Evil Eye Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 I'm well and truly diving down the JoyToy rabbit hole, to the point I've actually started work on designing a fully printable 1/18 oldschool Marine as a companion piece. (Note that head and shoulder pad are someone else's STLs and are only being used for reference) Anyway, to cut straight to the point, how much bigger would you need to make a 40K piece to make it 1/18 scale? I ask this not only for the purposes of upscaling STLs for customs (purely for personal use I hasten to add!) but also because I had a crackpot idea for tracking down the templates for scratchbuilding a Rhino and blowing them up to 1/18 and making a JoyToy Rhino. Thanks! LameBeard 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384541-scaling-models-from-our-scale-to-118/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted November 10 Share Posted November 10 (edited) So you would need to work out what scale 40k is first (32mm Firstborn is 8 foot / 2440mm), then increase the Rhino dimensions to match 1:1, then reduce those dimensions to 1/18th. Loose math says 40k is 1/76th, so x4 is about right to get to 1/18th scale Edited November 10 by Grotsmasha LameBeard and Evil Eye 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384541-scaling-models-from-our-scale-to-118/#findComment-6075079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution LameBeard Posted November 10 Solution Share Posted November 10 Yeah I got 28mm = 6ft = 1800mm so 40k is approx 1/64th. So 64/18 = 3.57 ie scale up 3.5 times, a bit less than @Grotsmasha. But I would also say this is just maths. What “looks right” to the eye isn’t always mathematical, and people often complain rhinos don’t look like they could hold 10 marines. I’d mock something up in cardboard before any expensive printing. Evil Eye 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384541-scaling-models-from-our-scale-to-118/#findComment-6075083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted November 10 Share Posted November 10 I did a little rounding Evil Eye and LameBeard 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384541-scaling-models-from-our-scale-to-118/#findComment-6075087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Eye Posted November 10 Author Share Posted November 10 Thanks both! 3.5X to 4X sounds about right. Certainly if as and when I do scratchbuild the Rhino, there will be some artistic license taken (as you say, 10 marines ain't fitting in the back) so maybe I need not to overthink things. LameBeard 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384541-scaling-models-from-our-scale-to-118/#findComment-6075114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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