ggriffaw
Sr Member
They seem to mostly choose the scale of the ships to keep the footprint of the model fairly consistent. Larger ships get a smaller scale. Smaller ships get a larger scale. Most fighters are 1/72 except the snowspeeder because it is a smaller ship.Just a reminder - Bandai is a company based in Japan, primarily focused on the Japanese market. Living space in Japan is tight, so it's in Bandai's best interests to produce smaller kits for their target consumer base. My guess is that the smaller 1/144 scale kits sell better than 1/72 and 1/48 scale kits in Japan for this reason, but I have no evidence to support that.
Think of it this way--Zvezda's Star Destroyer kit, at nearly 2' long, is impressive, but a Japanese modeler can put 10 Bandai kits in that same amount of shelf space.
Unfortunately that probably means an AT-AT will be a smaller scale than 1/48 so it will be out of scale with the snowspeeder and AT-ST.
Even most of the large figures probably don't take up more shelf space than the 1/72 ships, but they are much taller.
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