ok a while back i brought up the subject of scale.
and in that i sugested say 20mm
now i am mistaken in one of my assumptions i thought standard matchbox and hotweels cars were infact scaled at 20mm ie 1:72. boy was i wrong it seems. todoay i got some tank and vehicle kits in 1:64, while mongoose say their system is 1:65 scale i believe (correct me if im wrong please)
i am aslo lucky enought o have a resiegn preproduction modle of the M1 and chall. so i took the M1 and compared it to the M1 kit i purchased, and their near s damnit exact in many ways. lenght is the same bar a few micron maybe, as is width.
so where am i going with this, well another kit from same manufacturer was also 1:64 and was a hummve so in theory this is going to be inscale with rest of mongoose bits.
excelent, this now gives me a standard vehicle to take out shopping for street cars as its hard to see the scale on many toy cars these days or trust them.
so i poped into a nortmal shop called woolworths, and went to the toy cars, and compared mine to whats available, in the 99p box toy cars on blisters their were hotweels and matchbox cars (the small scale for those companies) as well as chad valley (cheepy stuff) and there was a hummvee in each range
perfect for comparison, and they all measured up through the packets as the same near as the eye can tell the same size !!!! only one with a scale underneath was the matchbox and it stated 1:64 scale brill.
i always thought matcbox where 1:72/20mm but their not infact their 25mm it seems, but then i remeber the old dark future figs !! would that be in scale, the answer NO the cars were always over sized for them for dramatical EE neffect.
the scale is perfect for street builders, but i would like confermation that what i have described isnt to far of from the truth on size.
if so my streets will be full of burnt cars.
also once this is confermed i hope it may help a few plan their streets, il try get some pics later.
and in that i sugested say 20mm
now i am mistaken in one of my assumptions i thought standard matchbox and hotweels cars were infact scaled at 20mm ie 1:72. boy was i wrong it seems. todoay i got some tank and vehicle kits in 1:64, while mongoose say their system is 1:65 scale i believe (correct me if im wrong please)
i am aslo lucky enought o have a resiegn preproduction modle of the M1 and chall. so i took the M1 and compared it to the M1 kit i purchased, and their near s damnit exact in many ways. lenght is the same bar a few micron maybe, as is width.
so where am i going with this, well another kit from same manufacturer was also 1:64 and was a hummve so in theory this is going to be inscale with rest of mongoose bits.
excelent, this now gives me a standard vehicle to take out shopping for street cars as its hard to see the scale on many toy cars these days or trust them.
so i poped into a nortmal shop called woolworths, and went to the toy cars, and compared mine to whats available, in the 99p box toy cars on blisters their were hotweels and matchbox cars (the small scale for those companies) as well as chad valley (cheepy stuff) and there was a hummvee in each range
perfect for comparison, and they all measured up through the packets as the same near as the eye can tell the same size !!!! only one with a scale underneath was the matchbox and it stated 1:64 scale brill.i always thought matcbox where 1:72/20mm but their not infact their 25mm it seems, but then i remeber the old dark future figs !! would that be in scale, the answer NO the cars were always over sized for them for dramatical EE neffect.
the scale is perfect for street builders, but i would like confermation that what i have described isnt to far of from the truth on size.
if so my streets will be full of burnt cars.
also once this is confermed i hope it may help a few plan their streets, il try get some pics later.
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