![]() You’ll want the model to be as detailed as possible but probably won’t want it to take up and entire room. Your first calculation will probably be how large the overall model needs to be. The Size Chart also lists the most common Imperial and metric drawing scales so you can find the model sizes that most closely match. The last column gives the common uses for the scale to help you determine what products exists for purchase. The list describes what I think are the most useful model sizes from 1:700 to 1:6 with inch equivalents for each scale as well as the length of a linear foot and meter for each as well. The visual chart will give you an easy way of determining the size of figures in the various scales that will be most common to concept models. The calculations are mine so any mistakes are solely mine as well. I created the chart above as well as the list below from many years worth of notes and scribbles. The model is somehow “more real”, because it is. ![]() The brain isn’t spending effort trying to do the mental tricks required to process fake 3D images. A lot of revelations often come from being able to look at a model from many different angles at once. A number of people are able to simultaneously view the model and discuss it. The huge ship measured only 3/16″ in the model scale. I once built a model of an area of geography that the producers couldn’t seen to understand exactly how big an area it was until I put in the final piece, a model of the 260 foot ship they planned to use for a crew base. The physical size of a set are much easier to grasp than from a digital model where you can zoom in endlessly. Some of the advantages of a physical scale model are: And even the programs or systems that are ‘true 3D’ are really only offset 2D images meant to trick the mind into thinking it’s seeing a dimensional physical shape. Although the modeling programs continue to produce more and more realistic looking images, they are still only a 2D image that utilizes correct perspective. Comparative Scale Figure Diagram – You can download a pdf copy of this diagram below.Įven with the large number of computer 3D modeling programs available to designers, there is (and I think always will be) a place for physical scale models.
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