[WWI] 1/35 or 1/32?

[Ray B]

I think your mixing apples and oranges here. For figures 54mm is only one of many scales. 25mm, 54mm 1/35th 70mm 75mm 90mm and 120mm plus 1/6th. 
   
  The ground pounder people who play with tanks and stuff are 90% into 1/35th look at all the criticism tamiya took for wasting resources in there 1/48 line. In other words what I'm saying is when you create a model in a different scale your taking a huge risk, that guarrantees you make your market smaller. A large majority of 1/35th folks wont touch 1/32. Us OT builders might buy a 1/35 OT tank. Most 1/35th builders wont buy a 1/32 scale OT tank. Therefore your prospective market diminished. 
   
  Ray

Magnus Berggren <carius at comhem.se> wrote:
  I really don´t think that the few 1/35 ontopic subject would tip the balance 
toward 1/35. Just the amount of figures in 54mm would easily make it more 
easy to stay in 1/32.
As I see it, the few acceptable on topic models 1/35 existing today, 
wouldn´t rectify staying in the scale. Emhars models are not even close up 
to todays standards, and then we basicly have Accurate Armours Whippet, RPMs 
FT17 and Tauros A7. If Roden for example would make a good Mk.IV and 
subvariants, they would already be dominating the field. A nice truck added 
to this would be a welcome addition for 1/32 aircraft builders as well as 
the 54mm figure, and the armour guys.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diego Fernetti" 
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" 
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] 1/35 or 1/32?


> Magnus le Provocateur á écrit:
>> Now they have a chance to rectify the misstake that Tamiya was making, 
>> and start over fresh with wwi-era viechles.
>
> Why, a mistake? Perhaps they wanted to make it in that slightly off scale.
>
>> After a long discussion with some friends, I see that there are positive 
>> and negative sides of both scales. What do you think about it?
>
> 1/35 may compare with most of the armour and softskin models out there. 
> The scale has become a market standard for vehicles and artillery kits. 
> 1/32, however, has become unusual by this time, I guess that only older 
> kits by Esci (that in the boxtops say 1/35) and Airfix. I think that this 
> is a lost battle, Magnus.
>
>> And yes, even if you normaly just do 1/72 or 1/48, your opinion 
>> matters....:-)
>
> Go figure!
> D. 




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