Are you a 1/72 scale collector? (1 Viewer)

[Peter Reuss]

Based on a different thread...I'm curious to find out how many forum people are also 1/72 scale (wargaming) folks? I know the other thread shows some cool displays.

 

[marco55]

Not 1/72 but I do collect 1/48,1/56 (28mm).
Mark

 

[aujj65]

I used to wargame in this scale many years ago then 25mm and I even tried 15mm at one point, but I sold everything to help pay for my first house. Now it's 54/60mm.

Happy days..:smile2:

Jeff

 

[Mitch]

Had airfix ones as a kid and still have thousands in the loft but, quickly got bored when I got the Britain's deetail and 1/32nd airfix passed to me from my brothers stuff. Have no interest in them now at all. they look good in the posted pics but, not for me
Mitch

 

[aujj65]

Based on a different thread...I'm curious to find out how many forum people are also 1/72 scale (wargaming) folks? I know the other thread shows some cool displays.

I used to wargame in this scale many years ago then 25mm and I even tried 15mm at one point, but I sold everything to help pay for my first house. Now it's 54/60mm.

Happy days..:smile2:

Jeff

I meant to have added that there are some excellent displays in 20mm on this forum and deserves to have it's own sub forum. {sm3}

Jeff

 

[sammy719]

I'm a 1:30 scale guy at the moment, but I really enjoy seeing the displays of the 1:72 scale models such as George's larger displays as well as some others, I think a section either for war gamers or a 1:72 scale would be a interesting topic on this forum...Sammy

 

[theBaron]

Not really, as far as figures go. I have some miscellaneous sets in my stash, Airfix, Zvezda, Italeri (I think), but they're intended more as accompanyments to my 1/72 models )eg, 2 boxes of Airfix USAAF personnel). Not that I don't appreciate well-done Braille scale figures, but I prefer 54mm for mine. I don't go larger, either.

Now, for model kits, I had told myself that I wasn't going to get into 1/72, when I got back into scale modeling, I was going to stick with 1/48. But I picked up the odd kit or two, and eventually 1/72 became a large part of my kit stash. There are a lot of great kits of great subjects in 1/72, from classic Airfix and Revell kits, to contemporary makers from Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Plus, it is easier to display a 1/72 piece than a 1/32 aircraft.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Harper (aka Spitfrnd)]

Not yet but I certainly would enjoy seeing more coverage of them for the day when I may be. I voted yes to encourage that result.

 

[Deitz]

No, I do not collect them, but I do not collect many ranges or sizes. However, I do enjoy seeing all of the various displays by my fellow forum members.

I would not mind seeing a 1/72 section on the forum.

Brian

 

[swalterh]

Not really, as far as figures go. I have some miscellaneous sets in my stash, Airfix, Zvezda, Italeri (I think), but they're intended more as accompanyments to my 1/72 models )eg, 2 boxes of Airfix USAAF personnel). Not that I don't appreciate well-done Braille scale figures, but I prefer 54mm for mine. I don't go larger, either.

Now, for model kits, I had told myself that I wasn't going to get into 1/72, when I got back into scale modeling, I was going to stick with 1/48. But I picked up the odd kit or two, and eventually 1/72 became a large part of my kit stash. There are a lot of great kits of great subjects in 1/72, from classic Airfix and Revell kits, to contemporary makers from Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Plus, it is easier to display a 1/72 piece than a 1/32 aircraft.

Prost!
Brad

I eventually gave into this bug as well. The armor and aircraft offerings in 1/72 became too much to resist. The Armourfast, Italeri, Pegasus and Zvezda AFV’s and other vehicles are very attractive and the ranges just keep growing. Companies like Academy and Revell have very extensive coverage of 1/72 aircraft.

 

[Obee]

Yes, I used to be, back in the 1960's when AIRFIX broght out all those wonderful boxed sets.

I used to paint them, andit was becasue of the cheap cost, and the vast amount of troops you could get on a small battlefield, that I loved them.

BUT THEN ...... AIRFIX brought out 1/32 scale figures, and they aere SO much esier to paint, so thats where my real toy soldier painting started.

I have painted a couple of 1/72, but metals.

