WW1 aircraft....suitable scale?

[jaztez]

Hi guys

I'm doing and East Africa collection (will post photos soon).

I want a couple of aircraft, but I'm unsure what scale to go for that will work.

Have seen the wings of war pre painted stuff, but it's 1/144 scale. Is that too big?

[FierceKitty]

1:144 WW I aircraft look stunning. Best scale for dogfights, imffho.

[Leman]

All my WWI aircraft is 1:144.

[FierceKitty]

Shall we dance?

[Leon]

1/144th is your best bet, our stuff is around 1:150th so the difference is negligible.

[Terry37]

My two cents on airplanes is to use a smaller scale. I prefer this so they still represent the plane, but don't dominate the table top. So, although I game in 15 MM, I use 10 MM vehicles, and 1:300 scale airplanes. However, I also play HOTT and they work nicely under those rules, but may not be as workable under different rule sets.

Terry

[Sunray]

1/144th is your best bet, our stuff is around 1:150th so the difference is negligible.

A number of 10mm producers like Minifigs, Time Cast and Irregular  market their figures/kit as  10mm/1/144.

If you crew the aircraft with 10mm figures, they blend perfectly.

Peter Pig do a pilot and airgunner in  "1/144" , perfect fit with Pendraken

Pendraken have a "pilot waving" in WW1 range - not sure if a full figure or head & shoulders aircrew??

The Pendraken Bristol is a neat model.   

[pierre the shy]

I would agree with Terry that 1/300 scale models work well.

We play brigade level France 1914 and Middle East 1917 - 18 games in 10mm using ITLSU rules. The rules provide for aerial recce cards to identify enemy "blinds" (basically as yet unspotted units). The planes only appear if their card is drawn so l intend to use 1/300 planes to represent that event, models  of BE2c's and Taube's being readily accessable from 6mm suppliers from who l can also obtain my other 6mm needs in one order.

[Terry37]

If this helps, here are a few pictures of some of my 1:300 scale planes. Mine are the old Skytrex models that I bought back in the 80's, but with a little work and adding some wing struts they do nicely for me.

These two British planes are on a 40 x 30 MM base



These French and German planes are on 40 x 40 MM bases.





FYI, I did the above some years ago before I started adding the wing struts. I make them from cold forged metal. Adding them is a real good idea too as it keeps the wings from bending. Heroics and Ross planes come with wing struts and are a little larger, and also very nice models. I have some to them in my to-do pile!!!

Here's a SPAD that has the added wing struts, and also a V-Strutter D.III






As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words!!!

Terry

[paulr]

And very nice pictures they are too

Love the basing

[Techno]

Definitely seconded !!

Cheers - Phil

[Norm]

Clever use of basing, I am having a sort of 'why didn't I think of that' moment 

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed particularly like the basing

Take care

Andy

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Think the old Skytrex 1/144th scale stuff is still available from Red Eagle ?

[FierceKitty]

It is, but it's a real swine to assemble. I 'd certainly say go for Shapeways.