The large-scale-bug. Bitten.

[Rick Griewski]

8 hours ago, Pup7309 said:

Some funny replies IMO It depends on the a/c. 48 scale feels like 72 did as a kid. 32 scale is more museum scale and impressive to me. Personally I rarely build a kit with over 40cm wingspan due to space issues. 

I know what you mean about large wing span.  I am planning to build two display cases for my twin engine models.  Along with this comes serious negotiations with my wife for space next to her studio.  My angle is that my models are art and will look great displayed near her paintings. 

[Squizzy 78]

Bigger is better! Aircraft has to be 1/32, the only aircraft kit I have that’s 1/48 is the B1-b bomber, which is still massive. And for a break from aircraft, it’s 1/200 battleships! 

[Rick Griewski]

13 hours ago, The Phantom said:

Bought the 1/16 Panther. Its pretty awesome.

My next will be the Luchs then the Stewart.    These are smaller models. My twin engine aircraft have the display space priority

[Neo]

I have a decent amount of both 1/48 and 1/32. I do tend to follow this pattern. 

 

WWII single prop(1/32 and 1/24)

Jets and twins 1/48

Im actually building a Hasegawa tomcat at the moment. And i just finished a 1/32 TBM-3

 

I have 2 1/32 jets but ive been to scared todo them. They are su huge and take so much space im putting the bar on perfection really hight

 

 

[europapete]

Only 8 WNW's Gaz???? Real men have 42. Regards,Pete in RI

[europapete]

On 11/14/2020 at 6:09 AM, Stevepd said:

blame the Americans for getting me into 1/32

Why do you think I moved to the USA?

[Gazzas]

11 hours ago, europapete said:

Only 8 WNW's Gaz???? Real men have 42. Regards,Pete in RI

 

Well...  I didn't want any of the mammoth kits.  I have 1 Pfalz D.III.  2 Albatros.  1 Fokker D.VII.  (And one of each already built) and four two-seaters.  I really don't need much more than that as I don't have much room, or a desire to have many variations on the same kit.  Oh, I forgot the two Meng Dr.I 

 

And the rest of the single seaters I don't have...  I don't want. 

 

I was really hoping for more early war fighters from WNW...  but it wasn't to be.

[Rockie Yarwood]

15 hours ago, europapete said:

Only 8 WNW's Gaz???? Real men have 42. Regards,Pete in RI

Damn, Pete, I'm not half the man that you are - I only have 18!

 

Cheers,

 

Rockie

[Basta]

7 hours ago, Gazzas said:

 

Well...  I didn't want any of the mammoth kits.  I have 1 Pfalz D.III.  2 Albatros.  1 Fokker D.VII.  (And one of each already built) and four two-seaters.  I really don't need much more than that as I don't have much room, or a desire to have many variations on the same kit.  Oh, I forgot the two Meng Dr.I 

 

And the rest of the single seaters I don't have...  I don't want. 

 

I was really hoping for more early war fighters from WNW...  but it wasn't to be.

Where is your imagination man?! The English pushers, the Taube, the HBs, the Roland, the AEG... --all the offbeat and all the early contraptions? That's what I loved about WNW, the quirkiness. 

 

Those you listed were the last WNW kits I came round to getting, just before the fall. They're the 109s and P51s of WW1 and it took me a long time to warm up to them, but luckily I was persistent and found some great schemes for them that won me over. 

 

Oh and as for scale, 1:32 is perfect for WW1 and WW2 fighters, but 1:48 better suits most bombers and multi-engined planes, and a few modern jets like the Su27 which are just too massive to display in 32.

 

Easy rule of thumb: when the plane becomes bigger than the table it will be displayed on, it's time to drop the scale a notch. 

[europapete]

Hhmmm........I may need to consider that. 1/32 Felixstowe, Gotha Giv, G1, UWD, AEG, 1/200 HMS Hood, 1/72 Flower Class, Gato, Great Lakes Ore carrier with hull extensions ( a commission build, but it still has to sit SOMEWHERE!! LOL)  good job the old bench is 8' long. 

Edited November 17, 2020 by europapete
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