hi crew i have a few scratch built models but i dont understand the sizes of the scale. i have done a 3ft & 4ft & now working on a 5ft ( i only work in foot) please let me know has we all learn somethink new every day even the pro's thanks 4 ya help once again, sorry my dioramas are not in my gallery (i'll sort that out )

I'm not really sure what you mean by "I work only in foot," but scale is a fraction.

For instance, in 1/35 scale, a thing that is 35 feet long will be only one foot long. A 5 foot, 2-inch tall man (= 70 inches) will be 2 inches tall in 1/35 scale.

In 1/48 scale, one foot equals 48 scale feet.

In 1/72 scale, one foot equals 72 feet. A six-foot tall man (6 feet = 72 inches) is one inch tall in 1/72.

sorry about that im very tired i mean feet (5ft) cheers for your help anyway

Hope this doesn't confuse you further Warzone, but for me the easiest way to figure out this scale thingy is to look at this way. Whether its feet or metres is not important.

1. To convert from real life to model DIVIDE measurements in real life by 35. Whatever you get will be in the measure you used
(i.e. feet divided by 35 will give you the scale in feet , albeit in decimal points. To convert to something meaningful just multiply by 12 to get it to inches)

2. To convert from model to real life just MULTIPLY everything by 35. If you have your model measured in feet then after multiplication it would be in feet and likewise if its inches.

Hope that didn't make it worse.

[ cheers guys for the info & help but i guess scale mean nothing to me i just do my dioramas but at least you & i learn somethink new every day even if your a pro or not. cheers dudes