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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen
When I was a kid, Airfix (along with other model kit manufacturers) produced kits of the big airliners of the day in 1:144 scale. In other words, one inch of plastic model for every 12 feet of the real plane; this was of course to cut down on the size of the model, and was one half of the more usual scale of 1:72 (one inch to six feet).
In more recent times, however, kit makers have been far less shy about producing models of big aircraft in 1:72 scale (beginning, I suppose, with the Heller kit of the Being 707, a magnificent thing of about two feet in length). So I was just pondering the size of such a model of the An-225: it would be over 45 inches long!
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Proper big for a model. Also the breed of models where the owner drives a Lambo to the rc club, with the crew in a trailer truck behind him
