1:144 resin ship fittings serve the collectors' scale where a hull shares its shelf with large aircraft rather than with a fleet. Submarines and smaller surface craft gain most from it, since the scale gives real size to deck clutter without demanding a table of its own. Boats and submarines in the size are in 1:144 ship model kits, and castings for the rest of the fleet scales are indexed in resin ship fittings. Railings, ladders and anything that has to end up genuinely thin are better in brass than in resin at any scale, which is what 1:144 ship photo-etched parts are for.
