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Good evening,
I need to enlarge a set of plans in the Hunnicut Sherman book to use as reference for the placement of the fender support brackets for my 1/35 DML Thunderbolt Sherman kit.
The plans in the book are 1/48 scale. What percentage do I need to enlarge them to get them to 1/35 scale? I will enlarge them on the photocopier/printer at my job.
Thanks.
48 divided by 35 is about 1.37, or 137%. That said, the plans in the early Hunnicutt books are not strictly reliable, as they were produced before modern CAD programs were available. They were drawn by Phil Dyer in 1/24th scale, reduced photographically to approximately 1/48th, re-inked so the lines weren't too skinny to see, and photographed again for publication, and each step in this process introduced errors. All this means that you have to check each individual drawing against the dimensions published in the back of the book, as many are off by several percent, and the errors vary from page to page. Since 1/48th scale is one inch equals four feet, an ordinary ruler will suffice, or you can buy an engineer's scale rule with a 1/48th scale at any stationery store.
In some cases, Dyer has since revised and altered his drawings in recent years, so check his occasional articles in back issues of "Military Modelling" for improved drawings. His original Sherman Jumbo drawing has a very inaccurate turret profile, for instance.
