Hello, my name is Chris, I am 52 years old, a new member, a WW2 AFV German fan who has lost his mojo.....
To correct this I bought 2 WW2 German 1/72 bombers, Airfix JU88A-4 and BF110C and I hope this works, if not I am lost.
So where is this going.......that's up to us.
So to the crux of the matter, scale and fit......
Let's start with Scale. Let's use Me109G as the standard. If you study the plans, look at the real aircraft then if the wingspan is 12.2 metres then that's what is. So how do various manufactures get away with different sizes???? If I want to buy a canopy mask for this aircraft then they should all be the same. No, some say Airfix,ICM, Revell, Tamiya....but in truth 1/72 should be the same??????
So who is right????. Do we buy the latest kit because it is what we want or because we want to have the latest add ons, etch brass and decals???
Then onto fit.
Having looked at this site a gentleman building the Trumpeter 1/16 Tiger II has had to chamfer the inner wheels this kit costs £300 GBP or more, is this right???
Some one else is building the Airfix 1/24 Mosquito and the fuselage does not fit, he is not the only one, this kit costs £100 plus and again this is wrong
So where do we stand, do we boycott manufacturers until they get it correct or do we accept sub-standard models/kits because that's what we do?
So, please tell me, am I wrong or right.....as we know we love our hobby, but we are not fools
Nikonchris