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Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:53:49 GMT
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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 would guess that I'd have to do it virtually, or figure out how to buy my
own planet to put the model on! <g>
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Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
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"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> wrote in message
news:GsuD9o.JtD@lugnet.com...
> 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:
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> http://www.suave.net/~dave/cgi/scale.cgi
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> 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".
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> Anyway, enjoy!
>
> DaveE
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| (...) Geoff, Well, according to my 1997 Star Wars "The Vehicles" Calendar the Death Star is (was) 160 km in diameter. So using Mr. Eaton's convertor with one minifig at six feet you get a diameter of 459317.59 studs!! (Actual scale size would then (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.faq) !!
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