Hi!

I'm about to make my first scratchbuildt model. I got a lot of pictures of the vehicle I'm modeling, but, how do I (in a easy way) find the size of things in the different pictures. If all the picures was in the same scale I could only measure and convert, but when all the pictures is in a different scale (size) how sould I do it?

I know some reference measurements like the length of the vehicle, the height of the wheel and so on.

If someone know a good way to find the scale size of things, please share them!

Go to page 2 of this forum (scratchbuilders) and go to the post titled "Excel Tool for scale measurements from photos".

Hopefully that will help you out.

HARV

Thanks, that shuld be a nice tool if I could use excel spreadsheets. I don't use ms office or other ms products if I can help it (I'm a bit strange about that...). I tried it in openoffice but it's not working quite right.

I think I have to sit down and program me a new tool...

Nor do I. It works OK in open office for me. did you get the one from jaypee.org.uk?
http://jaypee.org.uk/ModelScalefromPhotos_v1.0.xls
or google docs
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pTsmT0ICovja1M2IWABmVEA&hl=en

What exactly is the problem?

I got it to work. I didn't try hard enough to understand it.

Kind of hard to measure things on the computerscreen, I have to many pictures to print them all...

In the search for a simpel and easy tool to measure scale directly in a picture I was amazed that such a program did't exist!

So I desided to do something about it!

Is there anyone out there that want to beta test a small, and not finished, Measure Sizes In A Picture Program? It will be ready for first testing very soon.

-Kb

Certainly I'd like to see that so I'm willing to be a guinea pig. Are you thinking of an image viewer / scaler in one program?

Yes. It's a image measuring and scale program in one. I'm almost done with the measuring part, a few days and the program should be ready for first field testing. I'll send you a PM when it's ready, ok?

Great. I'll need to get some known measurements to try it out on. Cheers JP

The first test program is done. If someone wants to help me testing this litte tool just send me you email adress in a pm an i'll send you the program.

Remember: This is just a wery early beta version. There is still some bugs, but I'm working them out as soon as I find them (or others find them)