Plastic or Metal?

flanker · Post by **flanker** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:44 am

Is this whats happening to the latest FOV releases? Plastic? The P39Q cobra is all metal but the Elefant is plastic?? Maybe only certain models.

I know the FOV 88 is almost all plastic and had too many delicate breakable plastic pieces which is why I didn't buy it. I wargame with my models so they are subjected to lots of handling.

I perfer mostly metal, thats what got me interested in FOV 1/32 scale in the first place. I recently picked up a stug at TRU and it had the same amount of metal as my original stugs I picked up 5 years ago. So whats up ???

binder001 · Post by **binder001** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:58 pm

I'm totally FOR plastic and AGAINST metal for large assemblies. My fetish is to redetail/correct/customize and metal is much harder for me to work with. That nasty stuff that FoV uses dulls drills bits and ruins Dremel bits. I build models so I am used to working in plastic and resin. I strongly prefer plastic for my models..

That being said I do love turned metal gun barrels. I spend a lot of money adding them to my 1/35th tanks. Cast resin is next best, plastic barrels - either two-piece or one-piece rarely have a truely circular cross section and often have seam lines that need removal. A MACHINED metal gun barrel is highly desireable - worth extra money. I do wish more of the .50 caliber MGs were in metal. The M2HB is a very heavy and impressive gun - it does NOT sag or bend in normal use.

Gary

panzertruppen · Post by **panzertruppen** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:15 am

I like plastic/metal hybrid i.e. detailed, but feels realistic, but I have to say I prefer plastic.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:17 pm

Whilst I prefer metal.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:18 pm

To each his own, eh?

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