Your opinions please

N'uther thread today was asking about the !QUOT!best!QUOT! F-6F. I commented that the Wing kit was a great flyer but way off in scale. They state that the kit is 1-3/8 inches equals one foot. The kit ends up with a 61 inch wing and 44 inch fuselage. For the stated !QUOT!precision!QUOT! scale kit the wing is 103% too big and the fuse is 95% of what it should be.

The plastic building folks go ballistic if a plastic kit doesn't scale out exactly to the stated mm.

So how far off from a stated scale can a scale model be and still be a scale model of the original subject?

Maj. Tom
USAFR ret etc.