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1/300 aircraft

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:52 pm
by Essex Boy
Just a quickie.....

I'm in the RAF museum......bit good.

What company makes the best 1/300 scale aircraft please?

Iain

Re: 1/300 aircraft

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:16 pm
by Count Belisarius
Pendraken do Raiden which are nice but 1/285.

Re: 1/300 aircraft

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:33 pm
by Paul
A company called "Airpower" used to be very nice, QRF marketted them.. I wish I knew where my old ones went
My first real wargaming was 1/300 Aerial using the old Newbury rules. We used H&R back then.
Raiden are very good, very similar to the Airpower ones IIRC.

Re: 1/300 aircraft

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:58 pm
by Slugbalancer
Raiden are generally excellent. For 1/300 Scotia Grendel & H&R have larger ranges but are very variable in their quality.
I believe the original owners of Raiden produced the Airpower range under the name of B&M. They just switched scales from 1/300 to 1/285 when producing the Raiden aircraft.

Re: 1/300 aircraft

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:12 pm
by Essex Boy
Needless to say, I'm enormously grateful.

Thank you.

E

Re: 1/300 aircraft

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:11 pm
by Paul
Essex Boy wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:52 pm Just a quickie.....

I'm in the RAF museum......bit good.

What company makes the best 1/300 scale aircraft please?

Iain
I'm curious of your plans :D

If you want to recreate massive waves of Luftwaffe Bombers etc... then the Odzial Osmy and Tumbling dice 1/600 are pretty nice too and worth considering.

Re: 1/300 aircraft

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:53 am
by Slugbalancer
I agree that 1/600 are a good way of doing large scale battles such as the Battle of Britain or the 8th Air Force bombing of Germany in '44/'45.

Re: 1/300 aircraft

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:08 am
by Essex Boy
Thank you gents, but my plan is simply to paint a few planes for the fun of it.......somewhat inspired by Mr Slug's recent piccies.

Iain