ValiantWagon Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 It seems as if the target builders opted for 1/35 as their predominant scale whereas LSPers opted for 1/32. Does anyone know whether there is an historical reason for this dislocation - why didnt both opt for the same scale? Or is it something that just evolved and there is no reason for the slight difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LSP_Jay L Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 At one time it was the same. Monogram and Airfix made 32nd scale armour as well as a few others then came Tamiya with 35th scale tanks and changed the whole thing. Cheers mate, Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 I remember Monogram's range of armor kits from the early '60s, Patton tank, half-track, jeep w/cannon, etc, were 1/35 scale. M M ...it goes back a long way...don't know the reason for the disparity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus H Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 i have heared that this is a kind of "inch & cm" problem. dont ask me for an explaination. its kind of silly and i think it will never change again. cheers klaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
05OP Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 IIRC it was a budget concern for Tamiya efforts at motorizing armor subjects.Shrink the scale to fit economical electric motors of the time. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Hannover - Germany Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Now Tamiya changes the thing into 48th scale.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 You'll need to get some armour-heads to confirm this, but my understanding is that the 1/35th scale AFV relates directly to the original (and traditional) scale of soldier figures (54mm figures spring to mind, which is pretty close to 1/32). The vehicles were scaled to match the figure size. Any takers?... Cheers Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Matt Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 i have heared that this is a kind of "inch & cm" problem. dont ask me for an explaination. its kind of silly and i think it will never change again. Cough HUBBLE cough Well said Klaus. Good question though Val...not dumb at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Brooks Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 We were told 1/35th was the best size for fitting electric motors, so Tamiya went with that; 1/32nd scale is gauge 1, in railway modelling. Edgar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 According to Mr. Tamiya in his book, 1/35th was picked so that a motor would best fit in their armor line. I do not know if I totally believe that was the true reason. For one, their first tank kit was a Panther. IF the kit needed to be 1/35th to fit a motor, what about 90% of all the other tanks that are smaller than a Panther? Also, 1/35th is so close to 1/32nd why not add the extra little bit and match the other 1/32nd stuff out there? Battery would obviously fit in a 1/32nd tank if it fit in a 1/35th. Tamiya got their start making wood ship kits for the Japanese crowd that were box scale. It was only later they started to keep to a scale with ships. I am wondering if that first armor kit was sort of a box scale issue also and they stuck with it. Or an error in calculations with their early molds and they refuse to face up to it. Whatever, it sure is a pain for that 1% off. Wish they would have stuck with 1/32nd. BTW: 1/32 is really based on an architectural scale: 3/8" = 1'- 0", just as 1/48th is 1/4" = 1'- 0" . Not sure where they came up with 1/72nd however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 1/72nd scale is the next natural mathematical regression. I guess.... I meant as to Architectural scales. 1/72 would 1/6" = 1'-0" . There is no such scale, at least not a standard one. Closest I guess would be 3/16" = 1'-0" which would be 1/64 scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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