The best thing about 1/18 is the large size...really impressive to look at. The worst thing about 1/18 is the large size, which equates to poor variety and they take up a lot of space and large items (like bombers) are pretty much out of the question. What would be ideal is the variety and small, storable size of 1/72 combined with the large viewing and wow appeal of 1/18.
I've often thought what would be perfect is to be able to buy little models that you can 'click' on somehow and have them get really large, for viewing. When you're done you just click on them again and they go back to be little, easily storable models. Sort of like three dimensional thumbnails.
I've realized that this is actually possible...sort of. What if you viewed a 1/72 model through a pair of small binoculars or opera glasses? Coincidentally, most opera glasses are 4x magnification. So viewing a 1/72 object through them (at any distance) is the same as seeing that object in 1/18 scale at the same distance.
With the often astonishing detail that 1/72 built ups and model kits have these days, they would hold up well to this kind of magnification and still look quite good.....just look at the braille scale picture gallery over at www.missing-lynx.com or enlarged pictures of dragon 1/72 armour and you'll see what i mean. The detail is amazing.
So, in a relatively small space you could get models of pretty much anything you want (in 1/72 almost everything is available either as a built up or model kit) and yet still be able to view them as big and as detailed as 1/18.
Now clearly they won't have the same playability, if that's what you're into 1/18 for, but if you're just into display i think this is an interesting and feasible idea.
Comments?....am i losing it?
What am I gonna do for six months????read??
but i was single back then!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
