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1/35th Scale chart

Discussion in 'Sculpting' started by Alex M., Sep 27, 2004.

  1. Alex M. Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Hey guys,

    I got a chart from a fellow planeteer a few days ago, and finally got around to printing it but it seems too small...sized up with a 1/35th figure, it's off by a cm at least..

    Is there something i'm doing it wrong (i'm working through photoshop and printing it at actual size, not scaled down or anything)

    Is there something else out there you might recommend ?

    -Alex
  2. Anders Heintz Well-Known Member

    Country:
    United-States
    Hey Alex,

    :( Well, did you try to rescale it so it will print in right size? Use the chart that I sent with the different percentages in the lower right hand side, find 1/35th, adjust accordingly. If it doesnt print the right size, then make the adjustments and print again.
  3. Alex M. Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Hey man,

    That's the chart i was using, and even scaled properly, it wouldn't print right..so i don't what's goin on..
    Let me know..

    -Alex
  4. Einion Well-Known Member

    Alex, this could be a resolution/size thing in Photoshop. In a pixel-based image the way that size works sometimes isn't as obvious as you'd expect.

    If the file Anders supplied was SS (same size) at a given resolution you just need to print it at 100%. If this is the case and it doesn't come out at the right size the printer's RIP might be interfering - we used to find a one or two percent discrepancy in laser prints.

    Regardless of the cause, to work out what scale to print it use the formula:
    % = SR x 100 / OS
    That's the size you need times 100 divided by the current size on the printout.

    Einion
  5. Alex M. Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Thanks for the help guys..figured it out during my sleepless night last night...i just measured out the height of a "perfectly" straight standing figure, hornet and corpus (i like their version of 1/35th) and scaled the chart

    -Alex
  6. Einion Well-Known Member

    Hi Alex, 1/35 scale shouldn't be scaled to a figure ideally, you should use something of a known, fixed, dimension like a rifle.

    Average height for 1/35 scale can be considered 49.3mm but that depends of course on what height the person depicted is ;)

    Einion
  7. Alex M. Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    My armature is a rough measurement based on my preferred scale of 1/35th (i find warriors to be a bit on the large size, so it measures out (from boots to peaked cap) of about 50mm

    I measure it partially with the height of the panzerfaust based on the leg (images i have of one being held straight down next to a leg) so it's about the right height..i think my calculations brought the subject out to 5'10"-6'

    Thanks again for your help,

    Alex
  8. Einion Well-Known Member

    Hi Alex, thought this might help, in 1/35 scale:
    Average height (roughly 5'8") = 49.3mm
    5'10" = 50.8mm
    6' = 52.3mm
    To paraphrase something Dudley Moore said, when you're this small every millimetre counts :)

    Einion
  9. Alex M. Active Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Then the figure measures out to 52mm...just shy of 6" ;)
    Looks like he'll be that big, mean, cream of the crop SS officer

    -Alex
  10. garyjd Well-Known Member

    Country:
    United-States
    Guys, I have found the scaler on this site to be of great value in calclating the height of a figure or length of a musket/rifle.~Gary

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