Welcome to Episode 54 Sponsored by Goodman Models.   Hosts Stuart Clark Geoff Heyland – secretary of IPMS London, retired-ish and fairly long time (but sporadic) modeller. Thanks to our latest Patreon Supporters: Mike Tally *************************************** LATEST NEWS A new Modelling podcast is out Plastic Posse Podcast The Golden Sprue Awards https://www.goldensprueawards.com/ Scale Model World UK has been cancelled for 2020 https://ipmsuk.org/scale-modelworld/cancellation-of-scale-modelworld-2020/ https://ipmsuk.org/viewpoint/spilling-the-beans/ Wonderfest will return in 2021 https://www.facebook.com/211585008915512/posts/4315322458541726 Atlantis Toy and Hobby announces an agreement with Peanuts World Wide for Snoopy model kits. Full press release Lots of new content posted to the website scalemodelpodcast.com *************************************** MAILBAG Jay asks Hi Stuart. I am behind on my listening and just learned that Anthony is cutting back his time. Could you pass a question along to him, please? “Which of the Macross plane model kits are the best as far as detail and quality??” Thank you for your dedication to our hobby and the work you put into SMP!! Anthony’s reply Hi Jay, Anthony here. You can not go wrong with a 1/72 or 1/48 VF-1 kit from Hasegawa, for quality or price! There’s also very nice kits from Bandai who maintain very high-quality kits of the more current series! Hope you enjoy it!   Wayne Peters Hi guys, just been listening to Ep 52. Re the new release Italeri 1/9 German Infantryman, I’m pretty sure this is a re-pop of the old Esci kit (#6001) which I have somewhere in my stash! And re the HobbyBoss XM706E2, they also did an M706 (kit # 82148 from 2008) and Verlinden did an XM76E2 way back in 1988 (kit # 369). Frank Ramsay First I want to say I’m going to miss hearing Anthony every episode, I think he’s been a great co-host.  But I completely understand life comes first.   And I’m glad he will still be involved doing the interviews. I was about to type up a big discussion on model railroad scales but decided it wasn’t really that interesting.  So all I’ll say on the subject is that you mentioned at least one of the odder scales (I think it was On30) where the train is a different scale than the track and you wondered why that was.  The reason these exist is because not every actual railroad uses the same distance between rails and if you want an accurate scale model railroad of such a railway then you need these odd scales. You also asked us to write about our thoughts on constant-scale modeling.  For me, I’m “sort of” a constant-scale modeller in that I have a specific scale for each type of subject:  Aircraft (early flight) I do in 1:32, Military Vehicles of all types are 1:35, Maschinen Krieger is 1:20,  Gunpla is Master Grade (aka 1:100).