New large scale aircraft kits

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I was reading today’s posting on the Scale Model News and they posted that Border Models is coming out with a 1/35 Ju-87 G1/G2 kit. Earlier this year Border Models also released a 1/35 Bf-109G kit. Has anyone seen or built these kits? I’ve secretly wanted someone to come out with 1/35 scale aircraft kits for a long time. I know that Bronco came out with a Fiesler Storch and a U.S. Army Piper Cub a few years ago, and I really didn’t hear a lot about them on the internet. I’ve always wanted aircraft kits to be able to go along with my 1/35 vehicle builds for the diorama posiblilities and the 1/32 aircraft just did not look right. What do you guys think?

Tom S.

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It really doesn’t do anything for me,I don’t build 1/32 anyway,I have zero interest in 1/35 planes.

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Interesting. There’s a few 1/35 Helicopters out there. This surley makes my diorama idea easy:

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That’s a great reference photo Keavdog! I could see using one of those Dragon German flatbed railroad car kits and then the Borders Models’ Bf-109. As far as the new Stuka kit, I could envision Rudel’s Stuka with a ground crew and possibly a kublewagon or a ketterrad parked nearby.

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There’s a nice unboxing video with sprue close-ups for the Bf109G here.

Looks like lots of excellent subtle rivet detail and slide molding with hollowed-out gun barrels and exhausts. Yowza!

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Have you checked out the Large Scale Planes website? You can search their kit database for 1/35 scale aircraft.

https://largescaleplanes.com/

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I build 35th armour dioramas and 32nd aircraft but this does not appeal to me. For my taste a 35th aircraft dio would just be to big especially once you start adding vehicles. And apart from trucks or jeeps, i don’t see a huge scope for bringing the 2 together. I’ll stick to 72nd scal;e for aircraft dio’s, far more managable.

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Yikes! As others have said, that’s a lot of display space.

I tend to think of 1:48 as being “standard” for single aircraft with 1:72 used for multi-ship in-flight displays and 1:32 for those showpiece/extreme detail builds.

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Yet, I do believe that was part of the rational for 1:35 aircraft. There are some diorama guys hereabouts who do pretty large dioramas.

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O ye, i get the rationale behind it. But as i say, its not for me and i feel the scope is a bit limited. I know there is not a wide selection of diorama accesories in 32nd but there are in 35th which would make diorama’s easier. But the main reason seems to be so builders can combine vehicles with aircraft and that seems to me to have limited options.

But each to their own of course.

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I’m with Bish, a 1/35 scale dio is just too big. I don’t have enough room for the 1/350 ships I build and have to give them to our local museum. 1/48 is also too big but I do still build those on occasion.

Like him, I mostly build 1/72 for everything else.

I do have a few 1/32 but they hang from the celing.