Badi wrote:my collectin in 1/20...only possible because Tamiya and Michael Portaro....
THanks indeed!!!
Really nice bunch.
Well, I see it's the same for all of us, we have all, as a group the same feelings. Some have only part of them (I admire the temper of those sticking to a single scale
Great, my friend Seamus!!
), and some of us have part of them or even them all.
I also as Stubeck am able to put together a 1/20 Lola, a 1/25 Penske, a 1/24 Delta 4WD, a TIE fighter too, a frog figure... I'll even raise the game adding a scale model of Levante UD football team stadium!!!
Surely the ideal thing is not mixing that much, and that's my aim.
I supose that the ideal thing is, if you have some "odd scale" models, devote a place apart for them.
I dont mind too much having 1/20 for F1 and 1/24 for "cars" as they are soooo different.
I dont regret Tamiya "creating" the 1/20 scale, as an F1 certainly looks better at this scale. What I am a bit angry is that ever there's some "extra" help like diecasts, it is (apart some rare exceptions) at 1/20.
I also understand the sorrow of tose who once saw the dawn of 1/24 in F1 as a real possibility only to see it vanish later on.
Then to bring in the military thing, no, I dont think they (us) are that angry: the thing is they have A LOT of scales that usually have ALL THE SUBJECTS...
We "fell to the Dark Side" and were unfaithful to our scale because we saw that Ferrari 146/85, MP4/2, Benetton B190, FW14... that were not available at "OUR" scale. Had they been at the same scale, same time, we would not have gotten them.
Those who chose 1/24 (for F1 I mean), knew well what the scenario was beforehand.
Now the thing is, once you have been unable to resist to a few 1/24s, vs a whole lot of 1/20s... do you keep the small ones?
I don't know what to do, as I see it's quite silly to make a big effort in making a 1/20 FW19, when I already have the 1/24 Revell built...
1/12 is another story. I should have kept my buying rate at low revs on this one, but well that is related to my insanity!!!