I’ve done some calculating…
FROG build 1/72nd scale aircraft in 1936.
The earliest 1/48 scale aircraft I can find date from 1959.
Then came 1/32nd for aircraft, and now 1/25th.
The pace of aircraft scale growth is accelerating. I predict that my tired old eyes will be working on a 1:1 resin P-51 at about the year 2025.
…I wonder what I should make the seatbelts out of? [^o)]
I already seen a 1/1 Spitfire model. Can’t remember the guys name or any other particulars. Somebody posted it here, last year or so. The time is here…now!!!
For the seatbelts, you could probably get away with some cargo straps, or even a tow strap![:P]
Long before I get to 1:1 scale I will have been priced completely out of the hobby.
And there will be no way of hiding the aftermarket goodies from your wife as they get delivered by freight courier to your front door. Wait, that’s another thread. [:$]
1:1 seat belt material? How about, uh, seat belts! [:)]
Chris
James May’s Toy Stories. A fiberglass kit though…Hmmmmmm…
1:1 Models are built all the time for the movies. The movie about the Avro Arrow featured a 1:1 model of the Arrow. Many other movies have featured 1:1 models in varying degrees of detail.
The kit he used was made by Airfix . Though how did he paint it since a hobby airbrush wouldn’t hold enough paint?
Remember “Tora, Tora, Tora” 1:1 Japanese battleships. Try sneaking that one in the house.
Those big rollers you use for painting walls… though, he should have built a 24/1 scale airbrush first!!!
I almost am now… Have you seen how the prices have shot up even on eBay in the last few months…?
No, cause my eyes start to glaze over when the first number gets much past 4.
In hangar deck of USS Intrepid, all the aircraft in there are 1/1 scale fiberglass…
But what do we do about shelf space?
I’m going to have to build 48/1 overscale bookshelves. Then, the chairs may need to be enlarged. But since air & ground components are rarely made to the same scale, I’ll make them 25/1.
I’ve just run out of room in my house…and the 6’ tall carpet fibers irritate my nose.
We have a 1:1 scale fiberglass spitfire (missing cockpit details) as the gate guardian to Christchurch city. The real aircraft that it was molded from is currently on display at wigram air museum.
If i remember correctly james mays spitfire was made out of plastic reinforced with steel and fiberglass.
Nah. By 2025 someone (Trumpeter probably) will be making 2:1 scale aircraft. Tamiya will make a state of the art 1:1 aircraft that will actually fly, and Rolls Royce will find a new market building 1:1 aftermarket engines. But Hans will call these a waste of money and make his own out of packing boxes and string.
Oh, and people will still be clamoring for a new 1/48 B-17…
Just buy the Verlinden 1:1 USAF Museum or Smithsonian Museum display set (land not included). Then you can display all the other models inside of it (except the 1:1 C5 Galaxy kit) . 
James May Toy Story- 1:1 Airfix Spitfire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBR7LFmnWsE&feature=related
part 1
You damn skippy, I would… [;)]
Truth be told, I plan on doing a 1/1 scale (Battlestar Galactica, not F-16) Viper someday, once I get into a place with a garage and paved driveway… But the plans call for a 1/4-inch plywood skin over wooden frame rather than fiberglass… Kinda like a “Viper meets Mosquito” build, lol… AS with al my aircraft models, work starts in the cockpit… I’ve already located a de-miled F-80/T-33 ejection seat for 200.00…
I remember some years ago at the Texas State Fair that the Navy Recruiters had a fiberglass mockup in 1/1 scale of a Tomcat… The cockpit was more or less complete though, and they were taking “Hero-Shots” of the fair-goers that were interested in a “Top Gun” photo, lol… I’ve been wanting build a couple trailer-mounted Warbird cockpit/fuselage sections to take to airshows and do the same thing for the folks… Seems like I could recoup my investment in a year or so at 5.00 bucks a Polaroid… Couple different flight helmets, some velcroed “Flightsuit” tops and you get to 'be a fighter pilot", lol…
The Minnesota Air Guard did that with a Phantom cockpit one year and they just flat cleaned up that weekend… Every time I walked by their booth, they had a dozen people in line getting “Mavericked”… Saw one group with a 1/2 scale Gloster Meteor cockpit section for the tykes…