Small Scale Military Headquarters

There are a number of other armor lines that are worth mentioning, especially if one is into less conventional stuff. For example Figarti has put out an excellent 1:30th scale Stuart as well as German Tigers, PZ IV tanks, Shermans, Churchills, etc. These tend to be rather expensive compared to the F...

Hello Jerogen and welcome. If your primary interest is in the larger scales for diecast warbirds, then, I'm afraid, the number of options is extremely limited. If, however, you are considering the 1:48th scale and, especially, the 1:72nd, then many more possibilities open up. One of the companies I ...

And the other one:

------from what seems to be a new UK entity called Aviation72. Here are pictures of the two Swedish jets. The full lineup of 1:72nd scale models can be found on the company's website: aviation72.co.uk.

AMERICAN_GRENADIER wrote:Japanese tanks

Type 95 is the Ha-Go light tank for Marine infantry
Type 97 is the TE-Ke tankette they dont say if its 37 or 47MM gun

That's odd. The Type 97 is a medium ----by early WWII standards----not a tankette.

Great news about those Japanese tanks!!! Thanks for the heads up.

If these are examples of the actual models in this possibly forthcoming line, I'd have to say that they are definitely for the unsophisticated collector who knows very little about the planes they are supposed to depict. Like the IXO series, they use stick-on plastic parts rather than going to the t...

I'm glad to hear that this Rufe is based on a totally new tooling, which is, I assume what you are saying. However its tail, in particular does not seem to be an accurate rendition. Perhaps I'm wrong on this, so I would appreciate any other pictures, especially of the tail and under surfaces, that y...

The original Warmaster list that was announced included, aside from this rather inaccurate Rufe, the Buffalo, FW-190, F6F, Mig-3 P-38, MS-205, ME-262, MS-406, Frank and Spitfire. I think that this "new" line may, in fact , be a reincarnation of the IXO series, sans the black panel lines. I hope I'm ...

I haven't given up on diecast, however this 15 months ago I returned to model making as well as buying kit-makes on eBay and commissioning a number of special orders. I call this program my "gap filler" project as it is focused primarily on warbirds in the 1:72nd or 1:48th scale that I don't see the...

[quote="AMERICAN_GRENADIER"]nice! who made the italian stuff?[/quote

Thanks, AG.

The two Italian models were sold under the Schuco label, though I've also heard them called Edison models.

NHoggard12 wrote:Cool collection!

Who made the comet tank?

Is it 1/50 scale?

Thanks, NH. The Comet is by Corgi in 1:50th scale.

More great stuff there, Ed. Just how many models do you have? :shock: Thanks, Snake. Counting those in storage and cutting across all scales, I've got about 350-375 armor models. But in my favorite scale range---the 1:40s----I'm still hunting for a Stuart, T-72, Panzer MKII, Type 97, S Tank, and lo...

Finally, some French, Italian and a lone Japanese model:

Some more Germans:

Now, some German machines:

And a bunch of Soviet AFVs:

Now, some Brits:

I have quite a few diecast, polystone and plastic armor models in the larger scales---1:30th-1:35th-----and even more in the smaller sizes---1:60th-1:72nd------but my favorite is the 1:43-1:50th, or "medium" scale, range. I find that this size offers enough detail to satisfy me but does not pose the...

An ad in "Airplane Magazine" has let the cat out of the bag on Corgi's new 1:72nd scale toolings for 2011. Not surprisingly, the Stirling finally made the cut as did the Hawker Hart and a new Hurricane MKIIC. Not much there for the American market, except for a 1:32nd scale desert BF-109 and a HE-11...

I'm generally pleased with this model, however I fail to understand why the bracing on the vertical stabilizer was not included. I understand that this was brought to HM's attention but they claimed, rather vaguely, that production problems precluded this small and easy to do refinement. Frankly, th...

Sounds like the color scheme for planes assigned to the trainer role....but not combat duties.

I hope that you guys have big garages.

These guys have been around for some time in the civilian airlines model business and have been getting their feet wet with Vampire and Hunter jet fighters, it seems on a commission basis. The Albatross model that the Mule is selling may be their first more widely distributed effort, though the deci...

Nope, it's not me, Panzer.