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Subject: 
RE: Scale Question
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.space, lugnet.build
Date: 
Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:32:54 GMT
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DaveG writes:
In lugnet.space, Bram Lambrecht writes:
Or any other convenient scale, as long as the proportions are close :)

What I meant by this is that width:length:height are in the same proportions
as the dimensions of the actual vehicle.

Scales based on wheel base! I had wondered about that too.
I had thought it was a Train reference but was not sure.

I don't know what you mean by scale based on wheel base...but I have built
models based on the size of available LEGO wheels...

I see what you mean with 5571, But is that not a 1:1 and
the others 1:1.33 and 1:1.66 for 8 and 6 wide? Did I miss
something?

I don't understand what you mean by 1:1...The 5571 is not life size, at
least not for me :)  When I say that my Diablo[1] model is 1:15 +- 5% scale,
I mean that if you multiplied each dimension by 15, the LEGO model would be
the same size as a real Lamborghini Diablo.  Similarly, my Hummer[2] and
Dodge Viper[3] are 1:30 +- 10% scale.
Hope that clears things up...
--Bram


1) http://bram.rapturesoft.com/cgi-bin/display.pl?m=diablo
2) http://bram.rapturesoft.com/cgi-bin/display.pl?m=hummer
3) http://bram.rapturesoft.com/cgi-bin/display.pl?m=dviper


Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/



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  Re: Scale Question
 
(...) I had thought it was a Train reference but was not sure. I see what you mean with 5571, But is that not a 1:1 and the others 1:1.33 and 1:1.66 for 8 and 6 wide? Did I miss something? Thanks for the pointers, you too Mark. I think I am going to (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.space)

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