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Posted by lesliitwinkle on Saturday, April 15, 2023 1:44 AM

Good Lord; the responses make me dizzy. 1"= 1/12'.

 

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Posted by Bugatti Fan on Thursday, April 13, 2023 7:35 AM

If anyone needs metric from inch dimensions, to convert inches to millimetres the conversion is one inch equals 25.4 mm.

Naturally to do this conversion inches would need to be expressed as a decimal dimension.   

Eg. one and three eights would need expressing as 1.375.

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Sunday, February 12, 2023 4:51 PM

Good idea ,thanks!

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, February 12, 2023 3:41 PM

For future projects, get yourself an architect's scale. Basically a triangular looking ruler with various scales of inches to scale length measurements. Common scales  included are 1/4, 1/2, 1/10, etc. One end has an actual inch broken down into scale length, and the rest of that edge has the scale length. With the ruler being in a triangular configuration, it is usually a 1/1 actual side, plus five different other scales.

 

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Posted by Space Ranger on Saturday, February 11, 2023 9:23 PM

Eugene Rowe

So for 1/25 scale and the dimensions are 15 inches long,4 75 inches wide and 7 inches high what would that be in feet for a full sized Winnie?



Multiply dimensions of the model in inches by 25 (the denominator of the scale fraction) to get the dimensions of the full-size article in inches, then divide those measurements by 12 to get feet.

There will be a quiz on scales and conversions tomorrow. Bring a #2 pencil and a Big Chief tablet.

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, February 11, 2023 3:15 PM

Thank you ,!it's been an epic build!

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Posted by JoeSMG on Saturday, February 11, 2023 3:02 PM

Your winnebago  looks awesome!

 

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, February 11, 2023 1:43 PM

Thanks! 

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Posted by Jon_a_its on Saturday, February 11, 2023 12:59 PM

Google Frank Krenshaw ScaleCalc 2.5 a downloadable widget that takes all the whip out of all sorts of calculations. 

Which would give a a 25th scale 15" as a 1:1 31' 4"

 

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, February 11, 2023 12:48 PM

So for 1/25 scale and the dimensions are 15 inches long,4 75 inches wide and 7 inches high what would that be in feet for a full sized Winnie?

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, February 11, 2023 12:32 PM

Ok thanks!

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Posted by Space Ranger on Saturday, February 11, 2023 12:30 PM

As there are 12 inches in 1 foot, simply divide inches by 12.

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Posted by PFJN2 on Saturday, February 11, 2023 11:56 AM

Hi,

I guess it all depends on whose "inches" and whose "feet" you are talking about.  At full scale 1 "inch" equals 1 "foot", which hasn't changed eventhough the new "King" (Charles) probably has bigger feet than the former Queen (Elizabeth II).

At different scales just multiply an inch by the scale factor, and then divide by twelve to get feet.  Hence at 1/24th scale 1 real inch would equal 1 x "24" x "12" = 2 scale feet, etc

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Equation to convert inches to feet ...
Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, February 11, 2023 11:48 AM

I am presently building a scratch -built Winnebago and it is quite large ,what is the equation to convert inches to feet?

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