DRAT!

[bigphoto]

Well I just picked up the new Revell 48' coupe and thought a cut at the trunk and cowl and badda boom badda bing instant non chop by using my old IMC kit. However one slight problem must be 1/25 45 yrs ago was smaller than 1/25 today!! So I guess I will build a chopped Revell kit and a non-chopped IMC

Edited October 16, 2011 by bigphoto

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

No, 1/25th is still the same as it was 45 yrs ago, but Revell isn't. Revell models are not 1/25th scale even if they say so on the box. I'd say they're closer to, if not the same as 1/24th. Anything issued after their merge with Monogram is way off scale and for that reason I stopped buying them. That's one of the reasons why I never bought Monogram. I guess when they merged they brought Monograms engineers over to Revell and the dummies aren't smart enough to do the math and actually make things 1/25 scale. Back in the hay day of modeling just about all model companies used 1/25th scale except for Monogram. Back then the scale wasn't their only problem. They turned out some very poorly tooled and ho hum models. The only Revell models I would even consider buying are the ones I know were produced before Revell/Monogram.

[Chuck Most]

Then again, that IMC kit is so wonked out, who's to say that one isn't really 1:25. I often wonder what the guys who engineered that kit were smoking during the R&D sessions.

[Bob Turner]

While it is entirely possible that the new Revell 48 Ford kit is larger than 1/25 scale, it is equally as possible that the old IMC kit is smaller than 1/25 scale. Back then many so called 1/25 scale kits were sometimes larger or smaller than the stated scale. The JoHan 1/25 scale variants made to fit a standard sized box with some being scaled larger than 1/25 & some being scalled smaller springs to mind of course, (having recently been discussed in a thread here on JoHan), but so does the old AMT 55 Nomad kit which from all I've heard over the years is actually a good bit smaller than 1/25 scale.

Just because the manufacturers claimed back during the hobby's "Golden Age" that their 1/25 scale models did scale out to 1/25 is no guarantee that it's always factual. Given the designs & tolerances used today I'd be more likely to trust today's scales than those of yesterday.

[bigphoto]

Then again, that IMC kit is so wonked out, who's to say that one isn't really 1:25. I often wonder what the guys who engineered that kit were smoking during the R&D sessions.

It was the 60's!!

[Dr. Cranky]

Measure twice, cut once . . . if that's any consolation.

[59 Impala]

Yeah, and I cut it twice and it's still to short. :lol: Dan