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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!

$121.00! Sorry, couldn't resist.

Seriously, Tamiya wrote 1/35th gave the proper width to fit batteries and motor into a Panther lower hull. They were a ways away from thinking about figures yet.

I have mentioned this before, but I think it is purely an error. Reading Tamiya's book on their history, they claim 1/35th came from the dimension required for the batteries to fit, width-wise, in the lower hull of their first armor kit, the Panther. And as Tamiya always stuck with one scale for their different models in a series (their earliest models were of ships and they were praised for keeping them in one scale, not 'box scale'), they stuck with 1/35th. But I do not believe it. For one, there was already early tank models out there in 1/32nd by Airfix and Monogram and if they were that worried about keeping things in a same scale, you would think they would have picked 1/32. Also, if you were that worried about fitting in batteries and motors, why would you base the scale on one of the largest tanks you will model? To make the point, their first Panzer IV kit was also motorized and the lower hull is too wide to get the batteries to fit! If they had gone 1/32nd, I believe it would fit. So, 1/35 was a mistake all around. Having said that, I bought one of the first, if not the first, 1/35 aircraft: the Pend Oreille Bf 109G-6 kit as I wanted to be able to do a dio with 1/35th figures and vehicles.

Article is posted! Great job!

Very nice! Looks like a big step up from the classic Monogram 1/48th kit!

Beautiful! This one is going onto the website, too!

Turned out splendid, Kev!

I agree with Ron. Would never see panel lines in that scale.

Article is posted! Great job!

Looking at your pic of the real thing, it looks like whoever drew the instructions got the set upside down.

1.) Corsair. Even though I probably couldn't see the runway in front of me with that big nose. 2.) P-38L for that twin engine goodness plus with the tricycle gear I can see in front of me! 3.) F-86F.

Neat stuff. Some of the prices aren't too bad. The items I looked at were $10 for 20 fittings, and PE washers $8 for a pack of 168. Some of the fittings are $1 to $1.50 each though; that would add up!