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WHATS IN A SCALE?
Notes:
1:48 is the "classic" scale
used for most of the English dockyard models made during the 17th and 18th centuries, but
results in a large model relative to the size of most people's houses today.
The figure height for a sailor was
taken as 5 ft. 8 inches because the best available information is that sailors in the age
of sail were, on average, shorter than the average man is today.
HO scale figures are about 10 %
taller than figures for 1:96 models would be, so care should be taken before using them
interchangeably. It is true that there is more than 10 % variation in the height of living
men, but it would be best to choose a short HO figure if you plan to adapt it to your 1:96
ship model.
This table is a variation of a larger
table that was in the Broadside, the newsletter of the USS Constitution Model Shipwright
Guild in July, 1997.
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