LSP_Ray

Dang! Taping again?

I think they are included in the new, late version if you can talk anyone out of some.

I got lucky as it came up on sale at Squadron or Sprue Brothers some weeks back, forget which.

Yup. Forgot to list the manufacturers: 1. 1/16th Trumpeter JagdPanther 2. 1/8th Hasegawa Fokker Dr.I 3. 1/200 Trumpeter Bismark 4. 1/16th Monogram 1967 Corvette 5. 1/72nd Fine Molds Millenium Falcon

1. 1/16th JagdPanther 2. 1/8th Fokker Dr.I 3. 1/200 Bismark 4. 1/16th !967 Corvette 5. 1/72nd Millenium Falcon Sorry, more than 3, but I need to finish one of each genre!

Definitely!!!

That looks nice!

He was the first to offer 120mm or 1/15th vehicles. I think some of the European companies, like Andrea, offered figures in that scale before him. 120mm scale means the height of a typical figure in scale. If you use 5'-11", it is almost exactly 1/15th scale. I do not remember what height they were supposed to be representing, but 5'-11" might actually be a little tall for most historical periods, even WWII, but it works. In 1/16, 5'-11" would be just under 113mm.

What Kev said.

Why landfill? I don't understand what is wrong from the pics.

I believe 120mm scale was, and still is I think, a figure scale. The Verlinden large armor stuff was actually 1/15th scale and NOT interchangeable with 1/16th as it is noticeably larger. I found that out the hard way. I still have some of their kits, though, as they had stuff no one else makes in 1/16th.

Yup, looks like they screwed up the striping.

Yup, knew that, but couldn't resist. You know what they say, 'Every one's a comedian.'

Thierry is correct! The first Panther had nothing to do with what you can find anywhere now. They had a completely different logo, too. And BTW, if by some stroke of luck you find one of the above Panther kits, Tamiya is looking for a copy for its company museum as no one thought to keep a copy! They would pay big bucks for one assuming they haven't found one yet.

Article is posted! Great work as always, Mike!