1/28 Scale

[FujimiLover]

Hello there. Ever since 1999, I've been familiar with the growth of 1/28 scale RC car racing. Particularly, the Kyosho Mini-Z series.

Just recently, like last week, I discovered there were a few plastic model kit's in 1/28 scale. Check out ebay item number 300353858436.

A very cool racing wide-bodied Ferrari 365BB Gr5 of which almost has a Koenig flare to it. This being 1/28 in scale, would be perfect use for guess what?

A Kyosho Mini-Z racer!

So my question to you is this. How many 1/28 scale model kit's were made and what kind of cars were/are available at this scale?

Is 1/28 more common than I thought? And can you guy's post link's, pic's to more kit's in this odd scale? How odd is this scale?

Edited October 21, 2009 by FujimiLover

[Harry P.]

Personally I've never seen a 1/28 plastic kit. So my guess would be... not so common!

[Modelmartin]

They were all Japanese and from the 70s as far as I know. My guess is that there weren't too many. Entex sold some of them over here and were mostly sports or sports racing cars. I had a 1/28 Porsche 935/78 protoype at one time. It was the only kit ever made of that version of that car in plastic. Keep on searching on Ebay and you will probably find a bunch of them over time and I would venture that you wouldn't have to pay much for them.

[FloridaBoy]

I thought I have been around the block by now, and up until this minute, I never heard of 1/28 scale. My first impression is the old fuddy duddy in me, all we need is another scale. But as usual, I learn and adjust, and secretly wish the money, energy, creativity and effort those manufacturers spent should have gone to 1/25.

All I hear from the manufacturers in both of my hobbies is "tooling cost, tooling cost, tooling cost" as the #1 prohibitive in coming out with new kits, but there always seems to be enough lying around for the eclectic stuff. Just when I wanted my 49 olds.

Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman

[FujimiLover]

Thank's guys. I beleive that while 1/28 is now a common scale for RC's, it's not so common for model kit's. But, it would be cool to find some unusual model's at the right scale.

Ton's of people have adapted 1/24 and 1/25th scale model cars to the Mini-Z chassis, but I like to stick with the 1/28 scale theme. So, when I came across these kit's I was amazed they even existed! Plus, that particular Ferrari model is really cool looking!

[FujimiLover]

Thank's guys. I beleive that while 1/28 is now a common scale for RC's, it's not so common for model kit's. But, it would be cool to find some unusual model's at the right scale.

Ton's of people have adapted 1/24 and 1/25th scale model cars to the Mini-Z chassis, but I like to stick with the 1/28 scale theme. So, when I came across these kit's I was amazed they even existed! Plus, that particular Ferrari model is really cool looking!

[Rider]

I was surprised as well with how many different kits were on ebay in that scale. My LHS has a couple; one is an older Lincon and the other is an older Lamo. Revell has done a WWI bi-plane series in 1/28 I'm not sure how many but I have three.

[FujimiLover]

If anybody can find the 917 I'd like to have one. We have that model in the 1/43 scale Dnano, but not in the Mini-Z. So far the only Le Man's cars we have in the Mini-Z series is the Porsche 962, and The Mazda 575 I think it is. We will soon be getting some Sabber Le Man's car with the new MR03 chassis coming out soon. Sorry, I don't have the exact name on hand, but I'll edit it when I find it.

So, having a 917 in the proper scale would be cool.

For you model builders, you might want to check out a site called http://www.mini-z-bar.com/. I suggest the site because there are a lot of clever models on there that have been adapted for RC use.