How come most aircraft are made in 1/48 or 1/72 and not in 1/35?

Hi ave,
I imagine it has to do with the room the end user, us modellers, have to store or display the models.
Obviuosly the 1/72nd allows many models in a confined space and 1/48th more detail but less models. 1/35th might be too big for most of us.
Any other reasons out there?
Cheers
Peter

Imagine a 1/35 SCUD Launcher which is a foot long. Compare that to the F-117 in 1/48 which is STILL longer than the 1/35 SCUD Launcher. Imagine if both of them are in 1/35

What I don't get is why aircraft are in 1/32 scale and AFV are in 1/35. Wouldn't it make sense to make it one scale ?? You could make some really neat dioramas then.

My best bet again is the storage space. See, only a few 1/32 and 1/24 crafts have been developed unless you wanna put a 1/24 Harrier with a 1/24 Enzo Ferrari. That doesn't make sense either. Maybe some members have better opinions.

1/72 scale was based on the solid identification models used in WWII. Airfix pioneered standardizing to this scale in the late 50's early 60's. American companies had been doing box scale, or whatever scale fit in the box size for the retail shelf and Revell saw the light about the time they released their first Memphis Belle (B-17F) around 1962 or 63. Monogram standardized on 1/48. I don't know why they chose that size but they needed a larger scale since many of their releases of the early 60's had working features that needed the larger size to accomodate the dropping bomb, retactable gear and folding wings.
I've never understood the 1/32-1/35 division, since figures were being produced in 54mm (approximately 1/32) before the big influx of armor models. It also seems bizarre that Tamiya, with all its 1/35 figures and armor would release 1/32 aircraft.

What gets me is why they didn't use 1/36? That would keep a mathematical standard based on 12's. That would be too simple #:-)

The Japanese use the metric system.
But I still don't understand the "why?" of the different scales. Especially 1/32", and 1/35". Why not just one?
Will we ever know?

I'm just glad to see more and more helicopters coming out in 1/35th scale.

Don