Comments on: Scaling Tutorial for Vehicles

By: cars

cars — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:54:45 +0000

good tutorial- it’ll probably help a lot of people get started in scale modeling. i’m working on a 9.6:1 scale model of a city car based on the smart fortwo at the moment, and these equations have been floating through my mind for the past few weeks.

By: Rodney Leinberger

Rodney Leinberger — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:59:40 +0000

In the very first line, you have “…choosing a a scale…” You might want to get rid of the extra letter ‘a’.

By: Sariel

Sariel — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:12:01 +0000

@Mecho12345 Perhaps you did something wrong.

By: Mecho12345

Mecho12345 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:06:54 +0000

Hi
Good tut. but I need some help I am trying to make a mustang (’96 Shelby gt400) and according to this it should be 52 studs long with the small nxt2.0 tyres (to name a set) it seems waaaaaaay to big

By: Sariel

Sariel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:07:43 +0000

I know that technique, but I find it less convenient and less reliable.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:58:52 +0000

Great tutorial,
I build scale models as well, but just for the look.
For the measurements I always find it easy to print the blueprint out at the scale of the model, so I can measure the model with the blueprint directly.

By: Ogden

Ogden — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:10:55 +0000

Aw, Damn! I must have been talking about the RATIOS between the height, width, length, etc. Sorry about this, user error

By: Sariel

Sariel — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:39:35 +0000

@Ogden
The common definition of the stud unit is the width of a single brick/liftarm. It’s not just the round piece and it’s not the height. And it’s exactly 8 mm. Try to measure the length and width of 1×10 brick: you will get 8×80 mm.

By: Ogden

Ogden — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:27:41 +0000

@Sariel Sorry to be a bit persistent, but I know that a stud unit is 5mm, the round bit on top is 3mm in diameter, and the height of a classic lego brick is 6mm.

By: Sariel

Sariel — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:27:58 +0000

@Ogden I mean the stud as a unit, e.g. the width of a brick, not just the round thing with LEGO name on it.

By: Ogden

Ogden — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:20:03 +0000

I have been using this tutorial for a while now, and I’ve only just noticed that you’ve said that a stud is 8mm, whereas a stud is actually 5mm. If it were 8, lego would look more like duplo!

By: M-Man

M-Man — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:40:31 +0000

good tutorial. mabey next you could do one on chassis and drivetrain.