The Little World

There’s only the biggest model…yet.

For everyone, whether they be manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or builder, there is never an end point in the progression of the scale model kit.

The factory may start out making 1:144 scale models of Piper Cubs, but if these sell they will be onto the next larger prototype for the new release – and then it will be a slightly bigger scale – and eventually they will be issuing 1:8 scale B-36 bombers.

To save costs, these will be in plastic baggies…about the size of a lounge-room sofa. You’ll be buying litre bottles of Contacta.

Occasionally the disease will take a different turn. The manufacturing chain of circumstance will start with a larger model and then pantograph and cad-cam it down smaller and smaller. The buyer will follow and eventually go half blind trying to put the coffee cups on the crew’s break table in the mess.

The odd thing will be the fact that the price of the miniscule model will not be less than the one the sequence started with.