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John Mk2

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Working out scale ?
« on: November 12, 2011, 01:18:37 pm »
Not to good at math's  {:-{ If a real boat is 50ft loa & the model is 30in any idea of the scale ?
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Jerry C

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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2011, 01:23:22 pm »
1/20
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John Mk2

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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2011, 01:24:18 pm »
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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2011, 01:25:59 pm »
Drat..too late again  %)
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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2011, 04:33:39 pm »
Errrr, try that again Mermod.

  Regards  Ian.


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John Mk2

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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2011, 04:34:59 pm »
Not right then ?
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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2011, 04:36:07 pm »
Mermod is right.

50' = 600"

600"/30" = 20.

Scale = 1/20th

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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2011, 04:39:47 pm »
Sorry, having a senior, 30" = 2 1/2 ft. NOT 1 1/2.

   To work scale out, divide full size by model size. Which gives, as Mermod correctly stated 1/20.

  So it would take 2 1/2 X 20 to make the full size.

  Regards  Ian.

 Can only put it down to having to become bi *exual in the seventies when we were supposed to go metric. :D
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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2011, 05:23:52 pm »
Quote from: Circlip on November 12, 2011, 04:39:47 pm
Can only put it down to having to become bi *exual in the seventies when we were supposed to go metric. :D

I prefer the term 'ambidextrous'  :-)


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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2011, 06:15:24 pm »

Try here, takes all the pain out of it.



http://www.botsuite.com/shipshape.html



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Re: Working out scale ?
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2011, 08:50:14 pm »
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