What scale are my (mint) 1928 Tootsietoy fire trucks and cars.
John Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: Pieter Roos
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} FYI : My eBay Seller Comment
It is important to bear in mind that many sellers are not scale modelers. The
figures would certainly be acceptable to many Flyer and hirail people, many of
whom use all kinds of oversize toy figures and vehicles. In fact, A.C.
Gilbert's own figures were over sized, IIRC. Calling them "S Gauge" rather than
scale can be a good hint that they may not be correct for "scale" use.
Currently the S scale section of Ebay is pretty well overrun with HO Woodland
Scenics stuff, some 1/43 or larger trucks, and other items not of any use to a
fastidious modeler.
In the die cast area, almost all Matchbox and similar vehicles are listed as
1/64, although they were "box scaled" and some trucks are closer to 1/100! Some
folks simply don't understand that the scale represents a ratio, or what that
might mean. I've encounter people on various Yahoo groups asking if two objects
are different sizes in real life, should they be the same size in 1/xx scale?!
Pieter E. Roos
--- On Thu, 2/10/11, Peter Vanvliet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I just received a package of figures I won on eBay sold by
> the eBay ID
> "mwinternetauctions". I don't want to slander anyone,
> because the items
> arrived quickly and all communications were done
> professionally.
> However, that person lists a lot of items under "S" scale.
> The figures I
> received were labeled as "S Gauge" figures. However, when I
> measured
> them with my trusty ruler they came out to 8 scale feet
> tall against the
> S scale ruler, and around 5-1/2 scale feet tall when
> measured against
> the O scale ruler.
>
> I am just sending this note, because if someone else had
> this experience
> before, I would have like to have known about it and saved
> myself some
> money. I haven't decided yet whether to return them (I
> would net about
> 1/3 back of the money I have paid), or just to sell them on
> eBay again
> in the "O Gauge" section.
>
> - Peter.
>
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