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Mark58 1/48 airfield structures
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Posted: Friday, October 06, 2006 - 03:03 PM UTC


Marc Toillié, a French craftsman is currently developing a complete range of 1/48 airfield structures under the name Mark58. When I speak of complete range, I mean over 100 references!

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
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Posted: Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 12:43 AM UTC
Hi Jean-Luc

100 references? - do you mean 100 individual items in the range?! If so, that sounds an incredible source for airfield dioramas and vignettes!

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 02:26 AM UTC
Nice one Jean-Luc. Some fabulous looking kits.
Only one downside to these great looking dio accessories, i love building dio's but it will mean I'll have less space on the shelves :-) .
Andy
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Posted: Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 01:19 AM UTC

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do you mean 100 individual items in the range?!



Hi Rowan!

Yes that's exact... 100 individual items!

I fact M. Toillié as designed his modules so you can put them together yourself. Rather than having a single base, he offers several variations. Together with the wooden walls, that makes a lot of possibilities for Luftwaffe dioramas for example.

Below you have a good example of the Mark58 "philosophy": three variations of plankings and three wooden walls in three different lenght... but there are also different heights.








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Only one downside to these great looking dio accessories, i love building dio's but it will mean I'll have less space on the shelves



Hi Andy!

Display bases are not necessarily big (but they can if you want ). The PSP base below doesn't takes away more space than the aircraft model itself.



I only build dioramas since a few month now but I'm convinced a model looks better even on a small base rather than on nothing. At a show, wich models draw more the attention? Those with a display base or put into a diorama...

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 01:44 AM UTC
Hi again Jean-Luc

What can I say?... I want them! :-) This sounds a fantastic range, has M. Toillié got international distribution sorted out, or should readers contact his company directly?

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 10:26 PM UTC

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has M. Toillié got international distribution sorted out, or should readers contact his company directly?



Hi Rowan!

M. Toillié didn't started selling his products yet. He plans to start doing so in January 2007. The news on Aeroscale is only a teaser
When things get more interesting, I'll make another visit to Mark58 and I'll do a full feature!
I said to him that Aeroscale had a lot of "experts" and maybe we could help him by providing infos and pictures of ground objects. Why not WW1 for example...

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Monday, October 09, 2006 - 08:07 AM UTC
This is great. At last 1/48 elements for AC dioramas. It would be great if Mark 58 could sell his products via Internet.
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Posted: Monday, October 09, 2006 - 09:32 AM UTC
Good googley moogley!
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Posted: Monday, October 09, 2006 - 03:47 PM UTC

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Good googley moogley!



Hi Fred!

What does this mean? Remember I'm French... :-)

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Monday, October 09, 2006 - 03:52 PM UTC
And I'm Swede..... :-) :-) Those airfield structures looks awesome Jean-Luc!
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Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 11:27 PM UTC
These look stunning!
Im sure when I get around to building one of my 1:48 subjects I'll be using one of the plinths to set it off!
Any plans for scaling any of this down to 1:72?
Cant wait for it to become available!
Nige
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Posted: Friday, October 13, 2006 - 03:43 AM UTC

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Any plans for scaling any of this down to 1:72?



Hi Nigel!

I don't think Mark58 will scale his products down to 1/72... yet.

It's all for us 1/48 builders!

Jean-Luc
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