{"id":1038,"date":"2018-08-13T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T01:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=1038"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:43:23","slug":"area-88-1-100-scale-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/area-88\/area-88-1-100-scale-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Area 88 – 1\/100 scale projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To be honest, 1\/100 scale modelling is not really my scale of choice.\u00a0 That’s hardly unsurprising as it’s probably the least popular (overall) of any of the “main” airplane modelling scales (1\/144, 1\/100, 1\/72, 1\/48, 1\/32, 1\/24).\u00a0 So why do I have a project section devoted to it?<\/p>\n

It’s all because of figures actually.<\/p>\n

In 1982, right at the height of the popularity of the Area 88<\/em> manga, a Japanese company named Takara began releasing a series of 1\/100 scale airplane models based on the hit series.\u00a0 This release was special for two reasons: first, many of the kits were ‘new tools’ (meaning they were new products, not just re-boxings of older moulds), the second was that 8 out of 10 of the kits included 1\/24 scales figures of the characters that fly the planes.<\/p>\n

So, even though originally I wasn’t particularly attracted to the scale, the inclusion of figures really did it for me.\u00a0 But where would this scale fit between my 1\/72 and 1\/44 scale projects? I didn’t just want to duplicate the same things, just in a different scale.\u00a0 What I hit on was “in-flight” rather than “in-action”.\u00a0 Whereas my\u00a01\/72 projects are as detailed depictions as I can reasonably create of the planes on the tarmac, and the\u00a01\/44 projects are mini-dioramas of action scenes from the manga. I decided to depict these builds as being elegantly in-flight alongside their figures where applicable (or manageable).<\/p>\n

Besides the ten Takara kits, I also have plans to include some kits selected from the 1\/100 Tamiya range.\u00a0 Currently my project lis is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Box Art<\/b><\/td>\nAirplane<\/b><\/td>\nPilot<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nF-20 (F-5G) Tigershark<\/td>\nShin Kazama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nF-100D Super Saber<\/td>\nMickey Simon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nF-8E Crusader<\/td>\nShin Kazama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nKfir-C2<\/td>\nSaki Vashtahl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nF-14A Tomcat<\/td>\nMickey Simon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nAV-8A Harrier<\/td>\nKim Aba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nA-4M Skyhawk<\/td>\nCampbell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nYak-38 Forger<\/td>\nA.G.F. pilot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nMiG-27 Flogger-D<\/td>\nCol. Kilvic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nA-10A Thunderbolt II<\/td>\nGreg Gates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nFiat G.91<\/td>\nMario<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nB.A.C. Lightning<\/td>\nEscape Killers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nMiG-21 Fishbed<\/td>\nGary “Mac” MacBurn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nF-4E Phantom II<\/td>\n“Phoenix” Charlie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nMiG-19 Farmer<\/td>\nA.G.F. pilot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nF-104G Starfighter<\/td>\nSera “Siren” Barnack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nHS Buccaneer Mk.2<\/td>\nCol. Roundell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/td>\nJ35F Draken<\/td>\nShin Kazama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nF-105D Thunderchief<\/td>\nNyugen Van Cho<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be honest, 1\/100 scale modelling is not really my scale of choice.\u00a0 That’s hardly unsurprising as it’s probably the least popular (overall) of any of the “main” airplane modelling scales (1\/144, 1\/100, 1\/72, 1\/48, 1\/32, 1\/24).\u00a0 So why do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1038","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1038\/revisions\/7568"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}