Modular Real Life Measuring Unit

[seaboard92]

Hey guys, I'm a very new member. I have a quick question. I'm designing a model of the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall on Nov 9, 1989 the fall of the wall. I want to make my model in the scale of my other modular buildings. Does anyone know what the scale I should be looking at. It'll be a very large project that I'm starting. I believe I will start with Check Point Charlie as that is far less detailed. Basically I'm asking what real world measurements are in modular scale. Did I make sense? Thanks in advance.

One foot in our world equals how many bricks?

[tkatt]

The Modular Standard is about 9 bricks per story. If you figure a story of a real world building to be about 10' tall then a foot is about 0.9 bricks.

Using this unit converter by Sariel 0.9 bricks to a foot is 1:35 scale. At 1:35 scale the Brandenberg Gate would be 77 bricks tall and 234 studs wide.

My math is rusty so I could be way off.

[ER0L]

Interesting project, sounds like you'll be occupied with it for the next few years ...

Scale is a complex matter, however, my idea is that larger objects may have a smaller scale than smaller objects in the very same layout - even pro modelmakers do that.

This means that a very large structure like the Brandenburg Gate could be built in a scale of about 1/60 in a Lego Town surrounding - and will be quite impressive nonetheless (width would be about 1 meter) plus you wouldn't run out of bricks every five minutes. The best way to test that might be LDD.