Viking93
1:32 makes no sense. In 1:35 it is comparable to tanks and many more additional equipment in this scale. I am really happy they introduced planes in 1:35.

David Winter Autore
1:32 has been a standard scale for aircraft for decades. 1:35 is no use for aircraft modellers.

Robert Podkoński
To the best of my knowledge: 6 feet (average height of a man) equals 1 inch in 1:72 scale. 1:72 x 1,5 = 1:48 and 1:48 x 1,5 = 1:32. Yet airplanes in 1:35 scale give one an opportunity to create dioramas together with armor kits...

Christoph Kunz
"1:35 is no use for aircraft modellers."
But aircraft modellers aren't the only modellers. 😉

Hister Farjas
1/35 makes a lot of sense

David Winter Autore
All these people saying that 1:35 allows for diorama's with armour. Nobody does this. After 40 years in the hobby, I have seen zero aircraft and tanks in the same diorama. 1:35 makes no sense.

Hister Farjas
well could be that until now, there was only a few 1/35 aircraft, lets wait until there are more kits and wait how people like to do Dioramas,

Giuseppe
I confirm David Winter. Never seen such dioramas

Bogicevic Vladimir
Today you have armor, trucks, cars, trains, boats, figures, etc. all in 1/35 scale.
All except aircrafts. So why not? I like idea that all of my collection is in same scale. I am ex 1/32 aircraft modeler who wanted to have vehicles in same scale. So, 10 years ago I changed scale to 1/35. End waited. Upcoming aircraft models in 1/35 scale are, at least for me, a dream come true.

The Blytonian
Divisive topic. I build armour 1/35 & aircraft 1/32. I love Japanese WWII aircraft & would love a Kate. I won't be buying buy it or any Border Model aircraft model because I want my aircraft to be in the same scale & proportionate alonside one another on display. Tamiya, Hasegawa, Eduard et al all stick with the 1/32 convention. Another wheel which doesn't need reinventing.

DuperScale
Why do you care? Today there is sooo much 1/35 stuff. 1/32 is an old standard that, at least for me is obsolete.

The Blytonian
Already elaborated with clarity why I, and others as expressed here, care. Can't help you with appalling comprehension.

1/32 is the long standing conventional, overwhelmingly popular and CURRENT large scale standard for plastic model aircraft adopted and currently practiced by all major manufacturers. e.g. Eduard, Tamiya, Hasegawa, Revell, Academy, HobbyBoss, Trumpeter, Italeri, ICM, Wingnut Wings, just as 1/35 has been and is for armour. It is not "obsolete"..... Border's 1/35 is just a truly ODDBALL scale for aircraft. NEW or change for change's sake doesn't ipso facto mean 'better'.

As someone else said, the hypothetical of it serving 1/35 armour with aircraft dioramas is extremely rare IRL and is a an unconvincing argument. Aircraft modellers who regularly build large scale and whose extant collection is 1/32 with few exceptions want all their aircraft in respective scales be it 1/72, 1/48 or 1/32 to be in the same scale and so in relative comparative proportion alongside one another on display. Border's 'initiative' reminds me of the stupidity of 1/76 vs 1/72 armour practiced by manufacturers 1/72 ESCI, Italeri, Hasegawa vs 1/76 Airfix, Matchbox, Fujimi, albeit with only a single rogue manufacturer supporting 1/35 in for aircraft this instance -thankfully. Irritating as. Personally I hope Border 'crash and burn' financially on this.

Bogicevic Vladimir
I don't understand what anything that is happening in 1/35 scale have to do with people who make 1/32 aircrafts.

Christoph Kunz
Hoping for a "crash and burn" of a manufacturer just because you don't like the scale of their models is pretty irritating.

Alexander Grivonev
It all could have been prevented if Mr. Tamiya made his first motorized Panther model slightly bigger😄

Augie
Wow... hard to know where to start..

Its a new model, in a scale that will interest some.. surely that should be good for the hobby?

Yet we have a bunch of people feeling that they need to be so sodding negative about it. It mystifies me, let alone wishing the manufacturer "crashes and burns" financially for heaven above ordaining to make a kit in an "odd" format.

Really? I mean really? is that really the level some of you will go too.. I mean Its fairly simple, if you don't like it.. pass it by, don't buy it.

