Instructions and Models

There is a 1:495 Revell Oriana at Hobbylink.  Are you sure about the 1/485 scale?

That's what it said in the link .

Brasil/Argentina kits are strictly an eBay thing these days.  They come up on a fairly regular basis and seem to sell in the $40-80 range lately.  Some time back they sold in the $80-125 range.   Be patient and one will come up.

That old Revell Oriana is an old-fashioned "box scale" kit.  The scale probably depends on just how you measure the kit.

I don't have any record of Revell issuing a Canberra (other than the missile cruiser of that name).  Airfix did make a cruise ship Canberra in 1/600, but I haven't seen it in many years.

I can't quite follow Tankerbuilder's sentence:  "The model that's out right is NOT even close to the REVELL 1/485 scale model."  Could we have a little clarification, please?

What I remember best about the Brasil/Argentina kit is those nifty little scraps of blueish foil that were supposed to represent the water in the swimming pools.

I always equated those gum wrapper pools with my model of the Oriana. Maybe memory fails me.

I also think alot about the concept of "box scale".

In a way, I wonder if it wasn't "mold scale"?

After all, boxes are cheap but the machine that holds a mold isn't.