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| I know I'm behind the power curve here. If I wanted to build a ship, to scale of the minifigs, How do I determine appropriate lengths and heights? My friend Jennifer stated, to build an aircraft carrier to scale, it would have to be 15 feet long. I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) For my own scaling, I use 1 stud = 1 foot or 3 studs = 1 meter. You will have to do some selective compression and such, but it's simple. The height is tricky. The lego brick is 6/5 taller than it is wide, so 5 bricks = 6 feet or roughly 2 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Ever the adamante for scale, I'll put in $.02. Minifigs are silly. They're hideously disproportionate to real people. Not to mention that people themselves are often hideously disproportionate to each other :) Going by "average" human height, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Thanks David, Plenty of good info to work with here. If I remember correctly (I'm on the Carl Vinson right now) my car is about 15-16 feet long and about 5-6 feet wide. Thanks again, Joe (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Well, Mr. Cardana, for my LEGO train cars and locomotives I'm designing, I am using a scale of 1:40 (slightly larger than Lionel(R) trains). My assumptions were based on taking measurements from a minifig, and assuming it to be in the 5-6 scale-foot (...) (23 years ago, 9-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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