Defining Size

[Paul B Technic]

When talking about the size of a set or a MOC, as small, medium or large, is this done based on:

- Physical size?

- Piece count?

- Cost?

- A combination of all of the above?

I am just starting my first serious MOC in quite a while and I am aiming for something which is "medium" sized, yet looking around it seems that this definition is quite open ended.

How do you classify a models size?

Paul

[piterx]

mainly by its wheels :P

[Junpei]

I think a combination, but I agree if it's a vehicle with wheels (unless it's the landing gear on an airplane), it's mostly tyre size. For a medium sized model, I would suggest you use wheels between 8285 wheels and 81.6 x 38R wheels. Possibly 8070 wheels, but that's pushing it almost to large scale.

[Lipko]

Wheel size and fake engine size.

[allanp]

Probably parts. Moderns sets would have around 500 - 1000 or even 1200 parts for a medium sized set.

[Lakop]

I would expect it to be a combination of physical size, piece count and it's complexity. For example, we could build a big crane with few parts and minimal functions. Then we could build a physically smaller crane with steering, a nice extendable boom arm, engine and a motorised turntable all with IR control. Which is the bigger set?

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[Paul B Technic]

Thanks for the feedback, I think number of pieces and level of functions is the best way to describe a set, I guess no matter how you do it some sets will fall in between.