Since my daughter left home, I've been able to move from a narrow room at the front of the house to this larger, square room at the back. She's very happy living in a flat with her pet rat, Nelson, and I'm very pleased with my dedicated model room. This is where I do most of my construction, and I have another room where I can spray without worrying about paint mist landing everywhere. There's good light from the window to the left in the second photo, and plenty of shelving for prospective builds. I'm looking into building a surface around the other two sides of the room, above the shelving, where I can put my trains. Railway modelling is my genuine hobby - scale modelling has been my job for the last twelve years. I've got plans for an L-shaped layout which can grow and take shape to suit the space. There's no noise back here, except for the duelling magpies in the garden, and if I get too lonely I can take my work into the lounge. How many modellers' wives let them sand and scrape sitting on the sofa? This means I work roughly nine or ten hours most days, but that's fine with me.
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Hi, Phil! That's an interesting list. A 1/48 Sunderland would be enormous! I can see Trumpeter doing it. They seem ready to take on anything. Here's what I'd like to see: 1/32 Ki-44 Tojo, 1/32 Kate, 1/32 Val, 1/32 Raiden (updated), 1/32 Ki-100 (probably coming soon enough, knowing Hasegawa), 1/32 Yak fighters.
Oh, and I would also like to see a new 1/32 scale Shiden and Shiden-Kai as well. The old Revell 1/32 Shiden is quite good, but it's very rare and very expensive on account of said rarity. The Tomy/Swallow/Doyusha Shiden-Kai is quite good in outer surface detail, but has almost no detail in the cockpit. I'd like to see all of these kits done by Hasegawa, and my guess is they all will be...eventually. By that time we will probably have top quality 1/48 and 1/32 kits of virtually every plane anyone could want, and the only question is, will I still be alive to see them? ;-)
Ah yes, the Japanese contingent. You mention some of my favourites here. Why Hasegawa as producer though? Trumpeter are prolific now, offer tons of detail and excellent value. I would be happy with a 1/48 Ki-67 or a P1Y 'Ginga' - I like the big twins. A 1/32 scale P-39 would be interesting too. Competition is great news for those of us who get so much out of the hobby anyway. Thanks for your input George.
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