What type of kits do you go for?

[garyscott]

Just something i have thought about, What type of kits do you specifically (if at all) choose to build? Is there a certain role of aircraft that you would model, like ground attack only, or recce types, or do you choose from a certain era? Only jets, props, helis? What makes you choose a model?
I have only ever really constructed fighter/bomber aircraft that were in service from no earlier than about 1980. Always been jets too. Mainly USAF types but occasionally RAF types too. I have not yet modelled anything Soviet.
So, what about others?

Gary

[Sheff]

Everyone seems to have a different view. My old mate Ernie Lee for example, sticks to 72nd scale kits of any era, his aim being to produce a model of every aircraft type - even though he knows he'll never live long enough to do it! Then there's Neil Robinson who used to be a 72nd scale man, but he shifted to 48th scale when his eyesight started failing! He's still terminally obsessed with Spitfires though!

I used to stick with 72nd scale modern RAF/Nato subjects but then as I got older (and the aircraft started to disappear) I realised that I was primarily interested in the stuff I'd grown-up with in the 1970's. But then the huge increase in availability of 48th scale stuff happened, and it was too hard to resist. Then the same happened with 32nd scale... Eventually I realised that life was too short to obsess about a particular scale or type of aircraft, as it seemed pointless when you considered just how many aircraft there are, compared with how many you actually build models of. I decided I'd just go for anything that caught my eye in future!

So these days I just buy a kit if it's an aircraft I like, or if it's just a good-quality kit. I'm still geared towards my favourite types (particularly things from the 70's era) but when things come along like the new Tamiya Spitfire, the kit is so good that I can't ignore it just because it's a Spitfire! I think the only stuff I'd never really bother to buy would be WWII Luftwaffe stuff. I've never seen the fascination with them at all. Or even more obscure things like WWII Japanese aircraft, or really unusual biplanes... things like that would bore me silly!

I'm just waiting for a top-class injection-moulded 32nd scale kit of the Varsity... might be a very, very long wait...

[viper3111]

I mainly stick to 48th scale, with a few 32nd thrown in. But I have now seen some of the new generation 72nd kits and have bought a couple. One being a couple of airfix nimrods and the other the monogram rb-36 peacemaker.

I build what ever takes my fancy, I tend to go through phazes. At the moment (not including my show models) Im into Japanese stuff, I also have a thing for russian hardware, but I have no real preference. I do enjoy the hasegawa F-4's and F-86's (F-86 is my favourite aircraft) as they are cracking kits with lots of potential with decals and conversions.

I like to build aircraft with local conections, I have the classic airframes meteor NF/11-13 to convert into a 14 for my Ely hospital gate guard. As I originaly come from Bottisham near cambridge I am also slowy making my way through P-51's from the 361st FG. Along with some waterbeach hunters, bentwaters F-84's, Lakenheaths F-15's & F-111's Ive even got a 72nd KC-135 to do as a quid from the hall etc etc.

[garyscott]

I used to be 1/72, but after my first 1/48 ive never looked back! havent got the pocket for a 1/32 though, however i will gladly accept donations of a 1/32 aircraft!!lol