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Desert Marlin
Right in the middle of a perfectly good Mirage 2000N build, I wound up building this Iron Dome Battery. Not sure how I got sucked in, but the build was pretty easy until it came to the cabling...

Neuling
You won´t get tangled up, mate! As expert modeller you´ll make! 🙂

Desert Marlin
Aye, I have been blessed with time and opportunity!

Desert Marlin
Time to paint the IDF soldiers that came with it!

Ray Loch
Excellent, will be watching. just finished watching Rogue Heroes so this is on the want list.

Lebloge
Nice work ! 👍🏻

Doubtingmango
Nicely done

Neuling
Top job on this Tamiya oldie!

Jun Chung
Thank you ^^
This kit was released on 1977.
This is very old kit but still attractive on my eyes.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

David Taylor
Nice.

Jun Chung
Thank you ^^

Finn
Following

Jennifer Franklin
me too

Dietmar Bogatzki
taking a seat

Landlubber Mike
Thanks guys! Hope I make it worth your while!

Nicolas
Following

Neil
Me too 👍

Landlubber Mike
Welcome aboard Nicolas and Neil! Thanks for your interest.

Lochsa River
have to sit in...this is in the stash...I was looking at it yesterday...

Lochsa River
A tip...others who built this kit had trouble around the cockpit....

Guy Rump
Following! 👍

Carlo
Nice, a flying boat. Hope this(or Sword) kit gets re-issued one day soon..

Alec K
Taking a seat.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks for following guys. Lochsa, you're right about the canopy. There are fit issues in general with this kit - most of which aren't too difficult to deal with - but the canopy is a bit of a mess. I'm not really looking forward to that part of the build.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here too!

Landlubber Mike
Thanks for joining Robert!

Michael Kohl
Didn't know the subject, like the projekt, love to follow.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks Michael - glad to have you along!

Ben M
💺

bughunter
That is discussed recently a lot, but Border Model has not started it. The SM database has nearly 300 full kits in group "Aircraft" in 1:35 so this is nothing new. That scale is more used for dioramas so you can find more figures, cars and accessories compared to 1:32.

David Winter
Of that 290 1:35 scale aircraft kits listed here, 260 of them are the same few helicopter kits just reboxed many times over the years. The only non-rotorwing kits are for obscure drones in resin kits (which would make sense for a diorama) or kits from the 1960s that haven't sold well enough to reissue. The remainder are small civilian craft like Cessna's, again kits from the 60s that didn't warrant reissue.

If you're going to manufacture a more mainstream aircraft subject, like the He111, stick to one of the mainstream scales - 1:72, 1:48, 1:32, or 1:24

bughunter
Yes, you are right. So don't buy it.

On the other hand they are free to release what they want. And if there are enough 1:35 dudes who buy this kit (I don't know the number), they will have done everything right from a business point of view. If not, it's there own fail and will prevent such future releases.

Sebastian Meyner
Sorry mate, but I'm with bughunter on this one: If you don't like it, don't buy it.

Btw, calling (Airfixes ...) 1:24 aircraft kits mainstream, is a bit of a stretch. Airfix is, as far as I know, the only big company who still releases newly tooled kits this scale. The fact that you have all of Airfix's 1:24 aircraft kits in your stash, doesn't make it mainstream.... just saying 😉

David Winter
Hey buddy, you not being able to afford the large scales doesn't make them not mainstream. Airfix will sell an order of magnitude more 1:24 Spits than Border will sell of this kit. Borders biggest claim to fame is screwing up the Lancaster, so I'm not surprised they'd screw up their Heinkel. just saying 😉

Sebastian Meyner
Aww, I'm sorry! Did I hit a nerve there? After double checking my own stash, I don't think money is my (....or the general) issue here.

At the end of the day it boils down to, "do you want the product a company is putting on the market or not". If the answer is yes, go ahead and have fun with it. If not, just move on and don't throw a tantrum because other people like different things than you do.

AndrewG
OMG, people! If anyone wants to do dioramas with ARMOUR and planes, Border releasing 1:35 He111's, Stuka's, BF-109's is a dream come true!!

Bill Birkman
Its time to get rid of the odd ball 1/32 and go with 1/35 for aircraft. If I'm not mistaken Tamiya is the one that screwed up the scales many many years ago. I will be sure to add one to my stash.

Jeff C.
I love it. There are plenty of softskins that could be placed in an airfield diorama. There are more 1/35 vehicles and accessories available than 1/32 scale. I have the Border Stuka and Tristar Fieseler Storch. I have the 1/35 Bronco Rosie the Rocketeer kit also. Way to go Border.

Hemingway
Anyone heard any updates on release date for this?

Ben M
Gauge 1 railway stuff gives you trains, non military vehicles, and buildings in 1:32 but I don't see people take advantage of this.

Ben M
There's also some old monogram military kits that are 1:32

Jeff C.
Those old Monogram kits are great to build for nostalgic reasons but are very basic and inaccurate. They are basically, along with Tamiya, why I started building armor.

Ben M
Same. I recently picked up a mostly complete m3 Lee, which was the first non-snaptite armor kit I built.