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- Richard
I have been a model collector for about 20 years now, but I decided right from the start to stick to one scale, and I chose 1:43 (I know about the 1:43 scale forum and am a member, they concentrate mainly on road vehicles). I like to collect anything as long as it is that scale. You can't always get things at that scale though, for instance construction equipment, but you can now get some at 1:43, mainly from China, but I will sometimes buy 1:50 and alter to 1:43. For instance, I bought one of those massive open cast mining machines, a wheel loader (bulldozer), at 1:50 scale and altered the cabin and steps to 1:43 and it looks fine. I've also made an excellent start on converting a 1:48 scale kit of the Apollo 11 lunar module to 1:43 scale. When you do things like that you automatically end up making improvements.
From my model collecting I got into model railways when I discovered 1:43 scale was O scale. Unfortunately I then discovered that American O scale was at a smaller scale, 1:48, although still the wheels fit on the same track (as per OO and HO scale). So more converting projects, but I did manage to get a model maker to produce one of his 1:48 locomotive kits at 1:43 scale for me. I realise my best solution is to go down the 3D printing root, for that and for airplanes aswell at my scale.
I have recently been getting into model ships, some kits out there are at my scale. Oooo, some of the models I would love to get at 1:43. How about a space shuttle? A Saturn V would need a hole in my ceiling, but I've actually made a start on scratch building the smaller Saturn 1B. Anyway, that's me folks.
Rich
From my model collecting I got into model railways when I discovered 1:43 scale was O scale. Unfortunately I then discovered that American O scale was at a smaller scale, 1:48, although still the wheels fit on the same track (as per OO and HO scale). So more converting projects, but I did manage to get a model maker to produce one of his 1:48 locomotive kits at 1:43 scale for me. I realise my best solution is to go down the 3D printing root, for that and for airplanes aswell at my scale.
I have recently been getting into model ships, some kits out there are at my scale. Oooo, some of the models I would love to get at 1:43. How about a space shuttle? A Saturn V would need a hole in my ceiling, but I've actually made a start on scratch building the smaller Saturn 1B. Anyway, that's me folks.
Rich
I recently discovered some airplane flying modellers are actually modelling the movement of the real things. Trouble is in order to achieve that they have to be very light so it can't be done outside. Below is an example, they accelerate off a bit sharpish from stop on the runway but the rest of the movement is beautifull to watch, especially coming into land. An excellent effort at realism:-
