Suppose I have scale plans for a subject, the plans are on 1/25, but due to technical reasons I can only use them at 68%, what would the scale of the resulting model be ? And more important, how do I do this calculation ?
Thanks
What you mean is you will end up with 1/25 scale plans printed at 68% so 25 multiplied by 0.68 (which is the decimal equivalent of 68%) equal 17. So that will produce 1/17 scale drawings.
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Shouldn’t a 1/25 scale at 68% of it’s size gives a even smaller scale? I’m confused…
I’m not too sure about your math. 1:17th scale doesn’t seem logical. That will result in a LARGER scale than 1:25th reduced to 68% (a 32% REDUCTION). The resulting model should be SMALLER.
On the original plans, one unit (inch, cm, whatever) represents 25 units on the real thing.
When the plans are reduced 0.68 units on the plan equals 25 units on the real thing.
I’m not too sure about the math either, but if you then divide 0.68 / 25 you get 0.027 and 1/0.027 equals 37… A scale of about 1:37 seems to be about right (logically).
The resulting model at 1:37 scale would be SMALLER than one at 1:25 scale
Shame on me. I made a multiplication instead of a division.
Damn I’m dumb.
Thanks guys, and, Yann, don’t worry you made a mistake, but I didn’t even know (or was too lazy to figure it out) where too start [;)]
So, why did I ask in the first place ?
A friend e-mailed me a lot of papermodels (I tend to get ideas to use them as templates for styrene models) in pdf-format, the thing is they are all much larger than the regular A4 paper I can feed to my printer (and I have no idea how to tile them with Acrobat Reader, if that is even possible at all), one of those “models” is a 1/25 Leopold gun…
Maybe you could get these files printed at a copying service store. It would be very well printed on quality paper for a few bucks and at proper scale. Just a suggestion.
A 1/25 Leopold would be very cool.
There is no shame Yann…
It’s a wise man who admits when he’s wrong…