Anything in 1/24th or 1/20 you want in 1/25th scale?

[robertburns]

Exactly; that's why I'm going with Monogram wheels/tires/etc. on my Hubley '60 and '61 Ford wagons - those really need 1/24 parts to look good. The custom wheelcovers in their old '55 Chevy kit are nearly-perfect copies of the '61 Ford ones, and the T-bird wire wheels in the original-issue '40 Ford pickup are like fine jewelry (somebody should recast these!).

good examples. 

Someone also said the 1/24 Superbee wheels are great for Cop Cars if they were in 1/25

[robertburns]

was there a lot of difference between Johan's 69 and MPC's 70?

[Mark]

was there a lot of difference between Johan's 69 and MPC's 70?

Besides the scale difference (1/20 vs. 1/24), the MPC AMX kits had much better chassis detail, a more correct engine, and an interior bucket with separate seats.

[Jordan White]

I know Lindberg made a 1/20 1st Gen Explorer that would be nice to see in 1/25 scale.

[Xingu]

How about a '56 Chevy Belair hardtop in 1/25th.

 

 

Steve

 

Didn't Revell make this already?

[Psychographic]

Other than curiosity, is there a reason for asking this?

[StevenGuthmiller]

Didn't Revell make this already?

Revell did the '56 Delray sedan & the Nomad.

Monogram did the hardtop in 1/24th scale way back, but it's a pretty inaccurate body & nobody has done it in 1/25th scale.

The really old Revell kit with the opening doors was also a 2 door post car.

 

Steve

[robertburns]

Other than curiosity, is there a reason for asking this?

I'm writing an article (plus a book about molding and casting) about shrinking parts and wanted to use a subject people would get excited about

 

[Len Woodruff]

I'm writing an article (plus a book about molding and casting) about shrinking parts and wanted to use a subject people would get excited about

 

What time frame for the article and the book? I would be interested in both.

[om617]

This thing looks really cool.

[Chuck Most]

Anything in 1:24 can stay 1:24 as far as I'm concerned. I would like to see the early '90's Lindberg 1:20 scale light trucks (specifically the Nissan and previously mentioned Explorer Sport) done in 1:25, though. The Econoline van has been mentioned numerous times (Motor City Resin Casters makes one in 1:25, ya know?) but I'll mention it again because it's another I'd like.

[Chuck Most]

Oh... I forgot, this in 1:24 please. 

[Cpt Tuttle]

I think anything that was originally 1/20 would be better as 1/25. I have nothing against 1/20 scale kits even though they might look a bit goofy on display cabinet with a big bunch of those regular 1/25 models, but the problem is that there are so few 1/20 kits out there that most people don't have much spare parts for them. That said, you'd have to build them box stock, or then scratchbuild all of the details.

And then the legendary 1/24 VS 1/25. I have never seen a difference between those two scales. In fact I think that the difference is so small that it doesn't matter, bigger problem is that sometimes kit parts can be different size compared to each other, even if both kits were the same scale. Some kits, for example AMT "Twister Vega" have way too small engines compared to the size of the engine bay. I mix up 1/24 and 1/25 parts all the time with no problems, so I don't care which scale it says on the box top. That's good, because there are some very good kits released in both scales.

I can really agree on everything here, I guess that the flat nosed Econoline van and the Entex 4 door VW Rabbit and BMW 2002 kits is the one I wish the most that they would have been 1:24 or 1:25 instead.

Bashing the 1:24 scale is just silly in my eyes, if we're talking about following some kind of industry standard, they should stop issuing new 1:25 kits instead. Japanese and european manufacturers, as well as Monogram, has mostly been making 1:24 kits, 1:25 is just some american thing, and isn't Moebius and US Revell the only american companies still issuing new kits today?

And sadly kits are seldom accurate enough that the scale difference does matter at all - take the Lindberg "tall T" that is said to be 1:24 and compare it to a 1:25 AMT model T, and the AMT is HUGE!

Of course sometimes it is the other way around, old Monogram wheels are as an example often on the big side when you use them on 1:25 cars and tend to look cartoony.....