Rlw Carriage 1/30 scale (1 Viewer)

[TomB]

Have recently received measurements from a 1/30 Railway carriage....it matched up reasonable well with my 1/32 Loco....I would have thought it would have been too big......or is the 1/30 scale wrong as stated and is smaller...in real life the height of a Rlw carriage is approx 14/16 foot and higher......the scale height of my loco is approx 130mm and I consider it a small 1/32 scale loco...From the large scale aircraft pictures I have seen here on the forum...the figure along side the aircraft appear to be out of scale ....very tall soldiers and airman or a smaller scale aircraft than stated....I try to make my models to 54mm scale....but I am beginning to wonder why I should bother with scale.....maybe I should go ahead and make something and if the figures are too big for it...stiff.....scale is sure confusing.....TomB

 

[Mitch]

well, that's what some manufacturers do. There is no small or large within a given scale so, no small 1/32nd or large 1/30th. There is only 1/30th 1/32nd 1/35th and are absolute accurate scale categories. How some play around with this is open to interpretation and, confusion but, if it states X on the box that's what it should be. Figures are a different issue so long as the weapons and kit they use and wear are at an accurate size for their scale one can play around with the size of figures as in ''real'' life people are bigger, heavier, smaller etc so, an over scaled figure can still work what does look odd is every figure exactly the same height if one is concerned about scale!!! but, an AFV or a railway carriage as in your example cannot be anything other than the scale its copied from and stated. Anything else no matter who says it or, what manufacturer creates a new wheel description just does not really understand scale and, is playing semantics with its meaning.
Mitch

 

[TomB]

well, that's what some manufacturers do. There is no small or large within a given scale so, no small 1/32nd or large 1/30th. There is only 1/30th 1/32nd 1/35th and are absolute accurate scale categories. How some play around with this is open to interpretation and, confusion but, if it states X on the box that's what it should be. Figures are a different issue so long as the weapons and kit they use and wear are at an accurate size for their scale one can play around with the size of figures as in ''real'' life people are bigger, heavier, smaller etc so, an over scaled figure can still work what does look odd is every figure exactly the same height if one is concerned about scale!!! but, an AFV or a railway carriage as in your example cannot be anything other than the scale its copied from and stated. Anything else no matter who says it or, what manufacturer creates a new wheel description just does not really understand scale and, is playing semantics with its meaning.
Mitch

Thanks for that....I have a simple method for scales....54mm ..equals 6ft....12 ft is 108 mm etc......if a Tank is 12 ft high is should be two figures high....that is the way I see things....to the whato.with semantics.....I only have to please myself anyway so I dont known why I worry about it...cheers TomB