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rescaling?
Posted by Redss733 on Sunday, October 25, 2020 2:30 PM

im planning on building a 1/700 scale naval diorama. i have some papers that are in 1/800 scale. i plan on doing some work on my laptop for this. ho much do i need to rescale down to 1/700 from 1/800?

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Posted by ddp59 on Monday, October 26, 2020 11:45 AM
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Posted by GMorrison on Monday, October 26, 2020 4:18 PM

114 % of original.

Scale up actually.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 9:12 AM

For any rescaling, there is a simple trick that doesn't involve much math.  Make a fraction from the two scales.  It is either 700/800, or 800/700.  To see which to use, do you want to make it bigger or smaller.  If bigger, the fraction must be bigger than 1.  So it would be 800/700.  If you are scaling down it must be smaller than 1, so you would use 700/800.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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