Scale Toy
The History of Scales in Plastic Kits
A Scale Model is a replica or copy of an object that is either larger or smaller than the original. Commonly the scale model is a smaller version of the original and is produced to provide a guide for making a full size version or as a hobby or toy.
Model makers often make models for the following professions;
For architects who require a smaller version to build from.
For engineers to evaluate design performance at an early stage
For salesman to provide scaled down versions of an item for demonstration
Film makers to recreate elaborate sets
Toy makers and hobbyists make a wide variety of models including die-cast models, injection moulded, model railroads, fantasy creatures and remote control vehicles etc for their own enjoyment.
Scales and Size
Hobbyists' scale models are from those created by the companies which made the full-sized products. Originally, a "scale" was a physical measuring instrument. First among scales are the rulers that are triangular in cross-section and called architect's scales or engineer's scales. The terminology used was of this manner: "scale size to full size", or the reverse. An architect's scale was used to make the first affordable models: doll houses and their furniture. Its popular scales for these miniatures were "one inch to the foot" and "one-half inch to the foot"; there is also "three-quarters inch to the foot".
The proportion of the model to the prototype was originally called "size", as in "full-sized" or "half-sized", as used on a blueprint for making something that would fit on a workbench.
Phrases used are those of "larger" and "smaller" scales. The scale of 1/8"-to-the-foot is a larger scale than 1/16"-to-the-foot, even though the denominator is smaller. So a larger model is made to a larger scale. You can remember this in that a full-size, or full-scale, model is larger than a half-size model.
The History of Plastic Model kits
For aircraft recognition in the Second World War, the RAF selected models to the scale of "one-sixth inch to the foot" (which was two British lines, a legal division of length which didn't make it to America, besides being a standard shipyard scale). Although some consumer models were sold pre-war in Britain to this scale, the airmens' models were pressed out of ground-up old rubber tires. This is of course the still-popular 1:72 scale. It wasn't predestined to succeed; there were competitors.
The US Navy, in contrast, had metal models made to the proportion 1:432, which is "nine-feet-to-the-quarter-inch". At this scale, a model six feet is about half a statute mile; and seven feet about half a nautical mile.
About the Author
Chris Tyrrell writes for ABC Modelsport who stock a wide variety of plastic kits and radio controlled toys. Visit the website for more details.
Scale Toy
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 TRUE SCALE Toy Train Dealer Counter Display MINT C9 OB US $150.00
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 MEECO TOY O SCALE WORK TROLLEY MODEL KIT MINT IN BOX no reserve US $141.00
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 LIONEL TOYS R US O SCALE NEW US $100.00
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 Marx Toys O Scale New York Central Lines Tin Wrecker Crane Orange Black US $99.74
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 MARX TIN LITHO O SCALE NYC 20102 CABOOSE CAR MODEL TRAIN TOY HOBBY US $69.99
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 Vintage MARX Tin O Scale Toy Train Platform Trunk US $69.99
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 AHM N scale ELECTRIC TOY STEAM ENGINE 492 TRAIN SET IN BOX RIO GRANDE RAILROAD US $69.99
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 VINTAGE 1940s1950s Lionel Toy Train Lionel Lines Coal Tender Car O Scale US $68.95
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 Lionel 19956 Las Vegas 777 New York 1998 TOY FAIR BOXCAR O Scale NIB Box Car US $64.97
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 RARE MaRx O scale pre war old tin litho toy train set joy line eagle eye 356 US $79.00
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 RARE Ives O scale pre war repro old tin 1125 toy train set engine tender look US $75.00
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 K Line 1999 NY Toy Fair O Scale Classic Box Car New In Box US $49.99
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 LIONEL LINES CABOOSE 6017 SECTION OF TRACK O SCALE VINTAGE MODEL TOY TRAIN US $44.99
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 3 Marx Crossing Gates 464 Auto Block Signal IOB O Scale Toy Model Train Vintage US $44.99
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 Marx Toys O Scale New York Central System NYC Grey Crane Car US $41.99
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 VINTAGE LIONEL PENNSYLVANIA 536417 MADE IN THE USA O SCALE TOY TRAIN 1953 US $40.00
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 O SCALE TRAIN IVES TOYS TRACTOR TRAILER 0 SCALE NEW IN BOX US $39.75
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 VINTAGE Lionel Toy Train Red Caboose O Scale Model Railroad 1950s 6017 US $36.95
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 Lionel Bucyrue Erie Crane Car 6560 O Scale Toy Model Train Vintage US $35.99
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 O Scale K Line K675 7401 TF Vat Car Toy fair 2000 US $35.00
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If a toy monster truck is 1-64 scale, how big is it?
Hot Wheels size? Bigger?
For those of you who don't realize this, I don't think many average moms, such as myself, have any idea how long a monster truck is. Big, that's all I know.
It will be about the size of a matchbox or hotwheels car.