Pup7309 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, Breaker said: Odd decision - Have a Lanc and a Fort on the same shelf, from the same company but in two every so slightly different scales... Must be a bloody big shelf CRAZY IVAN5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaker Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 52 minutes ago, Pup7309 said: Must be a bloody big shelf Well, I don't like to brag... Bill Cross, Stew Dapple, D.B. Andrus and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbert Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, quang said: Like desperados waiting for a train… 1/35 crew is ready. But why one in summer outfits (or hot environment) and the other one in winter (or cold environment) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pup7309 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, quang said: Like desperados waiting for a train… 1/35 crew is ready. Trying to figure out the sat-nav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 (edited) 33 minutes ago, norbert said: But why one in summer outfits (or hot environment) and the other one in winter (or cold environment) ? What do I know? What struck me are the impeccable sculpting, the natural stance, the facial expressions, the treatment of the folds, etc. Add to that these are the first 1/35 bomber crew bar none. And furthermore they’re affordable. What else do you need? Edited January 29 by quang Syntax LSP_K2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 2 hours ago, norbert said: But why one in summer outfits (or hot environment) and the other one in winter (or cold environment) ? One is ready for 20,000 feet, the other isn’t. Bill Cross 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbk57 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 6 hours ago, Breaker said: Odd decision - Have a Lanc and a Fort on the same shelf, from the same company but in two every so slightly different scales... The odd duck is the lancaster, it looks like Border is going 1/35 on all the kits they develop armor or aircraft. They acquired the lancaster from the existing WNW project, so that one is the odd man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phartycr0c Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 The irony of all this, when a 1 32 aircraft was put into a dio with 1/35 figures and vehicles nobody really cared, but now its a thing and apparently always has been amongst armour modeller's who are now saying its about time etc.. ANYHOO, I cant help but feel that this is a (understandable) cash grab on MOTA which, from a business perspective makes obvious sense I hope the kit is top drawer but i have too much invested in the HK fort to sell and buy. shame really, The Heinkel 111 on the other hand ......... Shoggz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 8 minutes ago, Phartycr0c said: The irony of all this, when a 1 32 aircraft was put into a dio with 1/35 figures and vehicles nobody really cared, but now its a thing and apparently always has been amongst armour modeller's who are now saying its about time etc.. The thing is that 1:35 figures can easily fit into a 1:32 diorama (with a little artistic licence) as people vary in size, so they're just on the small side. But I'm unashamedly "scaleist" in terms of aircraft as I want a constant scale across my LSPs. YMMV. DugyB and firefly7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phartycr0c Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 minute ago, MikeC said: The thing is that 1:35 figures can easily fit into a 1:32 diorama (with a little artistic licence) as people vary in size, so they're just on the small side. But I'm unashamedly "scaleist" in terms of aircraft as I want a constant scale across my LSPs. YMMV. absolutely agree BUT we are not the ones making business decisions. I would like to think that there is some business acumen as to why border chose 1/35 and why release subjects already covered in 1/32 (accuracy aside). Of course there is no law that dictates aircraft should be produced in 32nd, rather, it is an accepted scale for aircraft as opposed to the "tamiya" introduced scale of 1/35 for armour. Question, would armour modellers be buying a 1/37 scale Sherman if anyone released one? MikeC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Give me accurate styrene kits of my favourite twenty subjects and as long as they're all in same scale I don't care if they're 1:32 or 1:35 — or even 1:37, as long as there's consistentcy. Tony Troy Molitor, Pup7309, Phartycr0c and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 44 minutes ago, Phartycr0c said: ...BUT we are not the ones making business decisions. I would like to think that there is some business acumen as to why border chose 1/35 and why release subjects already covered in 1/32 (accuracy aside). Indeed so, and I would be very interested to learn what it was - but of course, I doubt we ever will, as it's a company's commercial decision. Although I still have a sneaking hope that actually there's a person in Border breathing a huge sigh of relief that they seem to have got away with a typo that nobody spotted in a proposal for a 1/32 scale kit. Phartycr0c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, Phartycr0c said: ANYHOO, I cant help but feel that this is a (understandable) cash grab on MOTA which, from a business perspective makes obvious sense Three months ago, most people on this forum didn’t know what MOTA stood for. And when they finally knew, quite a few didn’t spare the scorn and sarcasm concerning the quality and credibility of the series. Add to that the fact that it takes a bit longer than 3 months to design and produce a large scale kit. Furthermore if Border wanted to do a ‘cash grab on MOTA’, they would be as smart as to release a B-17F instead of a B-17G with a Cheyenne turret. Ah but hell, what do I know? CRAZY IVAN5 and Troy Molitor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Cross Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 (edited) 14 hours ago, cbk57 said: I would suggest if someone were going to tool a all new B-17 in any scale now would be the time and have it on sale by early 2025 or sooner to capitalize on Masters of the Air. I would bet serious money the folks at Border Models have ZERO idea that "Masters of the Air" is out and would not base their business decisions on a fleeting Hollywood crumpet. As someone else pointed out, this design has been in the works for months, and production would be impossible to tie-in with an Apple TV launch. It's why conspiracy theories are so compelling: no one would ever believe a sociopathic loner with a mail-order shitty copy of a German mauser would be able to shoot the president of the United States from a window in the building where he just happened to work. Too fantastical. A movie plot like that would be laughed out of the pitch meetings in Hollywood. There HAS to be a logical answer.... Edited January 29 by Bill Cross more irony and sarcasm CRAZY IVAN5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 4 hours ago, Phartycr0c said: Of course there is no law that dictates aircraft should be produced in 32nd, rather, it is an accepted scale for aircraft Except the laws of logic and maths, in that it bears a direct mathematical relationship to 1/48 and 1/72, the more widely popular aircraft scales. But I do accept that is not absolute. Anyway, I seem to be at risk of diverting this thread, so perhaps I'd better bow out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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