Deutschland überall?

[Guest]

Seemingly straightforward questions that may provoke an interesting discussion.

- Would I be wide of the mark to suggest that German aircraft/vehicles of World War 2 seem to make up a disproportionately large sector of the modelling world, given over 100 years of worldwide aviation and 90-odd of armoured warfare?

- If that is the case, why might that be?

[BarryW]

That mottle camo perhaps and the wide range of schemes!!

[Guest]

I think for armour its the wide range of subjects - there are many many more different types of German tanks than there are Allied.

For aircraft I don't think there is so much disparity.

What I personally don't understand is why are there so many sets of German soldier figures in comparison to British. Then again there are lots of Russian figures - but I think thats down to Eastern European companies producing for the local market.

[AlanG]

I tend to like German aircraft because they are more mean looking and always seem to have big guns on them. Where as allied aircraft generally tend to be more sleek/graceful and pleasing on the eye.

[Ian M]

It's a pain in'it Matt!

One of the biggest reasons is that the manufactures produce to meet the market. Where ever the market is strongest is the way they will go. They are in it after all to make money. We will just have to accept that until Mr Airfix (as the only main line kit producers in the UK) wake up and smell the roses, or money in this case.

I think one thing we can all agree on; the British Armed forces are pretty poorly represented in plastic!

Ian M

[geegad]

With Armour of the second world war yhe germans had so many different version of one tank take the Mark IIV for many reasons up armour up the gun that's one of the reasons that they lost the war unlike the British they had a few models but not many variations and manly used us tanks and the same for the ruskys Geegad

[AlanG]

I think one thing we can all agree on; the British Armed forces are pretty poorly represented in plastic!

Apart from the Spitfire lol

[Guest]

I wasn't particularly complaining about it, it just struck me as curious.

[geegad]

Oh no I totally agree I would love to build more uk/u.s I must say in 1/35 afv there are more coming out but not the figures to go with them which is a shame

[Guest]

While I'm asking pointless noob questions, why is it 1/72 for aircraft and 1/76 for things on the ground, as a general rule? I mean, I know there's a fair amount of 1/72 ground stuff around, but the scales are surely so close to each other that you wonder why there are two at all.

I mean, could you place a 1/72 aircraft in a 1/76 scene and it look OK? Like a tank crew passing a crashed aircraft or something - or would the plane look comically oversized?

[stona]

Hi Brickie,no such thing as a pointless question! 1/72 scale is simply a convenient old imperial measurement scale where 1" equals 6'.

1/76 is the 00 railway scale. I've no idea how they arrived at this figure.

I've put 00 (1/76) figures in a diorama with two 1/72 aircraft and think that the scale variation was within acceptable margins. They were actually boy scouts adjusted to be Luftwaffe airmen. It's just a couple of guys around 5'8" rather than 6'!!

As far as aircraft go I don't think there is much disparity between German and Western allied representation. The Japanese are better represented now due to the rise of Japanese companies and the Asian market. If anyone is under represented it is the Soviets.

Cheers

Steve