John Hughes
Maybe the reason people haven't combined aircraft and vehicles in large scale dios in the past is that THEY COULDN'T!

Ben M
Wow. Could we dial it down? There's plenty of kits I'll never buy for whatever reason (fit too good, have decals that aren't over 50 years old), but I don't wish economic ruin on the manufacturer.

The Blytonian
Appreciate some of you are English language challenged being your non primary language and others comprehension challenged, but clearly I was referring to Border Model crashing & burning "on this" specific 1/35 aircraft scale project so they'll be deterred from continuing with their 'heresy'. = P Clearly Border Model aren't going to fail as an entity financially given their 1/35 armour focus, extant range, very healthy market penetration, sales popularity & pricing of the brand in that regard. Puerile out of context word manipulation attempted point scoring... or so I hope for the sake of literacy remaining above idiocracy.

I'd truly like someone of apparent genius to elaborate to me exactly how vehicular armour is going to plausibly fit into any diorama featuring the Akagi bridge/deck and its B5N2? : \

Managed to figure out a pass/no sale on this all by myself, -previously made abundantly clear literally... or so I thought? But thanks-no thanks for the trite 'advice'.

Now all we need is for armour to start being produced in 1/32 as well. Apparently that too would be diorama desirable and make perfect sense according to you lot. o.O

Skyhiker
Umm, what a pointless conversation. Geeze, just make your models and be content.

Ben M
This looks like it'd work well with the b5n2: Carrier Crew Pilots & Officers (Border Model BR-006, 1:35)

The Blytonian
Doesn't look anything like vehicular armour to me. RTFQ.

Bogicevic Vladimir
Blytonian, from your point of view, it's ok to collect 1/32 aircraft and 1/35 vehicles in the same time but its not ok to have them all in the same scale?
Maybe English is not my native language but I understand it well enough to see that your eloqunce in it is pointless if you are using it to make unlogical arguments. Same goes for fitting "vehicular armour?!" on Akagi deck.
Where and how are we going to "fit" our models is not important. What is important is fun we have doing that. So, can you have your fun and let me have mine without you forcing your opinion?

Kesa Tiho
Thats the same as just being confused to as why theres 1:84 scale models

Kesa Tiho
I dont want to be negative but i have to agree with @skyhiker, just build your models

John Hughes
FYI, the new hide feature works. I've just blocked a second user.

Kesa Tiho
@john im guessing this guy but who was the first user? What did they do?

Kesa Tiho
Just curious

Soeren R.
@Bogicevic Vladimir
Just ignore those people... The only thing those guys want is attention and in the end you discuss this childish stuff on their level....

Let the folks build what they want and even if its a 1/35 aircraft!!! - which I will also do too, because i love IJN stuff and the Border kits are really nice 😉

Lex Jassies
It's actually special when you know that major companies like Renwall and Monogram (and probably more) made their military models in 1:32 scale until Tamiya came onto the market with military models in the then new 1:35 scale in the 1960s. After a number of years this became the standard.
So if Tamiya had also made their military models in the then common 1:32 scale.........?

Kate Ward
I'm happy and excited to see aircraft in 1/35 scale and I hope other manufacturers jump on the bandwagon. The discrepancy between armor and aircraft, the inability to just collect everything in one scale, has bugged me since I first began modeling back in 1989. (And I have to build a Kate because it's named after me ^_^) According to the post office my kit will be delivered on Saturday and I can't wait to start building it. I plan to get their Zero too when it comes out, and I hope they do some American counterparts soon--I'd love any of a Hellcat, Wildcat, Dauntless or Devastator in this scale.

Alexander Grivonev
@Lex: the story goes that Mr. Tamiya initially made a motorised Panther tank which could fit an electric motor and a pair of batteries. It sold so well that he decided to make other tank models in the same scale. When the Panther model was measured it happened to be around 1/35th the size of the real tank. From then on this scale took off for military models and other manufacturers followed suit. That's what I meant if he made his first Panther model slightly bigger we would live in peace and harmony. 1:35 is just so odd, it doesn't fit anywhere. 1:36 would be half of 1:72 at least.

Alexander Grivonev
But really why cares, "make models not war", or what ever John Lennon said back then

Lex Jassies
Thanks for this detailed information Alexander.