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Re: Finished Statue (Scale Computing)
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 3 Dec 2000 00:19:00 GMT
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I didn't realize that the SoL is so small... and I thought the pedestal
was taller than the statue..
this page says the pedestal is 154' tall... seems so small... i've never
seen it, but in my mind i thought it would tower the washington monument
(555' tall)... ah well. So how tall should the statue be to be 1:44?
or at least closer? :)
Jeff Boen wrote:
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> In lugnet.general, Tom Reed writes:
> > Would it work for a town layout? I'm not sure! At first I thought it too
> > large to be used in a town.
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> Well, let's look at it scientifically.
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> A minifig is (roughly) 1 and 5/8th's inches tall. That's 1.625".
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> If we say an average human is 6' tall, that's 72". So a minifig is 1:44th
> scale. (If I trash the math here, please feel free to correct me, I always
> seems to scuttle something in the mix)
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> Now the real statue of liberty is 152' tall (perched on a 150' pedestal).
> Since the pedestal of 3450 is minimal, we'll just leave it out of the equation.
> You said the model is 33.5" tall, so that makes it 2.79' tall, which means it
> is 1:54th scale.
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> So the statue is a bit smaller than minifig scale.
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| (...) Doh. Ok, after rereading the site I failed to mention in the last post: (URL) granite pedestal is 89' and the foundation is 65'... I still didn't run the numbers to find out how big a minifig scale one would be, but i did find a picture of the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Finished Statue (Scale Computing)
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| (...) Well, let's look at it scientifically. A minifig is (roughly) 1 and 5/8th's inches tall. That's 1.625". If we say an average human is 6' tall, that's 72". So a minifig is 1:44th scale. (If I trash the math here, please feel free to correct me, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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