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  • pjgtech
    SMF Supporters
    • Dec 2023
    • 784
    • Peter
    • Swale Kent UK

    #1

    What is your favourite scale to build in?

    As above, little poll for you..... What is your favourite scale to build models in?
    I started back into modelling using the cheap Airfix starter kits in 1:76/1:72 scale.
    At first I thought bloody hell these are small! especially with the (tiny!) Willys jeep.
    However, now after doing a few more, I actually quite like them.
    But I think my favourite has to be 1:35 vehicles, not too big, not too small, just right.... 8-)
    12
    1:9
    0%
    0
    1:12
    0%
    0
    1:25
    8.33%
    1
    1:32 or 1:35
    58.33%
    7
    1:48
    16.67%
    2
    1:72 or 1:76
    16.67%
    2
    1:100 or 1:144
    0%
    0
    1:350
    0%
    0
    1:700
    0%
    0
    smaller scales
    0%
    0
  • PaulTRose
    SMF Supporters
    • Jun 2013
    • 6447
    • Paul
    • Tattooine

    #2
    Cant vote cos its all of them ?

    1/12 for bikes
    1/24 (and weird 1/25 american scale) for cars
    1/72 and 1/48 for planes
    1/35 and braille scale for armour
    Per Ardua

    We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no ones been

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    • Tim Marlow
      SMF Supporters
      • Apr 2018
      • 18882
      • Tim
      • Somerset UK

      #3
      Pretty much the same as Paul, except I’d swap 1/72 planes for 28mm figures…

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      • spanner570
        SMF Supporters
        • May 2009
        • 15377

        #4
        Same here Paul and Tim.
        Any scale. Whatever takes my fancy.
        Even 1/1200 ships!

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        • pjgtech
          SMF Supporters
          • Dec 2023
          • 784
          • Peter
          • Swale Kent UK

          #5
          Yeah, I was gonna add a few extra options, but it only limits you to 10 choices! Doh!

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          • Miko
            SMF Supporters
            • Feb 2024
            • 582

            #6
            Almost exclusively 1/72, it makes up 95% of my stash

            Miko (I'd've been surprised if 1/72 hadn't been the most popular)

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            • minitnkr
              Charter Rabble member
              • Apr 2018
              • 7509
              • Paul
              • Dayton, OH USA

              #7
              1/87 almost exclusively. I have built in most other scales, but only in small (less than five) numbers
              Last edited by minitnkr; 08 December 2024, 19:46.

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              • pjgtech
                pjgtech commented
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                Cool, what type of models are in 1:87?
            • Geoffers
              SMF Supporters
              • Jan 2017
              • 1680
              • Geoff
              • Shropshire

              #8
              1/72 for me as I predominantly build aircraft.

              I started with 1/48 aircraft when I returned to the hobby but don’t really have room for the larger aircraft so as I wanted all my builds to be the same scale switched to 1/72.

              Geoff.

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              • boatman
                SMF Supporters
                • Nov 2018
                • 14449
                • christopher
                • NORFOLK UK

                #9
                1/32 SCALE planes an 1/200 ships for me as with this scales the detail really shows up an you can do a lot with the model
                chrisb

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                • BarryW
                  SMF Supporters
                  • Jul 2011
                  • 6009

                  #10
                  1/32 aircraft. Best balance between size and detail. At this scale aircraft have real visual impact.

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                  • minitnkr
                    Charter Rabble member
                    • Apr 2018
                    • 7509
                    • Paul
                    • Dayton, OH USA

                    #11
                    HO scale model railroading, WWII, postwar & modern US, German, Russian & British military vehicles/artillery & some US & German aircraft. 1/87 initially was for model railroading & wargaming, but popularity, due to low price and space demands along with availability of structure & scenery material, drove diorama modelers into the scene where makers expanded to meet demand. ROCO & Trident 1/87 were initial big names in the 1960s/70s for military stuff.

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                    • pjgtech
                      pjgtech commented
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                      Cheers for that, you learn summit new every day.... 8-)
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