Arizona, United States
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Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 09:41 AM UTC
Hi all
What do you all use to find the apporiate size for the scale of your of your figures. For example, i am scratchbuilding a building, and I am working with 1/48 scale. How would i find the right dimensions for the building for 1/48 scale?
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Myanmar
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Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 09:48 AM UTC
This is a neet calculator on line. And easy to use too.
http://www.printmini.com/calc.shtml 
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Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 11:23 AM UTC
1/48 is a very simple scale to use.
One inch = four scale feet.
One quarter inch = one scale foot
one-eigth = six scale inches.
et cetera
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Posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 07:50 PM UTC
fred you got in before me - I work a lot in 1/48 and english 'O' 1/43 (7mm =1 ft)
Great scale for lots of details
Ian
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Arizona, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 03:34 AM UTC
Thanks for all the comments guys! I pretty much stick with 1/48 scale so the conversions that JPTRR gave helps alot!
Thanks mates!
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