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At 1:8 an aircraft stops being a shelf model and becomes furniture. A single-engined fighter in this ratio spans well over a metre, so tooling is reserved for exceptional collector projects rather than regular releases, and anyone building one needs floor space, a plan for transport and a very steady approach to painting large flat surfaces. The appeal is obvious: at this size nothing is suggested, everything is modelled, from rib tapes to instrument bezels. It is the extreme end of aircraft modelling and it behaves accordingly. A wing this large is finished the way a car body is, in thin coats over a surface sanded genuinely flat, and the biggest size at which that stays a weekend job rather than a campaign is 1:24 aircraft model kits. Every scale of airframe, from pocket size upwards, is sorted in aircraft model kits.