Toy Farmer's What is Scale? Homepage

Our What is Scale homepage explains what actually is scale and how it benefits your child's activity, with extending there play for years to come. Mismatched scale farm toys often restricts the child's fun with limited playability as wrong scale toys may not work with other scale size toys. When you shop for farm toys, please always shop by scale (the size of the toy). Toy Manufacturers usually produce their toys in the same scale, so its always a good idea shopping with the same Manufacturer such as Britains, Siku, Bruder and Breyer... All very good toy makers. It's also worth knowing most manufacturers products will only work with there own products, such as attaching trailers to tractors. When shopping for Farm Toys, scale 1:87 is very popular amongst child, but scale 1:32 is even more popular as this product range offers a wider range of accessories. Please learn more about toy scale below, but please note these are only approximate sizes and are not completely accurate.

Scale 1:16: approximately: 18 cm: Scale 1/16 is the largest of scale of Farm Toys. With this scale children can enjoy complete interactivity with the toy. Due to its size, the toy tractor range comes with steering wheels and the child can turn the wheels left and right.

Scale 1:32: approximately: 9.5 cm: Scale 1/32 is the most popular scale toy you will find in shops today. Toy makers consider scale 1:32 to be the most interesting scale among children and have therefore produced a wide range of Farm Toys suited to scale 1:32 toys.

Scale 1:46: approximately: 7.5 cm: Scale 1/46 isn't widely available these days, although farm toys can be purchased in this scale. This scale is half the size of 1:16 scale, but is nearly the equal size to its counterparts scale 1:32. Scale 1:32 and 1:46 are well suited together with farm accessories.

Scale 1:64: approximately: 7 cm: Again this is a very popular scale range of farm toys. This scale at approximately 7 centimetres (cm) and works very well with scale 1:87 as both scale ranges are very similar in size.

Scale 1:87: approximately: 6 cm: Last but not least, scale 1:87. By far the most popular of size farm toys. Averaging just 6cm in length, scale 1/87 is a very small yet very affordable farm toy range. These tiny toys are highly detailed but take up no storage space whatsoever and come widely available in shops and on the internet.