1:131 scale stuff - does anything exist?

[kitnut617]

Not a floatie thing but it is 1/131 scale:  http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=8935&scale=1/131

Talking about scales (as in rulers)  did you know that on the engineers scale, 1 to 60 is the same as 1/72 scale. Not convinced, well 1 to 60 is 1" = 6.0 feet.  I use it all the time when kit bashing.

In my set of seven volumns of 'Aircraft of the Fighting Powers', all the drawings are in 1/72 or 1/144.  There are lots of adverts showing wooden non-flying models you could buy plans for all in 1/72 scale.  These books were my Dad's which he got during and just after WW.II.

Robert

[puddingwrestler]

Okay thanks guys, I'll porbably end up bashing/trashing/scratching everything on it. I'm not looking to add choppers, but I was thinking about missile launchers...

Also trying to come up with a name, but this whole thing will be on hold until after the one week GB anyway.
Or atleast until I've finsihed my first 1 Wk GB entry (on holidays and i build FAST)

[jcf]

s far as 'box-scale' is concerned I've never personally been convinced of the hoary old tale of models being produced to fit standardized boxes, especially seeing as cardboard is orders of magnitude cheaper than injection mould tooling. The more likely explanation is that the models were designed to fit the available injection moulding machines.

Actually they were produced to fit into a standard size box.  Al Trendle (one of the original employees of the original Revell, Inc. of Venice, California) told me that.  He said they decided that it was cheaper to buy hundreds of thousands of kit boxes and shipping boxes in a standard size, and that nobody really cared what scale anything was, since the majority of their market back then was kids who wouldn't know the difference anyway. 

If you consider not just the kit box, but the shipping cartons that the kit boxes had to fit neatly into, it makes sense.  Injection molding machines, even in the early 1950s, were capable of making parts of just about any size required.

J

That may be true of Revell at one point, but does it really apply to all the producers of 'box scale' kits?

[John Howling Mouse]

s far as 'box-scale' is concerned I've never personally been convinced of the hoary old tale of models being produced to fit standardized boxes, especially seeing as cardboard is orders of magnitude cheaper than injection mould tooling. The more likely explanation is that the models were designed to fit the available injection moulding machines.

Actually they were produced to fit into a standard size box.  Al Trendle (one of the original employees of the original Revell, Inc. of Venice, California) told me that.  He said they decided that it was cheaper to buy hundreds of thousands of kit boxes and shipping boxes in a standard size, and that nobody really cared what scale anything was, since the majority of their market back then was kids who wouldn't know the difference anyway. 

If you consider not just the kit box, but the shipping cartons that the kit boxes had to fit neatly into, it makes sense.  Injection molding machines, even in the early 1950s, were capable of making parts of just about any size required.

J

That may be true of Revell at one point, but does it really apply to all the producers of 'box scale' kits?

If you think "outta the box" (sorry, couldn't resist), neither issue of standard box sizes nor injection moulding machine limitations should reasonably have dictated the rather odd assortment of scales as: 1) any one model company (Revell or otherwise) was pumping out x number of kits in all sorts of different box sizes anyway and 2) it should not have impacted chosen "scale" except for those subjects at selected scales which were right at the extreme of any one model company's injection molding machine's capabilities.  There are all sorts of odd-ball scales well below the apparent limits of any one company's largest sprue sizes at any given time but they still don't make any rational sense.

I think the various companies back then simply pumped out kits in whatever final size their various marketing divisions thought would sell the best.