yeah, sorry, know it’s bin asked a thousand times
but how do you devide real scale to HO for scratchbuilding
doing a progect for math
scale model dream house
so im happy, veryeassy for me
and she said the more relistic we make it look, the more points we get
so, modelrailroading is doing good for me evenn in school
thanks
HO Scale is 1/87th.
If you don’t have an HO scale ruler, I would suggest 1/8 inch to the foot, which is common for small architectural models, is on any architect’s scale (usually available at office supply stores), and is very close to HO. Plus, you can also scale it out on any common ruler (1" = 8 scale feet), since every 1/8" mark on the ruler equals a foot and every 1/16" is 6 inches.
HO (1/87) is effectively 3.5 mm per foot. Most hobby shops carry reasonably priced steel HO scale rulers, should you choose to go that route.
Good luck on your project.
One inch HO scale equals (approximately) 87 inches of the real thing.
Not that it matters much but I think the actual number is 87.0857 when using the true converson of 3.5mm per foot.
BTW, PRR67, you may want to work on your spelling a little bit… Project, Divide, Realistic, and Easy… Wouldn’t want to pull that GPA down due to silly spelling errors after doing a bang up job on the model. [8D]
If you have to do a write up, be sure to spell it project. Spelling may count.
And could you post a picture when you’re done? We’d like to see it. Thanks.
Yes! [:)]
im going to post a pic, it won’t be my best work, because there is little time to make it, but i;m going to makeit look as good as possible, i want a good grade, and one day i may decide to spruce it up even more because it may end up on the layout,
but i dont have many supplies for scratchbuilding on hand, such as window frames and such, because hobbytown usa doesnt have them, but i may add them later, and it looks like im going to have to make my own siding piece by piece with styrene,
so it really will be a scratchbuilt house
but yeah, it should be pretty cool
the only bad thing about the progect is that i have to put in all the furnature and rooms inside too, but they just have to be loosely related pieces of foam
Just like you can build your own walls, siding, roofing, etc, you can make your own window frames too… Not that difficult to do. Scale 1x2 or 1x3 should do the trick…
On another note, I guess “progect” is a Georgia school thing… [:P]
Show us what you’ve accomplished when you get there…
Good luck.
Andrew,
See the following link for more in-depth discussion on the topic of HO:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=66059
Tom
sorry, about the spelling, i haven’t bin on here in a long time, i usually take more time on my spelling, but all that i have bin typing on lately is aim, and i type fast, so i usually dont pay any attention to it except when im on here, or writing for school, but yes i do tend to misspell project a lot for some reason.
thanks tstage
and everyone else
oh, and here is some rough draft floor plans i’ve made up
some of you may go " hey, where’s the huge supercool dream layout in the dream house"
the answer is that i have to show everylevel of the house and details, so the first and second floor are going to be hard enough to build, then make them seperable, and then figure out how to permanatly attatch them when i’m done. and building a basemen, not to mention one with and HO scale HO layout in it, would be extremely hard to do. and i dont have much time so yeah.
but here’s some of the rough draft floor plans
ok, im having trouble figuring this out, need 100 yards for lacrosse field =91440
now do you devide that by 3.5, or multiply it to get HO scale, cause the way i did it it came out way to big
A hundred yards is 300 feet. Divide by 87, and you get about 3.45 feet. Yes, a lacrosse field in HO would be over a yard long. The nets (6x6 feet) would be about 0.83 inches square. Yes, that seems big, but if you place 6 50-foot boxcars end to end, you should get about the same measurement as the field.
Back when I played lacrosse in college, we all used wooden sticks with gut and leather strips woven for the basket part. Now, my daughter is captain of the freshman team in high school. Great sport.
yes it is, wish we had a freshman team down here. my HS is getting a team next year, i’ve bin playing since 5th grade when lived up in delaware, but basicly anyone that’s played before is atomaticly making varsity, i think i would of made varstity by my second year of hs anyway, but i would of started out in JV my first year just to get used to it, plus i havent played all year cause the youth leagues down here are wierd, but anyway
i kinda figured that out, thanks though
i think i’ll just put half a field on though, kinda just relized how big a lacrosse field is, and my plan is for it to be bigger than the field, so yeah, im going to have to scale it down some lol
At a recent train show, I saw a modular layout with a soccer field. What the builder did was make half a soccer field, and put a mirror at midfield so it looked like a full field. The illusion was very well done, and my old eyes didn’t catch the mirror for a while.
good idea,but im not sure how i would set it up at the time, but when it get to the layout i just may have to try that