Comments | jrmapes: Plastic Model Gloat

jrmapes

Plastic Model Gloat

Jul 14, 2008 22:28

See My Comments for more on the State of Model Building

Don't know how many here still put together plastic models but it is one hobby that I still love as much as gaming. The problem is that I really haven't done much in the past few years. Most of it due to being to busy with other things and most of my modeling supplies got trashed (unbeknownest ( Read more... )

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epocalypse July 15 2008, 05:41:00 UTC

Have been considering getting back into that myself. I used to do a lot of 1/35 armour and 1/72 aircraft but I'm looking at a lot of 1/48 scale right now.

jrmapes July 15 2008, 15:22:00 UTC

1/48th is becoming one of the best cost effective scales to model in at this time. Torren, my brother, went 1/48th with his airplane collection. The 1/35th scale (mostly the Japanese/Europe scale) and 1/32nd (the American company preferred) has become King and the price reflects that. There can be as much as a $20 difference between a plane or armor when priced between those two scales ( ... )

jrmapes July 15 2008, 15:50:23 UTC

The only models that aren't going down anytime soon are the Star Trek models ( ... )