1/700 n 1/720 ship question...

[Army of One]

Dear learned friends.....I have not dabbled with ships much.....apart from a purist n a ruler.....is there much difference between a ship of either scale.....say a Kuznetsov in 720 n a Minsk in 700.......would they look to different side by side.....I been trying to sort the maths out.....visually I'd say they where ok.....

[Weaver]

Well the difference is roughly 3%, which should give you an idea. Some supposedly identical-scale kits of the same thing are different by more than 3%!

You might notice it if you start putting 1/700th and 1/720th bits on the same ship, but even then a lot of detail in things this small is pretty crude and inaccurate anyway. I've been a bit surprised by how crude some of the detail on ships this size is, even from "quality" manufacturers.

[Army of One]

Harold......many thanks.....just to build n put in my new cabinet....I don't think they to outta scale to put on the same shelf....I'll prob be the only one who knows out of all the people that will see them.....Maltese Navy....!!!!

[sandiego89]

I have found that if you put 1/700 aircraft on a 1/720 aircraft carrier, or vice versa you do notice it a little bit- especially if you have 1/700 and 1/720 aircraft side by side on the flight deck.  A casual oberserver would likely not notice, but it would slightly bother a trained eye. Generally close enough. 

[Army of One]

Cool.....! That's what I was hoping for.....it will be all the same a/c on the ships so that ain't a worry.....

[Thorvic]

You can actually get a much better 1/700 Kuznetsov BTW along with a seperate airgroup for it by Trumpeter, so you can have Yak-141s on Minsk and Sea Flankers or Fulcrums on Kuznetsov.

[Army of One]

I got the awesome Trumpeter 1/700 soviet airgroup already.....got an  1/720 Kuznetsov an looking at getting the trumpeter Minsk in 1/700......thanks for the heads up.....

[Army of One]

Woohoo...! Would appear to have won a 1/700 Trumpeter Minsk from evil bay.....for £5....!!! Seems like a bargain.....

[Joe C-P]

I mix the scales freely, and the 3% difference easily falls within the natural variations in shrinkage of parts and mis-sized pieces. Plenty of bits are oversized in this scale range, so the difference doesn't make that much of a difference.

[dragon]

Harold......many thanks.....just to build n put in my new cabinet....I don't think they to outta scale to put on the same shelf....I'll prob be the only one who knows out of all the people that will see them.....Maltese Navy....!!!!

I am curious, where would one be able to purchase Maltese Air Force (or equivalent) roundels and Fin Flashes? 

[PR19_Kit]

Harold......many thanks.....just to build n put in my new cabinet....I don't think they to outta scale to put on the same shelf....I'll prob be the only one who knows out of all the people that will see them.....Maltese Navy....!!!!

I am curious, where would one be able to purchase Maltese Air Force (or equivalent) roundels and Fin Flashes? 

Give me time, I'm doing some....... 

[dragon]

Harold......many thanks.....just to build n put in my new cabinet....I don't think they to outta scale to put on the same shelf....I'll prob be the only one who knows out of all the people that will see them.....Maltese Navy....!!!!

I am curious, where would one be able to purchase Maltese Air Force (or equivalent) roundels and Fin Flashes? 

Give me time, I'm doing some....... 

If that is the case, I am looking for 1/72 scale Real World Maltese Roundel and Fin flashes.  I am planning on painting and decaling a 1/72 scale aircraft differently.

[Army of One]

Dragon......I have made a couple of kits and posted them on here....look up Maltese Su25 or Mi28 Havoc by me. The decals on those were produced by Thedarkmaster but I think he is off at the moment with the new addition to his family. Kit is helping me out with another run of decals....I still have a few left over from the first run but have a lot of kits for my Maltese AF........be interesting to see yours when its done....

[dragon]

Dragon......I have made a couple of kits and posted them on here....look up Maltese Su25 or Mi28 Havoc by me. The decals on those were produced by Thedarkmaster but I think he is off at the moment with the new addition to his family. Kit is helping me out with another run of decals....I still have a few left over from the first run but have a lot of kits for my Maltese AF........be interesting to see yours when its done....

Not wanting to hijack the thread, but the decals would be for something I would be shocked about if no one else on this site had thought about it before on this site- basically a black F-16 (possibly one of the Israeli F-16 kits) with full color roundels and fin flash.  You don't have to be Sam Spade to figure out where I am going with this.......

[Army of One]

I have a few Airfix F16's in the stash to be made into Maltese Falcons......at least one will be a two seater....I have some of the decals in a low vis twotone grey.......