A question of scale

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Neil Shuck in Editorial // 1 Comment

You may remember a couple of days ago, I talked about receiving Over The Channel, a campaign for fighting the Battle of Britain for the Check Your 6! rules, and I was undecided about what scale of aircraft I was going to use…

…well, after reading the book, it ended up being an easy decision.

The book contains a total of 18 scenarios. If you want to fight all of them, you need the following aircraft:

Royal Air Force:

9 x Spitfire I
9 x Hurricane I
6 x Fairey Battle
3 x Bolton-Paul Defiant
4 x Blenheim IF
6 x Blenheim IV
3 x Spitfire II

Luftwaffe:

10 x Ju 88
13 x Do17
12 x Ju 87
8 x He 111
8 x Me Bf 110C
8 x Me 109E
12 x BR.20M
8 x Cr. 42

…thats a grand total of 119 aircraft, including 65 bombers.

Much as I like 1/300th scale aircraft, considering that fighters cost £1 each, and bombers can be anything from £2-£3 each, from a purely economic point of view, there is only one decision to make – 1/600th scale.

Even then, you are still looking at a bill in excess of £50 for all the aircraft. Another project to complete in stages, I think…