1/24 car model with 1/35 figures

Gotcha. Should have read the first post better.

Yes, but the more important part of the diorama is the figure I've already heavily converted from Verlinden, Dragon, Hornet, and Tamiya parts; plus a fair amount of sculpting and scratchbuilding. And it's already painted. It will be less work to trick out the 1/32 car than to completely re-do the figure in a larger scale. But I will keep that in mind for the future- though, I suspect there are substatntially less military figures and parts in 1/24 scale than 1/35.

Fujimi sells 1/24 scale figures.

As does Jimmy Flintstone, Chimneyville and Tamiya.

Good luck!

Yeah- I figured as much.

However, I did a little research and one of the things I discovered was that the car in question (a 1949 Ford Tudor) had somewhat smaller windows (which was the main thing that made the car look too small) and taller doors compared to modern vehicles. A photo of the car with a driver looked pretty similar to what I saw when I put a 1/35 torso inside the car body. It seems my lack of kowledge about old cars caused me some confusion.

 While at the store, I picked up a 1/35 Italeri VW to kitbash for parts, as the Lindberg kit is pretty spare in the interior details department. Since the vehicle is going to be a "fantasy" vehicle of sorts, it didn't matter too much where I got the parts from, so long as they were in scale. Comparing the VW body to the Tudor body (it was about as wide, but much shorter) eliminated any doubt as to whether or not the Lindberg kit was correct.

My biggest problem now is going to be bulking out the inside of the body- I want to model one of the doors open (or possibly missing) but the interior only consists of the floor and seats, so the doors and side panels have no thickness other than the ~.040 thickness of the outer body shell. Which isn't terribly hard, just annoying and time-consuming.

There would be far too great a disparity between a 1/24th scale car and 1/35th scale figures. To put it into perpective, an "average" 1/24th scale 4-pot like a Toyota Corolla would be about the same size (or only just slightly smaller) as a 1/35th scale WW2 medium tank.

You could do a "forced perspective" dio (meant to be viewed from a specific position/direction) with the car in the foreground and the figures in the background to create an illusion of distance, but if they are intended to interact with the car in some way, then they would be way too small.

There are some Japanese kits which are 1/32 scale which might be useful to you, but they may be difficult to come by. Look here for some examples: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/331/0/1

PS: In 1/32 scale, a Nissan Skyline R32 is approximately 5.25 inches in length. In 1/24 it would be approx 7 inches