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Dioramas: Small Scale
Dioramas of subjects smallers than 1/32 scale.
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1:285 *squints* little help on conversion...
gweeble
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Posted: Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 01:36 PM UTC
Ok, doing my first diorama in 1:285 scale, using GHQ metal minatures. I'm doing a small scene of a m4 sherman driving pass a bombed out farm house somewhere in Europe.

Yeah I know, 1:285 is teeeeeny, but it should get my feet wet. So, I need to find some way of figuring out conversion for this without having to relive high school matha nd give myself a monster headache.

Any charts floating around?
kkeefe
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Posted: Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 01:53 PM UTC
Power aspirin, or just "Wing it".(?) I won't tell anyone....
gweeble
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Posted: Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 02:42 PM UTC
*blinks*

If I wing it, I'm afraid of making a farmhouse for giants or for midgets.

Aspirin eh...
gweeble
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Posted: Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 03:18 PM UTC
aha... 1/285 ...

1" in real life is 23 feet 9 inches in scale.
1 meter is 3.5mm
1 foot is .042

*grins* true scale french farm house, here we come!
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Posted: Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 08:41 PM UTC
My salute to someone who jumps straight in with both feet to SUPER Braille Scale! #:-)
gweeble
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Posted: Monday, March 29, 2004 - 03:44 AM UTC
Yeah well, it's killing my eyes, I might size down this diorama
11Charlie
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Posted: Monday, March 29, 2004 - 05:39 AM UTC
Can't wait to see that one finished!
gweeble
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Posted: Monday, March 29, 2004 - 12:53 PM UTC
The whole diorama is like 2" x 3" - give or take a 1/4".

Wish I had a decent camera, I'd do in-progress shots...

This is my first diorama, heck I haven't done anything remotely like this since I was a little kid, so... It'll probably come out bad, haha.

My french farm house took a turn for the worse, so I just turned it into a collapsed ruin.

EEEESH this is tiny.
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