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help on finding 1:100 scale items
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| Richard 2005-09-13, 8:21 pm |
| Hello,
I'm trying to find 1:100 scale human figures and possibly vehicles for a
diorama that a friend built some time ago and now I'm helping to finish off.
Unfortunately I wasn't aware of it at the time and so had no say in the
unusual scale he used.
I understand Architects sometimes use this scale when making landscape
displays, does anyone know of any manufacturers who make model items in this
scale?
Regards,
Richard
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| D. A. Hicks 2005-09-14, 4:21 pm |
| 1:100 is a standard scale size here in Europe.
It's only America that are about 40 years behind it seems :-) ( LOL)
David
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| Troppo 2005-09-14, 4:21 pm |
| "Richard" <dcraigie@austarmetro.com.au> wrote in
news:432758ed$0$12687$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to find 1:100 scale human figures and possibly vehicles for
> a diorama that a friend built some time ago and now I'm helping to
> finish off. Unfortunately I wasn't aware of it at the time and so had
> no say in the unusual scale he used.
> I understand Architects sometimes use this scale when making landscape
> displays, does anyone know of any manufacturers who make model items
> in this scale?
>
1:100 scale is commonly used for elevations and may include people and
vehicles to give 'scale' to buildings and other constructed items, and
trees and shrubs, existing and proposed, might also appear. However, in
most CAD drawings, these are drawn in real world units, eg
representations of people will be around 1 - 1.9 metres, and the drawing
is only scaled when printed. 1:100 for a typical building with people and
vehicles printed at A3 will not show much detail. Archives of postings to
any CAD newsgroup, or internet search engines will throw up links to CAD
blocks which can be inserted in drawings. If the blocks are already
scaled, they can be rescaled to the required drawing units.
The difficult bit will be finding blocks which are typically Australian,
eg you might not find any trees that have the characteristics of
eucalypts. Regarding trucks, you will find plenty of 18 wheeler semis but
not 26 wheelers/B-Doubles/road trains. You might have to buy these or
modify existing blocks, eg copy/extend to insert the third axle....
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| RicodJour 2005-09-14, 5:21 pm |
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D. A. Hicks wrote:
> 1:100 is a standard scale size here in Europe.
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> It's only America that are about 40 years behind it seems :-) ( LOL)
Possibly because we learn at an early age that it's possible to divide
by numbers other than 10. Seriously. It can be done.
http://tinyurl.com/chcxt
R
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| I think you'll find he's referring to real model people not CAD models.
There will be loads of manufacturers making 1:100 scale people and vehicles
for architectural models I would have thought as its a common scale here in
the UK although not as common as 1:200 or 1:500 scale models - just do a
search on Google. They will probably cost a bit more though. Have you
thought about model railways - dont know what scales they use but they may
be quite close.
Nats
"Troppo" <troppo19@notsohotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96D22F2F97E51troppo19notsohotmail@210.8.230.25...
> "Richard" <dcraigie@austarmetro.com.au> wrote in
> news:432758ed$0$12687$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:
>
> 1:100 scale is commonly used for elevations and may include people and
> vehicles to give 'scale' to buildings and other constructed items, and
> trees and shrubs, existing and proposed, might also appear. However, in
> most CAD drawings, these are drawn in real world units, eg
> representations of people will be around 1 - 1.9 metres, and the drawing
> is only scaled when printed. 1:100 for a typical building with people and
> vehicles printed at A3 will not show much detail. Archives of postings to
> any CAD newsgroup, or internet search engines will throw up links to CAD
> blocks which can be inserted in drawings. If the blocks are already
> scaled, they can be rescaled to the required drawing units.
> The difficult bit will be finding blocks which are typically Australian,
> eg you might not find any trees that have the characteristics of
> eucalypts. Regarding trucks, you will find plenty of 18 wheeler semis but
> not 26 wheelers/B-Doubles/road trains. You might have to buy these or
> modify existing blocks, eg copy/extend to insert the third axle....
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| D. A. Hicks 2005-09-14, 5:21 pm |
| Na, you borrowed it from us in the first place !
David
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| P Fritz 2005-09-14, 5:21 pm |
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"Nats" <nstutt@nstutt.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I think you'll find he's referring to real model people not CAD models.
>
> There will be loads of manufacturers making 1:100 scale people and
vehicles
> for architectural models I would have thought as its a common scale here
in
> the UK although not as common as 1:200 or 1:500 scale models - just do a
> search on Google. They will probably cost a bit more though. Have you
> thought about model railways - dont know what scales they use but they may
> be quite close.
>
> Nats
Model Train scales
HO - 1/87 which would be the closest.
S - 1/64
O - 1/48
G - 1/22
N - 1/160
Z - 1/220
I used HO figures, and plastic parts (I beams etc.) in school many times for
1/8" models......was close enough.
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> "Troppo" <troppo19@notsohotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96D22F2F97E51troppo19notsohotmail@210.8.230.25...
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