Napoleon & Rostam Raza at Borodino 1812
by Wargames Illustrated

Royal Artillery 1815
Hinchliffe

John

 

[Naps...just Naps]

Based on a different thread...I'm curious to find out how many forum people are also 1/72 scale (wargaming) folks? I know the other thread shows some cool displays.

I don't wargame and I don't really class it as collecting but I have thousands of 1/72 Napoleonic figures which I have painted over the years and hundreds that are still waiting to be painted.
I used to love the Airfix 1/72 soldiers when I was a kid because you could form mass armies relatively cheaply and have great battles with them.
I became interested in them as an adult when I bought some Esci Napoleonic soldiers for my son. I painted them for him but he hardly played with them. Computer games were his interest.
The soldiers were boxed up and put in the loft and were forgotten about for years. I found them while clearing out the loft a few years ago and decided to have another try at painting them and I got the bug.
There was so much choice out there and so much Napoleonic coverage I was in my element.
I even built a Waterloo diorama in 18 inch square sections (which is in sections in the garage at the moment)
Unfortunately I painted without any magnification and in poor evening light so my eyesight began to suffer so I stopped painting a couple of years ago but I fully intend to get back to it when I have converted my son's now empty bedroom into the warzone^&grin and have a workbench, good lighting and some magnification.

 

[theBaron]

I eventually gave into this bug as well. The armor and aircraft offerings in 1/72 became too much to resist. The Armourfast, Italeri, Pegasus and Zvezda AFV’s and other vehicles are very attractive and the ranges just keep growing. Companies like Academy and Revell have very extensive coverage of 1/72 aircraft.

I've built a 1/72 US halftrack, by Hasegawa, and a couple of years ago, a Studebaker truck from some Easter European maker, horrible kit, with soft plastic that reacted badly to styrene glue. The truck was for a group diorama that my club did for the Region 2 IPMS show. We depicted the Red Ball Express. That made me think that if I got back into armor, it would be in 1/72.

I have a fondness for the old Revell 1/72 aircraft, too, their old designs from the 60's, when they made 1/72 their scale of choice for the US market. They're not bad kits, even for today's more demanding modeler, but they're also simple enough that you can build a nice model out of the box, with average skills. I have a number of those in my stash, from fighter kits like the P-40, P-47 and a couple of F3As, up to the P-70 kit (another case of Revell getting mileage out of a set of sprues, because it's the A-20 with some additions, in black plastic).

And this is definitely a golden age of plastic figures in 1/72. The selection has just exploded, compared to what was available when I was a kid. For Waterloo, for example, the British and the French were reasonably represented, as one might expect, but the only Prussians were the Airfix set, in the Landwehr uniforms, completely wrong for Waterloo. And there were no Austrians, Russians or allied states from either side. Then Revell started marketing Italeri products here, and the figures started to come in, gradually, but too late for me at the time.

Yes, I could definitely get into 1/72 again, but I'm committed pretty much to 54mm right now.

Prost!
Brad

 

[BlakeWR85]

Kinda glad this was brought up, every now and again I will post in the wanted classifieds looking for ACW 1/72 scale plastic that fellow-froggers want to get rid of.......and I feel terribly out of place asking

I do collect 1/72 scale ACW plastic, no metal, not really too much from other eras........
I collected these since I was a kid, it was easy to mass large armies, since I was 8 years old when the movie Gettysburg was released, I wasn't happy with small scale battles, I liked large number battles to replicate the movies (not to mention the Gettysburg Cyclorama painting had hundreds of soldiers, another source I wanted to duplicate).....so 1/72 scale plastic gave me the large numbers, small price, and space needed ^&cool

If you asked me what I do with them today, I don't really have an answer for you.......I started out with a battle of maybe 20 infantry on each side and 3 cavalry, I slowly grew the collection until I had about 300 each, 30 cavalry, some artillery. This was when I was still a kid, now that I'm older, I've collected some more and have added to my childhood collection......Now I have about 1500 infantry each side, 100+ cavalry each side, 30+ artillery pieces each side.
I don't paint them, I don't wargame with them, I don't really play with them like when I was a kid, I guess it's just me remembering/ reliving my childhood (childhood novelty cannot be replaced/replicated), sometimes I'll set them up just to see a huge mass of figures (for example, I set up a 1:1 ratio of Little Round Top, Gettysburg just to see what Chamberlain's lines would've looked like against overwhelming Confederate numbers). [Maybe I should post a picture of that next time I do that ^&grin ]

