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Saturday February 11th 2012

Scale relativity

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Scale

Standards

Related Scales

Related train gauge

Approx. length of a car

Some explanations

inch

cm

1:1

Full-sized reference vehicle

1:12

18

45

race & exotic cars

1:18

11-12

25-30

cars

1:24

1:25

G “standard gauge”

9

18-22

cars, trains …

1:32

1:31, 1:35

L

6.75

14-17

cars, trains …

1:43

1:45, 1:48, 1:50, 1:53, 1:55

O

4-5

10-12

cars, trains, planes …

1:64

1:60

S

3

7-8

cars, trains …

1:76

1:72

OO “double O”

2.8

6-7

cars, trains …

1:87

HO “half O”

2.5

5,5-6

cars, trains …

1:144

Cars, trucks and also aircraft such as airliners and bombers

1:160

1:148

N

abbreviation for “nine millimeters”, which is the distance between the inside edges of the rails. N models are smaller by nearly a half than they are in HO scale.

1:220

Z

smallest scale train set on the market

1:250

Scales reserved for commercial and large military planes by Herpa and Schabak in order to render them 3-6 inches long

1:500

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