Most car models are in 1/24 or 1/25 scale, and several of them can fit nicely on a bookshelf. One of these models can make an impressive desktop display two or three of them and youвЂ™ll be looking for a bigger desk. Large scales (1/4 scale to 1/25 scale): This is, well, largely the domain of autos, motorcycles, and figures. Here are some of the things various scales offer: If you live in a house with enough space for a dedicated hobby lair, your choices are obviously different from a cozy apartment in midtown Manhattan. Your choice of scale depends on what you want to build, how you will display it, and how many and what sort of models you want in your collection. Others like to mix it up and build a variety of scales and subjects. It is exciting to see how a Douglas DC-3 is dwarfed by a Boeing 747 and reflect on aviation in the 20th century.

Some people like to stick to one scale so itвЂ™s easy to see the relative size of the subjects. Again, the scale was often 1/72 - a size that allows display and comparison of heavy bombers and diminutive fighter planes in a reasonable amount of space.Д¬onsider scale before you choose a model. Skipping past the carved artifacts of ancient history, scale model kits as we know them first appeared in England in the 1930s under the вЂњFROGвЂќ brand (for вЂњflies right off the ground.вЂќ) As it happened, these rubber band-powered aircraft models were manufactured in 1/72 scale (more on that in a moment).ДЄ few years later, scale modeling took a serious turn as FROG and many others built aircraft recognition models for the war effort. Like any fraction with 1 for a numerator, the greater the denominator the smaller the object. In other words, in 1/24 scale you would need 24 Chevy models parked bumper to bumper to equal the length of one Chevrolet. The model scale is most often expressed as a simple fraction: 1/24 scale means the model is 1/24 the size of the full-size subject. A scale model is a three-dimensional representation of a physical object.

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