After that lengthy explanation, the answer is yes :tongue:

 

[HistoryfortheAges]

For a forum that is primarily made-up of 54mm to 60mm metal collectors, a showing of about 30% also collecting 1/72 is very respectable! I have a feeling that these smaller scales including 28mm may be a coming trend for this hobby which may or may not have seen the end to price appreciation of the 54mm to 60mm metal figures. As it was said several times, to get more people interested in this hobby, it has to be seen as affordable. If current prices are discouraging to current collectors, it has to be shocking to potential, new collectors and particularly younger collectors! {eek3}

 

[The Military Workshop]

For a forum that is primarily made-up of 54mm to 60mm metal collectors, a showing of about 30% also collecting 1/72 is very respectable! I have a feeling that these smaller scales including 28mm may be a coming trend for this hobby which may or may not have seen the end to price appreciation of the 54mm to 60mm metal figures. As it was said several times, to get more people interested in this hobby, it has to be seen as affordable. If current prices are discouraging to current collectors, it has to be shocking to potential, new collectors and particularly younger collectors! {eek3}

HFTA,
You may wish to note the 30% collecting 1/72 only represents those who have voted in this poll and not membership of this forum.

As a TS dealer my view is 1/72 or 28mm is a different hobby to TS collecting.

1/72 or 1/32 plastics certainly a good thing to get kids into soldiers and hopefully later they go on to be interested in TS's later on.

Brett

 

[theBaron]

Brett's comment jibes with observations of the wargamer shows. I see at least 3 times as many people at the Historicon/ColdWars/FallIn event, than I see at the largest toy soldier or connoisseur figure shows. One thing you see is the broad range of categories, from historical to fantasy. Our hobby has begun to move in that direction--Fantasy and Sci-fi categories are becoming more common at judged shows--and that may attract more people to collecting, who are wargamers, or builders, in categories not traditionally thought of as part of our hobby.

Prost!
Brad

 

[cantinetozzo]

Yes..i started this way at first the old Atlantic Set (here where i live they were everywhere), then Esci-Ertl and Airfix, then Revell ..at first just to play (great enormous battle landscapes with sand and 800 soldiers for sides) then to build little diorama (unfortunately lost )..now i buy the odd set by Italeri(some are really good some so and so), Zvezda (the better for sculpting) Strelets (really unique russian figures, chunky but with style, and portraying many conflicts and units) , Caesar or HAT (love their variety but not their materials, soft plastic..)..

 

[HistoryfortheAges]

HFTA,
You may wish to note the 30% collecting 1/72 only represents those who have voted in this poll and not membership of this forum.

As a TS dealer my view is 1/72 or 28mm is a different hobby to TS collecting.

1/72 or 1/32 plastics certainly a good thing to get kids into soldiers and hopefully later they go on to be interested in TS's later on.

Brett

Yes, you are correct. I jumped the gun on the statistical part.

Not sure, if a person who is interested in history and who would like to create sweeping dioramas to represent various events in history would be very likely to collect 54mm or 60mm figures at today's current prices. I certainly wouldn't. The smaller scales are a worthy option for them. If I started today in this hobby, just about all of my collection would comprise of 28mm-painted figures. They do look amazing in the dioramas that I have seen on this forum! 54mm-painted figures are another affordable option for new collectors. I don't currently have any smaller scales in my collection but I am considering it, if I shoulld decide to start a new era. We have to put things in perspective, the cost of a single, metal, painted foot figure today is similar to the cost incurred by a family of four at a fast food restaurant!

 

[The Military Workshop]

Yes, you are correct. I jumped the gun on the statistical part.

You know the old saying : "Lies, ****ed lies, and statistics" !

Have to agree about sweeping dios and Warriors dio's certainly inspiring.

I recall a producer telling me the story about a wealthy collector who called up and just said I will take
10 of everything you make. Now that is the way to be able to buy !!

As I joke to some of my collectors the fantasy if I was incredibly rich would be to have a huge gaming room and massive TS displays on table tennis tables. I would sit up high on a tennis umpires chair directing my
assistants to deploy the troops at my command.

Oh well, back to work !!

Brett