"1/600 mm WW2 aircraft" Topic

Who makes the nicer stuff? Pico? O8? or TD?

Pico and O8 are the same miniatures – Pico Armor carries O8's 1:600 range. In my opinion, the O8 stuff is both cheaper and better quality, though you can't go wrong either way! Have fun.

Mike

Definitely horses for courses – O8's tends to be more accurately scaled than TD's (chiefly because of the very hard metal O8 use – it casts thinner so takes finer details, although it's also rather tough on knives / files and undercoat brushes.) The flipside is that often makes them harder to paint.

As a reasonable painter, and a fan of ink washes or the dip, I find TD's slightly chunkier and impressionistic style, and fairly deep etching, make them much easier to paint to a decent standard than O8's models. If I was a genuinely first rate manual highlight style painter, though, I suspect O8 would be my preference. Really it's a question of taste and style more than either necessarily being better or worse.

[Disclaimer: I do stock TD, so you might view me as biased. I will say that Tumbling Dice's models are the only reason I started doing decals though. My entire career as a decal manufacturer is an accidental progression from falling in love with the TD range as a gamer, and deciding that in the absence of decals available for them, I'd better find the right sort of printer and make my own. So yeah, I genuinely rate them…. ;-) ]

Dom is spot on, as is Mike.

TD has a much more extensive range currently, but OO is adding new items pretty regularly as well. Just not fast enough for my tastes.

I agree Mako, of late they have gotten away from planes (NONE this month) and gotten into different scales and Sci-Fi. Still can't figure out why they don't make a P-51D, a Mosquito, a P-38 yet they make real-life junk planes like the Whirlwind or the Battle

So…..what I'm hearing is get Pico first the TD for the planes Pico doesn't carry?

No I would go TD and then the O8 ones for what TD doesn't do. To be honest if you go the first way you are still going to have to use TD for a lot of things

For instance no P-38, bubble canopy P-47/P-51 or Four engined bombers, only one JAAF bomber. If you want flying boats or any transport other than the Ju-52 you have to go TD; jets the same. O8 does some Poles and French plus a reasonable amount of Italians. TD does more of each plus a few Dutch and other minor nations.

Now to be honest TD has been around for a lot longer than O8 but the size difference in ranges is really significant. And with O8's slow release rate I don't see them catching up anytime soon.

Fatman

For the P47 and P51, I would not go with TD.

The wings on them are horrible, and they need to be redone, in my humble opinion, since they don't look anything like the real aircraft.

Two of the worst aircraft they produce.

The OO and Skytrex minis (now avail. thru Heroics and Ros) are much better.