Hi kaufschtick,
I picked up a couple of the European scheme Ju88's, they're OK say 7.5/10on the old score the only let down is the ventral blister below the cockpit is all opaque plastic, no window details there and no guns, although in this scale not so much a big deal. well worth the 5 bucks plus postage a piece I paid for them.
Now I did have a new thought on how to game the Pacific air war with models for this game,1/350 scale! I was trawling through some catalogues in my local hobby shop and saw that Trumpeter makes a model of the USS Hornet in that scale and the aircraft are actually available for sale seperatly. They come 10 of the same type to a box and looking on Ebay the prices are all over the place. There are Wildcats, Avengers, Dauntless, Corsairs, Devastators, B25's, Kingfishers, Walrus (for some British ships) There are also lots of different US prewar aircraft as well. Then looking through a Hasagawa catalogue I see a model of the Akagi in 1/350 and they also sell the aircraft seperately each box contains 3 Zeros, 3 Vals and 6 Kates? Now I know we have most of these planes in quantity in 1/144 already, but I was thinking of games with a larger looking "battlefield" scenarios where you have to intercept flights of torpedo/divebombers or even the placement of model ships on the tabletop "3D targets"......... Hmmm theres a thought...... Waves of Vals flying across the table enruite to target in a robot like straight line and each player flys in a single Wildcat and has to get a higher score than the other player and survive at the end....... could also work as asolitair scenario too. The other player takes control of the Vals firing
I wasn't thinking that by reducing the scale so to to initiate the addition of more aircraft on the tabletop as I can't see mass battles working with the current rules it would bog down quickly, but more a case of making the game look more to scale when you are playing say.... an anti-shipping scenario.