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Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool
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Date: 
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:50:37 GMT
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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

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In lugnet.general, David Eaton writes:
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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  Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool
 
(...) I estimated minifigs at a height of 42mm, which was (IIRC) the total overall height of a minifig consisting of: -minifig hip & legs assembly -minifig torso -minifig head -minifig male hair You can adjust minifig height with different hair (or (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)

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  Lego Scale Conversion Tool
 
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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