I saw a painting of a man and a child looking at the Viet Nam Memorial and I thought that it would be a nice idea for a diorama. My question to you is what is the actual height of that wall? How does one scale the wall down to 1/35th?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Wall

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"Each of the walls is 246.75 feet long, composed of 70 separate inscribed granite panels, plus 4 at the end without names; the panels themselves are 40 inches in width; the largest panels have 137 lines of names, while the shortest have one; there are five names on each line, although with new additions of names, some lines now have six; the walls are supported by 140 concrete pilings driven approximately 35 feet (some are at 20 feet) to bedrock; at the vertex the walls are 10.1 feet in height. "
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Hi Jody

That's a pretty big project you're thinking about there. If you're wondering about modeling the entire thing, then in 1/35th scale, each wall would be about 7 feet long (246 feet divided by 35). The wall height at the vertex would therfore be about 3 1/3 inches high (again, 10.1 feet divided by 35). You could do a section of the wall, say 40 - 50 feet of it. In scale that would be approximately 1 to 1 1/2 feet.



Bob

Hey thanks for the info guys. I am just modeling 1 section in 1/35th scale.