Anymore toy cars are all over the map.
I have "1:64" cars that are probably closer to 1:43...
Do people complain or do you shrug your shoulders and buy them anyway...
Scott

I try to stay as close to 64 as possible, key word TRY.

I try to stay as close as possible. I give a little more leeway with 1/64 than 1/24.

I don't care about diecast being true to scale. If they're bigger it means more detail and better value for my $$$... Jae

I like my toys to be on the small side, like the late 50s-early 60s Matchbox. 1:72 and 1:87 are too small, while many Jada are too large. I would say that the Johnny Lightning '58 Impala is about the size I like for a real car that size.

I buy within a range of your average HW or JL to Jada BTM.

I would love all of the cars to be precise 1/64 scale if they're advertised as such. I expect a Nash Metro to be smaller than a Tucker. I expect a Chevy Impala to dwarf a Nova. That's why I like what I've seen from Greenlight so far- these new castings appear to be in scale with one another. :thumbsup:

For people who leave their cars in the packaging, I suppose scale means nothing. But if you display (or even play with) your cars, a giant Volkswagen Beetle next to a dwarf Cadillac Fleetwood just doesn't look right.

I like the fact that Maisto uses model size rather then scale on there smaller range of diecast models. They use the term 3" range for the smaller sized cars in the "1/64th" scale range. I know there was a good talk about the use of scale a while ago that would explain a lot of what is going in the diecast world. It is nice see that some companies put the scale on the base plate of the smaller model cars.

stevbike

Thats why I like 1/18 scale so well, most manufacturers keep the castings in scale when compared with each other.

Scale in "1/64" has been tossed out the window. I got a "1 Badd Ride" Daytona Concept the other day that comes closer to 1/43 than 1/64. I usually stay away from the big 1/64's unless, like the Concept, I just looks too good to leave alone. I suppose that's actually the only one of these I have when I think about it. I like 1/43 scale. They seem to stay true to scale, don't usually cost as much as 1/18, and don't take near the space. You'll find if you are an avid enough collector; space will always end up as an issue.

I try to avoid the stuff like g ridez or whatever HW is doing. But I don't mind 1/55-1/72. For some odd reason, 1/87 gets a little too expensive for my cheap tastes.

Sometimes I've found the scale issues work to my advantage. I collect & build in 1/24 scale, which I prefer for my Batmobiles; two recent 1/18 diecasts actually work as well or better in 1/24 than they do in 1/18 (The Corgi 2000 Batmobile measures as a near-prefect 1/24, and the Hot Wheels Tumbler works out to around 1/21).

here's one of the stupid-ist examples... and it goes all the way back to 1997 when HW started putting out (actually again..) the motorcycles in thier line...

all in the main line of Hot Wheels, but put together on a shelf any of their regular, say, muscle cars, then next to that is the behemoth Scorchin Scooter, next to that is the Goodyear Blimp (Why call it a Hot Wheels when it has no wheels?) :jest:

I guess the different sizes could be used in diorama photos to exaggerate the size and distance if the camera angle is chosen carefully. Put the larger ones in the foreground and the smaller ones towards the background.