?
Posted by KyleBragger on Sunday, September 23, 2018 3:44 PM

I spent the weekend thinking about the 1/48 armor market... Was there ever one? Aside from the pretty reasonable amount of Tamiya kits that exist, is anyone else making 1/48 armor en masse? HobbyBoss seems to have a handful of kits, and I found two AFV Club Tigers recently, but it seems like a missed opportunity. Big enough (vs 1/72) where you don't lose tiny details to the perils of small scale, and not so large (vs 1/35) where a few of them take up your entire desk/shelf.

Anyway, just musing. Maybe there's a good reason I'm just not thinking of. (Sort of like plastic colors -- why anyone molds in anything besides gray is beyond me, but that's a post for another day!)

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