| You have to basically think of it in reverse, the bigger the number after the 1, the "smaller" the scale and hence the smaller a figure would be at that scale. A 1/6th scale motorcycle would have a figure of 300 mm or 12" tall whereas a 1/600th scale Airfix warship would have a figure of about 3mm or 1/8th" tall.
Scales are usually designed to produce a model that is of a manageable size with an acceptable degree of detail but there are always those extreems that make you wonder such as the guy in the United states that has build a model of the Graf Spee in something like 1/10th scale at about 40 ft long!
In my teenage years the 1/24th Airfix fighters such as the Spitfire, Me109, Mustang etc were all quite breathtaking to see when all we had seen up until then was 1/72nd stuff.
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