[WWI] 1/35 or 1/32?

[Magnus Berggren]

54mm and 1/32 are in reality the same.

When it comes to why 1/35 people doesn´t want to touch 1/32, is because that 
they don´t want to mix scales. The 10% difference is to much for most 
builders. This is probably the reason why there has been releases of resin 
wwii fighters and lots of injected helicopters in 1/35 scale the last years. 
They want to be able to use them together with the wide array of 1/35 
figures and veichles.
But since there are more figures available in 1/32 as is today for wwi 
builders, and that the need for support viechles like trucks would be at 
least as great for the airheads as the ground pounders, I would find 1/32 
much more reasonable.
And it´s not that I hate 1/35. I have about 200 kits stashed in 1/35, so I 
would say that I like them a lot. It´s the fact that I would like to have 
veichles to use together with my ridiculosly expensive Andrea figures.
And no, I would never a 1/35 truck or tank with 1/32(54mm) figures. They 
would look to big. And 1/32 figures mixed with 1/35 figures usually looks 
terrible. Not because that people doesn´t vary in size, but there are no 
smaller and bigger versions of the Mausers and Enfields they are carrying 
around......

/Magnus

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray B" <fokkereiv at yahoo.ca>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] 1/35 or 1/32?


>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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