The Little World

That the makers of 1:64 scale cars and trucks don’t make their construction equipment in the same scale.

That the cars they do make are nearly always brightly coloured race cars and rods. So useful for normal dioramas.

That the die cast factories employ pantograph design machinery to produce the same thing in three scales. You can get three sizes of something that you don’t want.

That the makers of modern scale trains do not match themselves with the makers of modern road cars, either in prototype or scale. You can have one from Column A and one from Column B but not at the same time.

You can build thongs from North American, Japan, Britain, or the eastern states. Reality stops at Eucla, and if you want to model it, get out a piece of wood and jackknife.

You can build Lego, but to their command, and at EEC prices.

You can build a YAMATO, BISMARK, or MISSOURI in every scale from 1:3000 to 1:72. And then build it again and again and again.