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Two Measures of Scale. The size of a miniature, relative to what it is a replica of, is known as the scale of the figure. For no particularly good reason, two different systems are used to rate scale. Some scales are given as a ratio, variously written as either a ratio (i.e., 1:300 or 1.300) or a fraction (i.e., 1/300).
The scale of a model is it's size relative to the size of the real version. So compared to a 1:24 scale model, the real version is 24 times larger in size or 1:1 in scale. Example; In the pictures below... The model on top is 1:18 Scale, which means it is one eighteenth the size of the real thing.