Border 1/35 Kate

[dennismcc]

This is really sad, all that research, design and investment for a 1/35 kit that most large scale builders will not touch, if they had plumped for 1/32 scale they could have sold as many as they want,

Shame but it saves me money !

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[Iain]

1:35 is a hard pass from me...

 

Iain

[Confusionreigns178]

8 hours ago, LSP_Ron said:

1/35 was a really dumb move. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

Are we talking generally, here? I would think Tamiya and several other makers might disagree on this one... The Japanese manufacturers will always do their best to keep their local market happy. I would theorize that the "Rest of the World" would come a VERY distant second, in their opinion. 

 

Chris. 

[Confusionreigns178]

I seem to remember reading that ICM were planning to produce their new AH-1G kits in both 1/32nd and 1/35th scales. For very obvious reasons, that plan might well be on hold at the moment. 

 

Chris. 

[LSP_Matt]

16 hours ago, Juggernut said:

By the looks of the responses here so far, they'll be losing quite a few....

According to a couple of guys who work in local hobby shops, the 1/35 aircraft kits are very hard to move off the shelves and out the door. 

 

It looks good though

 

Matty

[thierry laurent]

1 hour ago, LSP_Matt said:

According to a couple of guys who work in local hobby shops, the 1/35 aircraft kits are very hard to move off the shelves and out the door. 

 

It looks good though

 

Matty

Another reason explaining they do not seem to sell very well is the proximity with the 1/32 Trumpeter releases. I do not see many people having the Trumpeter kits buying the Border ones. This may explain why they are now testing the waters with a totally new topic. I'm afraid they will essentially got a lot of Flak...

[LSP_Mike]

Agreed. They might have released a 35th P 51B, P 47 or Spitty Mk Vb.

[nmayhew]

13 hours ago, quang said:

I’ve heard they’re planning 1/50 for the 1/48 fan club 

Didn’t Eduard already do that once, albeit they were actually *trying* to make a 1/48 109 lol

[quang]

2 hours ago, nmayhew said:

Didn’t Eduard already do that once, albeit they were actually *trying* to make a 1/48 109 lol

Some gentler minds would say ‘inadvertently’. 

[Gazzas]

There are plenty of Stukas and 109's in ppl's stashes to keep them from buying the Border 1/35's.  Those two kits are pretty expensive here in AUS.  But, I only have one IJA plane and no IJN planes.  I could see myself buying one, one day.  And if they came out with an A6M3 with square wing tips...   in a heartbeat.

 

Do ya want the plane or don't ya?

 

Apologies to you scale purists.

[Archimedes]

My view: If scale unification is really where we want to go and we want the same scale vehicles next to aircraft....will SOMEBODY please start making 1/32 vehicles that are appropriate; refuelers, trucks and whatnot. Making 1:35 aircraft just feels wrong somehow. 

[LSP_K2]

11 hours ago, Iain said:

1:35 is a hard pass from me...

 

Iain

 

Me too.

[coogrfan]

So after years of nothin', we're gonna have not one but two large scale Kates? Sounds good to me.  

[adameliclem]

A preview article about this kit just posted at The Modeling News. Many more CAD images, and they look impressive. Folding wings, removable cowl, wheel’s-up option and choice in ordnance, torpedo and armor piercing-bomb.

 

Cheers,

Adam

 

 

 

Edited July 8, 2022 by adameliclem
Faulty link

[Thunnus]

Just curious… if someone were to build one of Border’s 1/35 scale aircraft, could it be posted on the Works In Progress board or would it go on the Non-LSP forum?