Where did 1/25 scale come from?

ure mom

jk i really dont know. dont complain stop bein a baby

As I understand it, before they produced kits, AMT made promotional models of cars for Ford, GMC etc. These would be supplied to dealerships as giveaways (worth a fortune now). For whatever reason they were usually in 1/25th scale. Then some bright spark said, hey, why don't we sell them in pieces?. I think, thats how Revell started out too.
As for why 1/25th, maybe it was a convenient size, look at how carkit boxes have always been around about the same size, as opposed to aircraft kit boxes, and they were usually made in a scale to fit the box in the early days, hence the phrase, 'boxscale'.
Pete

Engineering models that the car companies build when designing new models are done at 1/10 scale. A 1/25 scale kit is a 2.5 reduction of the original design model.

Lee Williams

QUOTE: Originally posted by jlwilliams Engineering models that the car companies build when designing new models are done at 1/10 scale. A 1/25 scale kit is a 2.5 reduction of the original design model. Lee Williams

That and engineers used to make drawings with decimal rulers - marked off with 0.02 tick marks. If you use the decimal ruler for your scale measurements, each tick mark works out to 0.5 scale inches. There is an easier trick to use - if you get a metric ruler, each millimeter tick mark is 1 scale inch (not quite exact - but really, really close).

Don

very interesting!!!!


Thanks for the info!!!!!