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Ratio
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Scale foot
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Comments |
| 1:2500 |
0.122 mm |
| A European size for naval wargaming ship models. |
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| 1:2400 |
0.127 mm |
| A size for naval wargaming ship models. |
|
| 1:1250 |
0.244 mm |
| A European size for ship models. |
|
| 1:1200 |
0.254 mm |
| A size for ship and harbor models. |
|
| 1:720 |
0.423 mm |
| This was a standard size for ship models. |
|
| 1:700 |
0.435 mm |
| This is the scale that Tamiya, Aoshima, Hasegawa and Fujimi chose to produce the largest series of waterline plastic model ships and submarines. Later Skywave joined in. |
|
| 1:600 |
0.508 mm |
| Popular for ships, especially liners and capital ships. This is the traditional scale for comparative drawings of ships, used by the Royal Navy because it's about one-tenth of a nautical mile to the foot. |
|
| 1:570 |
0.535 mm |
| This scale was used by Monogram for some ship models because it was one-half the size of the standard scale for wargaming models used by the US Army. |
|
| 1:500 |
0.610 mm |
| This is a scale used by Europeans for pre-finished airliner models. Trumpeter produces ships in this scale. |
|
| 1:432 |
0.706 mm |
| The scale used during the Second World War by the US Navy for aircraft recognition. |
|
| 1:400 |
0.762 mm |
| A European size for ship and submarine models. |
|
| 1:350 |
0.871 mm |
| A Japanese size for a ship. |
|
| 1:288 |
1.058 mm |
| A scale for aircraft and rockets. |
|
| 1:285 |
1.070 mm |
| The US Army scale for sand-table wargames. |
|
| 1:250 |
1.219 mm |
| Used by Heller for model ships. |
|
| 1:220 |
1.385 mm |
|
| 1:160 |
1.906 mm |
| American and European model trains in N scale. |
|
| 1:150 |
2.032 mm |
| Used by Heller for model ships, and proposed by the Japanese to supersede 1:144. |
|
| 1:144 |
2.117 mm |
| Popular for aircraft, spacecraft. Also, British and some Japanese N scale trains. |
|
| 1:128 |
2.381 mm |
| A few rockets and some fit-in-the-box aircraft are made to this size. |
|
| 1:108 |
2.822 mm |
| An historic size for ships, also used for rockets and spacecraft. |
|
| 1:100 |
3.048 mm |
| A Japanese scale for aircraft, spacecraft, and giant robots. |
|
| 1:96 |
3.175 mm |
| An historic scale for ships, also used for spacecraft. |
|
| 1:90 |
3.387 mm |
| A scale proposed by some European manufacturers to supersede HO scale. |
|
| 1:87 |
3.503 mm |
| Civilian and military vehicles. Same as HO scale. |
|
| 1:82 |
3.717 mm |
| An intermediate scale (H0/00) intended to apply to both H0 and 00 scale train sets. |
|
| 1:76 |
4.011 mm |
| Military vehicles. Same as 4 mm scale (OO gauge, etc.). |
|
| 1:75 |
4.064 mm |
| Used by Heller for model ships. |
|
| 1:72 |
4.233 mm |
| Aircraft, military vehicles. |
|
| 1:64 |
R4.763 mm
(3/16in.) |
| Ships, die-cast cars. Same as S gauge. Also called 3/16in. scale. |
|
| 1:48 |
6.35 mm |
| Military aircraft. This is the scale used by Americans with the 0 gauge. It is not exact. |
|
| 1:45 |
6.773 mm |
| This is the scale which MOROP has declared must go with the 0 gauge, because it ends with a five. |
|
| 1:43 |
7.088 mm |
| Still the most popular scale for die-cast cars worldwide, metric or otherwise. It originates from the scale that the British use with the O gauge. |
|
| 1:40 |
7.62 mm |
| Plastic soldier figures occur in this scale; there are a few kits to make vehicles for them. |
|
| 1:35 |
8.709 mm |
| The most popular scale for military vehicles and figures. |
|
| 1:32 |
9.525 mm |
| Military vehicles; 54 mm toy soldiers are supposed to use this scale as well. Same as Gauge 1. |
|
| 1:28 |
10.89 mm |
|
| 1:25 |
12.2 mm |
| Cars, figures. AMT (now combined with Ertl), Revell, and Jo-Han made cars in this scale. This is preferred in Europe to 1:24. Holland has whole toy villages in this scale. |
|
| 1:24 |
12.7 mm |
| Cars, figures. Monogram made cars in this scale; Tamiya still does. |
|
| 1:20 |
15.24 mm |
|
| 1:19 |
16.04 mm |
| 16mm scale live steam model railways. This is also the scale for those "four-inch" adventure movie figurines. |
|
| 1:18 |
16.93 mm |
| Cars made from kits; there are also pre-assembled toy military vehicles, fighter planes, and helicopters. |
|
| 1:16 |
19.05 mm |
| Live steam trains (ridable), Figures. |
|
| 1:12 |
25.4 mm |
| Figures, Cars, Live steam trains (ridable). |
|
| 1:8 |
38.1 mm |
| Live steam trains (ridable). |
|
| 1:6 |
50.8 mm |
| Figures, motorcycles, Rail Cannons, Armored Vehicles, Military Dioramas. |
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