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CFECO · 01-16-2014, 01:24 PM

I was getting the "1/6 scale New Beetle" model ready to make a mold yesterday, when I got thinking..."Usually Dangerous"... that if this car was 1/6 the size of the real car, it should be a LOT bigger, unless the real car is only about 5' long! Compared to the 1/24 scale model, the big car is about 1.58 times larger...so I figure it is about 1/15.1 scale. Much smaller than 1/6, but is really a good size to work with, and saves a lot of materials for molding and casting. Ebay seller "Miss-stated" the size...Oh well "first time for everything....
Building the mold box today.

01-16-2014, 01:24 PM	#115 (permalink)
CFECO CFECO Join Date: May 2008 Location: Vail, AZ. Posts: 552 X-Car - '11 Homemade 2+2 Velbly1 - '17 Toyota Camery XSE 90 day: 29 mpg (US) Velbly2 - '13 Toyota Tundra 90 day: 18.03 mpg (US) Thanks: 174 Thanked 60 Times in 56 Posts	New Styles Beetle model scale "Change"... I was getting the "1/6 scale New Beetle" model ready to make a mold yesterday, when I got thinking..."Usually Dangerous"... that if this car was 1/6 the size of the real car, it should be a LOT bigger, unless the real car is only about 5' long! Compared to the 1/24 scale model, the big car is about 1.58 times larger...so I figure it is about 1/15.1 scale. Much smaller than 1/6, but is really a good size to work with, and saves a lot of materials for molding and casting. Ebay seller "Miss-stated" the size...Oh well "first time for everything.... Building the mold box today.