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1:144 scale aircraft

1:144 scale aircraft

Postby General_Lee » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:20 am

I'm in the middle of building a 1:144 scale Handley Page Hastings for my Father in Law as he jumped from them when he served in the parachute regiment.
I noticed that FoW uses 1:144 scale aircraft for the game and the thought of building a Diorama instead of just the model kit started forming.
I was wondering how the FoW figures look against the planes scale wise, Are they much larger than the scale? If anyone had planes and paras that they could take a picture of together it would be really appreciated.
Thanks for any help
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Re: 1:144 scale aircraft

Postby DaBoss » Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:09 am

General_Lee wrote:I noticed that FoW uses 1:144 scale aircraft for the game and the thought of building a Diorama instead of just the model kit started forming.


Yep the FoW Planes are 1:144 but the Infantry and Tanks are 1:100 - having the smaller scale works for the planes as they are just a marker to show the flight coming in to attack and visually looks OK when photographed.

I've got a mix of 1:100 and 1:144 scale aircraft in my collection.

But for a Diorama - not sure it would work.
I've seen some other manufacturers HORSA gliders for the game and they were done in 1:100 scale and as expected very large on the table top.
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Re: 1:144 scale aircraft

Postby General_Lee » Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:56 am

Thanks, I thought there might be a bit of a scale problem.
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Re: 1:144 scale aircraft

Postby Basilius » Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:50 pm

Again, sorry if this is a bit useless due to it being an old post.

http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Cat ... tegoryID=1

This site does decent 12mm scale stuff, which is what 1:144 equates to, including paras. I know its probably too late, but there you go.
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Re: 1:144 scale aircraft

Postby General_Lee » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:48 am

It is a little late but thanks for the link. I might well pick up some of the Para support company for another project.
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