Model Forum / General / Models / October 2005

Most of the manufacturers outside the US use 1/24th.  I suppose Monogram
went with 1/24th to attract a bigger audience overseas.  For me it
always meant that I'd just as soon skip their kits.  They just don't
look right sitting with 1/25th cars, especially if they're at all
similar.
Most of my Monogram purchases were the antique cars because a Duesenberg
will look gigantic next to a Model T anyway.  Thus the disparity in
scales was not so evident.  Where I tripped up was going for their
1/24th Thunderbirds.  The '58 doesn't look too good next to AMT's '60.
Nor does their '56 next to AMT's '57.  To make things worse the only
'70s Thunderbird out there is Arii/Otaki's 1/24th '72.  It sure looks
big next to AMT's '71.
I completely skipped all the Mopar muscle and Mustangs they brought out
over the years.  It says something that several years ago they threw in
the towel and put out kits in 1/25th.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I don't know this answer but I find a thing funny.

When measuring in feet and inches, scales of multiples of 6 (1:24, 1:48
etc.) have more sense: in 1:24, 2 feet of the real thing equal to 2
inches of the scale model.
When measuring in metres and centimetres, scales of multiples of 5
(1:25, 1:50, 1:200 etc) are a wiser choice. 1 meter in 1:25 scale equals
to 4 cms, plain and easy.

While in N.A. they use imperial measuring, car models are made in 1:25
scale, in the rest of the world where metric measuring is mostly used,
1:24 is the common scale.

Ciao!
R.