ij001
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Hmmmm, 1:72, not a scale I work in very often, in fact I have just four 1:72 models in my cabinet. The Hobbyboss F-14 & Italeri F-100 you've all seen here before, the RoG Hunter is five or six years old and my Italeri Jag is being built for the OoB Campaign here (and the Early Jets GB at Kiwi Modeller), and that is 75% done. But when I dug-out the Jag from the stash, I was amazed just how many 'quality' 1:72 jet kits I have. Now 'quality' is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder, and this 'opinion' is what prompted my posting this thread.
The reason I don't normally build more than one 1:72 kit a year is simply this... My 51 year old eyes and sausage fingers simply wont allow me to do the level of detail that I would put into a larger scale project - pride then jumps-in with both feet and slams the door... 'Well you cannot do it full justice so dont do it at all !!'
But I think over the last couple of weeks away from my bench, I've had a sort of 'Road to Damascus' moment.
In my stash I have some truly superb 1:72 kits, kits that really ought to be built (for instance):
The Hasegawa F-14A with a full set of dropped flaps and slats, the Fujimi & Italeri A-6's - the former having dropped flaps and slats the latter has folding wings, Revell's Hunters & Eurofighters - If you haven't seen the Eurofighter, you really should, it's like a Contemporary NATO weapons set with a free aircraft kit !!, I have other Fujimi gems like their British Phantom, the A-7 and the stunning little A-4E, and if you saw the (full) range of Hasegawa Phantoms (eleven) you'd think I'd gone mad !!
There are more 'current generation' 1:72 kits that I've either sold or built over recent years that equally take-ones-breath-away for their sheer quality (the Hasegawa F-111 immediately springs to mind)... so here I am looking at these fantastic tho' small kits and thinking...
...why not ??
Unless I am planning to put them into a competition, what is stopping me from building some more of these little kits... Answer, nothing but some weird pride-driven idea that because they are smaller and I haven't spent at least another 50% of their purchase price on an etch set and state-of-the-art decals then somehow they are not worth considering... Time to kick that idea into touch.
So folks, what do you think ?? - 1:72 worth getting those wee gems back-out of the stash and making the effort ??... Over to you.
Ian
The reason I don't normally build more than one 1:72 kit a year is simply this... My 51 year old eyes and sausage fingers simply wont allow me to do the level of detail that I would put into a larger scale project - pride then jumps-in with both feet and slams the door... 'Well you cannot do it full justice so dont do it at all !!'
But I think over the last couple of weeks away from my bench, I've had a sort of 'Road to Damascus' moment.
In my stash I have some truly superb 1:72 kits, kits that really ought to be built (for instance):
The Hasegawa F-14A with a full set of dropped flaps and slats, the Fujimi & Italeri A-6's - the former having dropped flaps and slats the latter has folding wings, Revell's Hunters & Eurofighters - If you haven't seen the Eurofighter, you really should, it's like a Contemporary NATO weapons set with a free aircraft kit !!, I have other Fujimi gems like their British Phantom, the A-7 and the stunning little A-4E, and if you saw the (full) range of Hasegawa Phantoms (eleven) you'd think I'd gone mad !!
There are more 'current generation' 1:72 kits that I've either sold or built over recent years that equally take-ones-breath-away for their sheer quality (the Hasegawa F-111 immediately springs to mind)... so here I am looking at these fantastic tho' small kits and thinking...
...why not ??
Unless I am planning to put them into a competition, what is stopping me from building some more of these little kits... Answer, nothing but some weird pride-driven idea that because they are smaller and I haven't spent at least another 50% of their purchase price on an etch set and state-of-the-art decals then somehow they are not worth considering... Time to kick that idea into touch.
So folks, what do you think ?? - 1:72 worth getting those wee gems back-out of the stash and making the effort ??... Over to you.
Ian
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