Does anybody know

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Does anybody know what scale the Matchbox products are? I just bought my grandson a set of them and thought that the price was really nice compared to the HO scale ones available for ho scale railroads.

Choo Choo

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Matchbox vehicles are not to a specific scale. They are sized to fit into the “matchbox” or blister. Most of the cars are close to 1/64 or S scale. For HO, they are way too big.

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Same goes for Hotwheels cars, they are 1/64 scale but they do have some HO scale ones if you look hard enough.

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Matchbox… uh yup now I get it. [:D] Some days I’m slower than others and that’s going some!

Oh well, it really was too good to be true.

Thanks for the info Madog.

Choo Choo

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Matchbox… uh yup now I get it. [:D] Some days I’m slower than others and that’s going some!

Oh well, it really was too good to be true.

Thanks for the info Madog.

Choo Choo

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Not all of the Matchbox vehicles are too large for HO. Most of the cars are too big but some of the larger trucks (made to fit the same matchbox or package blister) are much closer to HO scale.

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There was also at least one 1960’s model of an MG TD that was close to the right size. I thought I had one but it is amongst the missing.

Dave

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Actually, most matchbox cars over their long history have been all different scales because the models were sized to make the wheel base the same so that one of just a few different machine spacings could install the wheels/axles.

Some older ones, from the 60’s, 50’s were pretty close to HO, most newer ones are closer to S.

Sheldon

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Some of the old Matchbox cars made by Lesney in the 1960s and early 1970s look close to HO scale. I remember having a few of those when I was a kid.

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Correction!!

The Matchbox model was a Singer, not an MG.

I just found one listed on eBay for $200 with the box, mint condition of course. Now I really have to find out where I put that car![banghead]

Dave

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[:-^]

Here is an area that is ripe for forced perspective.

The smaller Matchbox ones go towards the front of the layout and the actual HO ones go towards the rear.

Works for me. [;)]

Johnboy out…

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I know they are a little big, but I am no a rivet counter. Besides whats the chances of me today seeing a 1970 GTO next to a F-7 to see how far off they really are.

Cuda Ken

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Forced perspective… what a cool idea!!! May have to raid my grandsons collection.