Visiting Aviation World to buy a textbook for my flying course & to check out their PIA models I noticed that plastic snap togethers are much cheaper than their diecasts.
my pros for the snap together's are that they are much bigger & cheaper than diecasts and their colours last much longer.
I got my Emirates 200ER in dubai half my lifetime ago & it's colour is more or less still the same.
With diecast I find colour can easily come off and get scratched easily.
But taking a second look at diecasts, they look more like the real thing. Probably cause the material they are made of is closer to the real thing.
Comparing the wings of a diecast & snap together the die cast wings look so much more realistic & accurate as opposed to the plastic snap-together wings.
As a kid I used to collect shwabak diecast planes which were about scale 1:600
I think if you're looking for realism and maximum size the diecast scale 1:400 are the best.
What are other peoples opinion on this?
Diecast vs snap together pros & cons
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IMO, 1/400. A large variety of airlines have been done in this scale. And also some of the best moulds are in scale 1/400 with rolling rubber tires....etcinducedrag wrote:Which is the best scale in die-cast models to collect 1/500 or 1/400 etc
Though there is nothing wrong with scale 1/500 also.
Look at these below websites:
http://www.diecastaircraftforum.com/
http://www.400scalehangar.net/forums/