[WWI] Wingnuts

[Andy Bannister]

"Logical scale"!? Interesting. When you think of all the varying scales that
have become the accepted standards it seems like logic was the last thing
involved! Why, for instance, did 1/35th become the norm for armour and
1/32nd for aircraft? Wouldn't it be more logical to make them both in a
common scale? And why do we have cars in 1/24th and 1/25th, often from the
same manufacturer (Monogram comes to mind, and not just their re-boxings of
Revell kits)?
 
Why would 1/32nd be any more logical a scale for WWI than 1/48th, or 1/24th
for that matter?
 
Andy 
 
CEO, Editor in Chief, Choreographer, Teaboy
www.warpedplastic.co.uk <http://www.warpedplastic.co.uk/>  

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Subject: [WWI] Wingnuts



 A couple of years ago, a member of my local club, a serious modeler, said
to me " 1/32 is the logical scale for WWI aircraft." I just shrugged,
thinking no one would make any WWI kits in 1/32, as 1/32 itself was 'dead',
but I was wrong. Goes to show you, things keep changing, the only constant
in the modeler's world is AMS.

 

 

Merrill


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