Scale for Minifig scale mocs

[-Jim-]

Hi all. I am in the process of making a minifig scale crane and would like to know what sort of real scale people work to.

I am building to the scale of 1 horizontal brick equals 300mm. Is this the same as any one else or do people have another size?

Jim.

[DJ Force]

Hi all. I am in the process of making a minifig scale crane and would like to know what sort of real scale people work to.

I am building to the scale of 1 horizontal brick equals 300mm. Is this the same as any one else or do people have another size?

Jim.

I´m scaling to what looks good in proportion. My 2005 Mustang for example looks good for its own, but seems to be a little bit too large compared to minifigs. Yet, the overall proportions make it look okay, so I stick to it.

I don´t - absolutely don´t - like the proportions of official Lego cars. Those things just look way to tiny. A Lego car needs to hold 2 minifigs on the front seats IMO.

[aawsum]

I am building to the scale of 1 horizontal brick equals 300mm. Is this the same as any one else or do people have another size?

Minifig scale is normally sized looking at the minifig . Minifigscale is around 1:40. A guideline for a building is 7 bricks per floor. A common scale would be 3 studs = 1 meter, which is a bit more then your assumption of 1 stud is 300mm.

There is a lego scale converter site, but I have not used it myself.

Edited August 19, 2009 by aawsum

[gambort]

That may help. Discussion includes some comments relevant to trains.

Tim

Edited August 20, 2009 by gambort

[-Jim-]

Cheers all.

That Scale convertor site looks to complicated.

I am on the right track with my scale, its close enougth to the 3 studs to 1 metre scale as the moc is on the large size anyway.

Jim.

[Ralph_S]

Welcome to EuroBricks, Gambort. Unfortunately your link doesn't work, so here it is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gambort/2700119117/

Making pictures from flickr work as links in the code this forum uses takes some getting used to:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/gambort/2700119117/][img=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2700119117_4a9504a731.jpg][/url]

Gambort's figure clearly shows the issue: minifigs are oddly-proportioned little buggers. Depending on what you want, there's a pretty large range of scales to choose from without things looking too silly. I tend to stick towards the small end of the scale and I'll explain why using cars as an example. I tend to use my mine together with cyclists, pedestrians and buildings. That means I tend to opt for the lower range of the scale, roughly 1/45. Cars typically end up five studs wide and trucks seven, which is very close to most LEGO city vehicles. If I were to insist on having enough space inside them to fit two figures side-by-side, they'd look ridiculously large next to the figures.

If you car is a stand-alone MOC, however, and you don't put standing figures next to it, a larger scale can look decent. One studs equals 30 cm is a scale of about 1/37, which is larger than I would use, but it isn't unreasonable.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Milan]

Hi all. I am in the process of making a minifig scale crane and would like to know what sort of real scale people work to.

I am building to the scale of 1 horizontal brick equals 300mm. Is this the same as any one else or do people have another size?

Jim.

It is better to just follow some rough proportions as said before.

What crane do you want to build? Mobile or tower crane?

I have some experience in building cranes both minifigs scale and 16-24 studs wide, so I may be of some assistance for you in this project.

In minifigs I used 8 or 10 studs wide chassis with best results.