1/76 scale and 1/48 scale

1/76 scale: VERY VERY SMALL. But also very cheap. I bought a 1/76 Tiger I and a 1/76 Sherman Firefly for under $20, with enough left over to buy about 2 paints. I have only finished the construction and the base color of paint, and am convinced that it won't be easy to put on the rest of the paint.
Other than that, I have only one comment: do NOT buy the Airfix 1/76 Tiger I. The pieces were made very sloppily; there were little tabs (about the same size as numbering ones) almost everywhere. Very annoying.

1/48 scale: About the same as 1/35, my normal scale. However, the only 1/48 model I have (a Firefly IC) had 1 very unusual part: the hull was made of die-cast metal, "to add realistic weight and balance" which, from my perspective, was unnecesary and just made it annoying when handling different sub-assemblies.

My aerial scale model collection of two.

So far, I have an impressive number of aircraft models: 2. That includes one F-15 Eagle, and one A-10 warthog. I will say a couple things about each.



Those large pod-things under the wings ARE NOT BOMBS.
They are external fuel tanks, so this plane could fly further without refueling.

 First, the F-15 Eagle: a profficient fighter, mediocre air-strike, and not very good bomber. I can't name very many technical stats about it off hand (unlike the A-10), but I do know that it was a very excellent fighter when it was made, and has, since then, turned into a low altitude strike aircraft (Not to be confused with an attack aircraft).




From here, you can see 5 of the 6-8 air-air missiles.




Second, the A-10: A terrifyingly excellent attack plane, built around its main gun, not its thousands of pounds of missiles/bombs. Its main gun, however, probably posed a huge problem in its inception: you can't just mount a 7-barrel, 35mm chaingun on anything. That said, it had its advantages, like being able to provide close air support and blow up tanks, hence one of its nicknames, the tankbuster. The only plane that followed the same principal rule (if it can have a larger gun, put one on; if it can't, put on more guns/rockets/missiles/bombs) was the Henschel He-129, used by Nazi Germany during WWII. The He-129E (experimental) had four 20mm machineguns, but that was not sufficient, so the He-129A had four 30mm machineguns. The B and C versions just had upgraded mechanisms for the machineguns. Later though, they decided that a 30mm round couldn't take out very many types of tanks, so they put a single, nose-mounted 75mm self-loading cannon.



Here is the A-10, showing off its impressive armament.

Look at all the bombs! (Left to right: two 500lb bombs then three Hellfire missiles).