Recently I completed the Model Factory Hiro 1/24 kit of the Ferrari 330 P4, and the MPC 1/25 kit of the Ford GT40 Mark IV. The objective was to reproduce the Ford vs Ferrari movie; the fact I am three months late for the Ottawa contest where this was a theme is besides the point.
Once complete, I sat them side by side. The Ford is noticeably smaller than the Ferrari, which is not the case in real life; according to my good friend Mr Google, the Ford is 4343 millimetres long at 1:1 while the Ferrari is 4185 mm. (Wheelbases are essentially identical at 2400 and 2413 mm).
Getting out my trusty ruler and HP 15C RPN calculator, I came up with the following:
MFH kit: 179 mm X 24 = 4296 mm (111 mm too long, close to 5 mm at scale)
MPC kit: 175 mm X 25 = 4375, 32 mm off and on the edge of my measurement error, so we'll call it "accurate".
I wonder how many other MFH kits are off by these sorts of margins.
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