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If you're a freak like me, you love to convert things into minifig scale and
technic scale. You want to see exactly how long a minifig-scale mile would
be. And how tall would the Sears tower be in technic scale? Would a minifig
scale aircraft carrier fit in my room? How big is my room to my figs? Etc.
In a recent stint I decided I had enough and built myself a little
conversion tool. So I thought I'd share it with the world. Or the Lego
community at least:
http://www.suave.net/~dave/cgi/scale.cgi
Right now it only does minifig/technic fig scales, and also only goes by fig
height, but I haven't quite yet ever been so inclined to go by any other
measurement (since human widths and depths are hardly as 'standard'), so I
figured "nah".
Anyway, enjoy!
DaveE
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| (...) Nice! But for some reason, the result table isn't displayed when I use Netscrape 4.6. Can't see anything wrong with the HTML - strange. ROSCO (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| very cool how long before your conversion scale is adopted as the norm and everyone is quoting their MOCs in fig-meters :) -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "David Eaton" (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| All I need to know now, is approximately how big a diameter a Death Star has. <g> There'd have to be some compression of scale of a model that big, but I suppose something suitably spherical and not too cramped-looking could be figured out. :-) I (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Does the stud on the minifig's head count as part of its height, or do only short minifigs include that? Scott A =+= Have you inspected Arthur’s Seat yet? (URL) reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Awesome!Very neat, and geekyin a great way! Is it possible at all to add a feature to do the oppossite; so one can figure out how many studs a certain length in meters would be. So for example if I wanted to build a replica of a 17 meter long (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.general, David Eaton writes: So I thought I'd share it with the world. Or the Lego (...) Dave, you ROCK! This is quite a great little app-- I will use it constantly! I wish I had a dime for every time I've gotten out the calculator to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Hey, Cool tool! I was just converting scales today for some models, and wanting an easier way of doing it-and here you are! what do they say about great minds running on the same track?;-) of coarse you did it the easy way.... I was going to write (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, the newest US aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76 is 1092 feet long, giving it a minifig length just a hair over 25 feet. I actually COULD fit that in my pole barn where my Lego is workshop is. Now, where I could get that many (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Wow, cool! I had to do something like this recently - I teach AutoCAD here at OCC and we design, draw, and eventually race LEGO dragsters. We mostly use technic parts, but the minifigs are much more fun to play with so we use them as (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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