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 Rank: Beginner Level 3 Groups: Registered
Joined: 23/02/2012 Posts: 28 Points: 80 Location: Act
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probably no answer or stupid but i was wondering how do people scale things like say i want to make a bucket how do i scale that to the ship i am building what dimensions would i use or say a chest how do i scale that maybe asked sorry if it has but would love some insight as im dumb
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 Rank: Super-Elite        Groups: Registered
Joined: 04/04/2010 Posts: 3,955 Points: 11,809 Location: uk
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I've had a long hard think,on how to answer this question,your not into maths,so,Cheat,yes it can be done.first you must know what scale your working in,then if you want to know what size bucket you need,google it.example, 1/84th. bucket for model ship,google that and presto,you have multiple choices.just play around until you find it,this website do ships accessories http://www.cornwallmodel...log/amati_fittings.html
they usually give the sizes for whatever scale you use.good luck. k. Current builds: SotS, USS Consitution, San Felipe, D51 loco, HMS Surprise, RB7, Arab Dhow, Jotika HMS Victory Completed builds: HMS Pickel, Thermopylae, Mississipi river boat, Mary Rose, Cutty Sark, San Francisco II, HMS Victory x5, Titanic Lifeboat, Panart HMS Victory Launch, Hachette Titanic, Virginia Schooner, Endeavour Longboat. http://www.model-space.com/gb/
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 Rank: Master  Groups: Registered
Joined: 05/09/2012 Posts: 1,400 Points: 4,690 Location: Beaminster, Dorset
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First as Karl says you need to know the scale of the model, The Sovereign of the Seas is 1/84 or 1:84, The Victory X-Section is 1/72 etc. So for example with the SOTS at 1/84 everything is 84 times smaller, so if you want to scale down divide by 84. A bucket I have outside the back door is 250mm high, so 250/84 = almost exactly 3. So an equivalent scale bucket for this model would be 3mm high. If you want to find out how big in real terms something on your model would be then do the opposite and multiply by 84. So the SOTS is going to be 90cm high, then in real life it would be 90 x 84 = 7560cm or 75.6 metres high.
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Rank: Beginner Level 3 Groups: Registered
Joined: 23/02/2012 Posts: 28 Points: 80 Location: Act
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thanks for the answers guys was looking the easy way i guess makes perfect sense now was having a brain closure was trying to build a bucket in scale 1/84 but didnt know where to start as i didnt have a bucket handy lol
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 Rank: Vice-Master Groups: Registered
Joined: 05/03/2015 Posts: 561 Points: 1,713 Location: South Carolina
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I agree with the above. Basically scale is just how many of this kit it would take to equal the length of the actual thing. So if you have a ship that is like 1:144 scale, that means it would take 144 of this ship laid end to end to equal the same length of the original ship. Most kits give you a scale you're working in. But if they don't, you can usually find the length of the original ship online. Then you measure the length of your ship and you divide the original length by the model length and you have the scale.
For example... if the original length of the ship is 250 feet long... and your model is only 12 inches long, you're working in 1:250 scale (250ft/1ft = 250). So anything that you wish to scale to size you simply divide by 250, and you'll have the approximate length to use for the miniture. This can be achieved in any unit of measurement inches/meters/etc). Hope that helps a bit, even if it did basically just reiterate what was said above but I hope in a more layman's term to understand better.
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