Spots on the Internet (2023)

[Guest]

All we need then is a 1:35 scale early CH-53 … And about a cubic metre of space for the diorama.

[Dave Ward]

On the Arma Hobby Facenook page = boxart etc for their Hurricane IID


On the Special Hobby Facebook page - an upcoming release - This has the Academy Ju87 G-1 sprues, with PE & 3d printed parts from SH


Dave

[Dave Ward]

From MiniArt - new kit coming soon

Dave

[David Lovell]

On the Arma Hobby Facenook page = boxart etc for their Hurricane IID
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On the Special Hobby Facebook page - an upcoming release - This has the Academy Ju87 G-1 sprues, with PE & 3d printed parts from SH
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Dave

What a great looking little kit keep telling myself to man up and do a wingy thing ,not afraid of diving in more getting my head around accepting the first few won't live up to expectations were see I've got a airfix zero in the stash so if their have me a good excuse to join the upcoming Japanese gb. Dave

[AlanG]

[rtfoe]

Nice classic one to get. Funny how they named manufacturers then...shouldn't it be Slowspeed? Or should it be Gliderspeed. :smiling2:

Cheers,
Wabble

[AlanG]

1/35 Border Fw190 A6 coming 2023

[David Lovell]

1/35 Border Fw190 A6 coming 2023

I dont really know why its taken manufacturers this long to to start producing in this scale the cross over population so to speak must be enormous good on em I say. Dave

[adt70hk]

1/35 Border Fw190 A6 coming 2023

I dont really know why its taken manufacturers this long to to start producing in this scale the cross over population so to speak must be enormous good on em I say. Dave

And there we have possibly the biggest shock of the millenium.....Alan finds out a new Würger is being released!!! Who would have thought it!! :smiling5:

Seriously though Dave you have a very good point. I have always thought that the scale choices/splits were a bit odd at the larger scales since I came back to the hobby.

ATB

Andrew

[Dave Ward]

On the Amusing Hobby Facebook page - available February

A variant of the Soviet T-72
Dave

[Guest]

I have always thought that the scale choices/splits were a bit odd at the larger scales since I came back to the hobby.

1:32 is a traditional aircraft scale, but I don’t remember how it came to be. IIRC it has something to do with Revell in the USA in the 1960s deciding to release planes in this scale, but not sure how they got to it. It’s not a convenient inch scale like 1:72, 1:48 or 1:24, for example, which I would kind of expect from Americans. In any case, others followed, and Airfix then decided it was a good scale for military vehicles as well. Which they were probably right with.

However, by the late 1960s, Tamiya introduced 1:35 scale for military vehicles. The reasons for picking that scale differ depending on who you ask, but the one I find most plausible is the story related by Tamiya itself: they wanted to release a motorised Panther tank, and found that to fit two C batteries inside the hull, it would need to be 1:35 scale … Had they thought to make the models fit with the existing line of aircraft kits, 1:32 would probably have become the major military scale, but instead, the decision basically doomed Airfix’s line in not even the long run.

So we came full circle some years ago when Chinese manufacturers began releasing aircraft kits in 1:35. Dragon, Academy and Accurate Armour had put out helicopters in 1:35 in the 1990s, but they always remained niche, IMHO. These new plane kits don’t seem to be as much.

[adt70hk]

1:32 is a traditional aircraft scale, but I don’t remember how it came to be. IIRC it has something to do with Revell in the USA in the 1960s deciding to release planes in this scale, but not sure how to got to it. It’s not a convenient inch scale like 1:72, 1:48 or 1:24, for example, which I would kind of expect from Americans. In any case, others followed, and Airfix then decided it was a good scale for military vehicles as well. Which they were probably right with.

However, by the late 1960s, Tamiya introduced 1:35 scale for military vehicles. The reasons for picking that scale differ depending on who you ask, but the one I find most plausible is the story related by Tamiya itself: they wanted to release a motorised Panther tank, and found that to fit two C batteries inside the hull, it would need to be 1:35 scale … Had they thought to make the models fit with the existing line of aircraft kits, 1:32 would probably have become the major military scale, but instead, the decision basically doomed Airfix’s line in not even the long run.

So we came full circle some years ago when Chinese manufacturers began releasing aircraft kits in 1:35. Dragon, Academy and Accurate Armour had put out helicopters in 1:35 in the 1990s, but they always remained niche, IMHO. These new plane kits don’t seem to be as much.

Thanks Jakko.... Like the battery idea.... Very practical!

[Tim Marlow]

1/32 fits with 54mm figures, which is a traditional toy scale (Britains etc).

[Neil Merryweather]

1/32 fits with 54mm figures, which is a traditional toy scale (Britains etc).

...and it's in the natural progression from 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32- Bingo!

[Andy the Sheep]

I built the motorizable 1/35 Tamiya Panther in the late '70s and it's not strictly 1:35 scale, probably because Tamiya needed space to put batteries, motor and gears inside.
In the pic the Tamiya kit (showing not only the battle wearing I tried to simulate but also the damages inflicted by time, not such a great healer for models ) is on the foreground while the Italeri, a more recent kit, is on the background.


The difference in size is evident and not due to the perspective.

Andrea