Barry,
Completely agree that people should not be scared of drawings or scales but it does seem to be a stumbling block with a lot of modellers.
One way of dealing with it is to use an existing drawing in a differrent scale and create your own conversion scale along one edge of it. Then you simply take all dimensions off the existing plan with dividers, put the dividers onto your scale and read off the real dimension from the scale. You then reset your dividers to a 1-1 scale and transfer to the model.
This is exactly the same way that navigators work with sea charts to determine distances (who ever heard of a 1-1 scale sea chart!) and it can be just as easy to use for model plans.
This, of course, saves having to have the plan redrawn in the scale you want your model to be.
Just another angle to consider. |