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Post by 0oliam94 on Aug 24, 2012 15:52:38 GMT
Hi everyone! Recently ordered this Airfix Set, everything is fantastic..however, half way through building one of the trucks, i noticed that I did not have the Spitfire....can anyone help me where to buy one from that specifically does the scale 1:76 or would I have to buy a new set or something? Your support and help would be greatly useful! 0oliam94
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Post by jelly071 on Oct 2, 2012 15:18:25 GMT
The aircarft in the set would have been 1/72. So standard mk1a spit from airfix would do
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Post by Checkers on Nov 4, 2012 9:02:44 GMT
It looks to me like the people making the armour models didn't talk to the people making the planes and they had their own ideas of the right scale to use many years ago and it just never got changed ! I'd love to know the history behind this.
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perdu
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Post by perdu on Jan 4, 2013 20:04:28 GMT
I'm very open to further education but as I remember it 1:76 scale corresponds to 00 scale railway systems and the tanks, trucks and various figure sets from Airfix (at least) followed the convention. Which meant of course that there are zillions or maybe squillions of suitable figures and vehicle sets around with which the Military ranges could join the railway civvies in dioramas and track layouts.. 1:72 however became a popular scale for aircraft modelling because of the ease of transferring models to plans at six feet to an inch. You need to consider that this was back in the days when many modellers made their own aircraft models, carving them in many instances from balsa or soft pine. (let no-one tell you that soft pine is S O F T when carving the stuff) I think it was just about "pre-war" that early models became accessible. I remember kits even in the early sixties that gave cut blanks that you then had to shape to finish them off I don't suppose many people back then were tying their aircraft models to dioramas with tanks or such 'til later. Back in the late fifties or early sixties one of my favourite library books was about making "your own scale models" from balsa and using the old dope and talc mixture as sander filler It had a set of plans (at 1:72 scale) for making amongst others a Hawker Hunter Fighter Jet and full drawings that guided the modeller along the rocky road Wish I could remember the name of the book
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