And by that I mean, if you can carry it for at least 25 feet without having to put it down to rest your arms, it’s in a teeny, tiny scale.
1:1 scratchbuilding/kitbashing (aka “home improvement”) involves a whole different order of things. Fer instance, you can’t get 1:1 1x4x12 lumber (among other sizes) into a Toyota Corolla. It’s a piece of cake in the smaller scales.
Floor tile in the smaller scales is likely to be a sheet of Evergreen styrene scribed in squares. In 1:1 scale, the tiles (12x12) come in packs of 15 that weigh about 45-50 lbs each. You also need thinset mortar and grout (in our case, about 100 lbs of mortar and 25 lbs of grout). Windows in the smaller scales can generally just be glued in and you don’t need to caulk or use expanding foam in the cracks. Let’s face it. In the smaller scales, no one is living inside your buildings (unless it’s mice in the larger teeny scales, spiders, roaches, fleas and other nuisances and no one cares if they suffer from drafts). If you’re replacing old windows in the smaller scales, you don’t have to worry about breaking one, especially not the big plate glass window you so carefully removed and you don’t have to worry about the cost of heating.
You don’t need a 4 to 30 yard dumpster in which to toss the debris from either building from the ground up or modifying what’s there. Under normal circumstances an ordinary wastepaper basket is of sufficient capacity for your debris. You also don’t have to pay extra for that wastepaper basket, either.
One of the major advantages to smaller scale scratchbuilding/kitbashing is that you don’t need plumbing. IOW, you don’t need to add the toilet and sink (and associated plumbing) to your laundry room to make a 1/2 bath. Nobody uses it in the smaller scales. In most cases, unless you’re building a showpiece or something at the front of your layout, it won’t have any interior features at all. That vanity and
