Anyone know why armour went to 1/35th scale while, for the most part, aircraft went to 1/32nd scale? Kind of a VHS versus Beta thing or what?
along the same lines would a 1/32 scale model look wrong with 1/35 figures? i dont belive so…also the diference between 1/76(HO?) and 1/72…
I don’t think so. I mix 1/32 civilian vehicles, helos, & aircraft with 1/35 armor and figures all the time. It looks OK to me. You can even mix 1/32 and 1/35 figures in the same dio, remember, people come in all sizes, some bigger than others. Equipment is made to a standard size though. The key is to keep constant items the same, such as all weapons and helmets in 1/35, or all gear in 1/35, or 1/32 etc. Check in my galleries below to see some examples.
HeavyArty is that a kit of the CEV or did you do that work yourself? I am asking because I am going to try and do one myself from a Tamiya M60A3 that I don’t have a barrel for and was wondering what you did. If you scratched the Eng. stuff, could you give me a walkdown of any issues you ran into? Please? Please?
hehe Thank you.
This is a question that has baffled modelers for eons. It’s sort of like asking why 90% of the world measures roadways in kilometers and the U.S. keeps using miles. Let me see if I can help.
Different scales initially were developed because of the different sizes of the objects being molded. Originally, model manufacturers would simply select a scale that would produce a “reasonable” sized model and there was little consideration for continuity. Even today, particularly in the Figure and SciFi genres, scale is often an after thought.
As time went by, model manufacturers began to understand that standardizing models into standard scales was desired by the modeling community. The original scales were typically based originally on blueprints or on measurements from standard rulers. Primarily, the standard one foot ruler was used as a base and the scales 1/12 (1" = 1 foot) or 1/16 (1/16" = 1") were established as the starting point. Hence, 1/12 became 1/24, 1/36, 1/48, and 1/72 scales while 1/16 became 1/32, 1/48, and 1/64 scales.
1/35 scale has it’s origin in figure modeling. Long before injection molded kits, soldier figures were commonly made in a standard 50mm (2") height. When modelers began to express an interest in military vehicles, guns, and weapons to go with these soldiers, this converted to 1/35 scale - assuming that the figures were approximately 5’ 10" tall. The scale took hold and within a relatively short period of time, became the standard scale for most military subjects. Obviously, the smaller 1/72 and 1/48 scales, as well as the larger 1/16 scale, are used as well, but 1/35 is now firmly imbeded in the genre.
Hope this helps…
Absolutely!
Case in point: my fellow club members here in Japan often point out that if we ever built a 1/35 diorama of the club, we’d have to use a 1/25 figure for me![:p]
Seriously, that’s about right![^]
Thanks for the info guys. It is the first time I have seen this explained in such a succinct fashion. Might be interesting to see if the FSM magazine would like to print that. Anybody out there reading this forum from FSM???
Thanks for all the work.
Shockman
The CEV is scratch/converted using a Tamiya M60A3, Verlinden blade set, and the rest is scratch. Can be built pretty easily. There was an article in FSM a few years ago, March 1995 Issue, http://www.finescale.com/fsm/default.aspx?c=i&id=61 with detailed plans and instructions on how to convert an M60 into one. I built mine that way. It was pretty easy to do and on the cheap compared to the conversion set. I used the Verlinden M9 Blade Set at the time. Your best bet now would be to go with the Academy M60A1 RISE w/M9 Blade kit, or they sell the M9 Blade separetely for about $2.
For the gun tube, I used the snorkel that comes with the M60 kit and drilled it out to the proper diameter, about 1/4 inch.
Academy still teases us with a pending future release of a CEV for the last 3 or 4 years. Also, I just saw on PMMS that a new company, Armour Workshop from Hong Kong, is listing an M728 CEV conversion as a future release. Link to PMMS site (scroll to future releases): http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/newkitnews/armourworkshop.htm