Question. . .

[DARKWIND]

How long would a 1/60 scale carrier deck be, and how tall would the super structure need to be?

Need MW support with my new dream project. . .

Any ideas and suggestions would be great! !

Gotta place I can make it happen and free time.

Edited November 18, 2004 by DARKWIND

[Greyryder]

Going with a full size U.S. style nuclear carrier, the 1/60 scale one would end up being around 20 feet long. (going off of a 1200" long deck, in case I'm totally wrong about the size of the real ones) Not sure how tall the superstructure would end up being.

[Godzilla]

How long would a 1/60 scale carrier deck be, and how tall would the super structure need to be?

Need MW support with my new dream project. . .

Any ideas and suggestions would be great! !

Gotta place I can make it happen and free time.

He sounds like me but I want the 1/48 scale.

[DARKWIND]

You know I thought about that too but I just want keep my 1/48's in a nice case. . .

The 1/60's can go in the garage in a ( my hands only ) diorama to make space in my room. . .

My overall toy collection is getting huge

First things first, the carrier. . .

Then the 1/48 Air/Space museum. . .

Edited November 18, 2004 by DARKWIND

[ewilen]

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/nimitz/ gives the Nimitz class a length of about 333 m

I'd guess that for any modern carrier, you can use the length overall as the flight deck length (or very close to it), so we can also find the lenght of the flight decks of a few Macross-universe carriers:

Prometheus: 512 m

Daedalus: 488 m

Asuka II: 250 m

Converting all these to English units and scaling to 1/60 gives the following:

Nimitz: 18' 3"

Prometheus: 28'

Daedalus: 26' 8" (Daedalus flight deck is a little weird, so for your purposes it may be a little shorter than this)

Asuka II: 13' 8"

I'm having a little difficulty locating data for the height of a carrier's "island" superstructure. If you can find it in meters, then apply this formula to get the height of a 1/60 model in inches:

(H * 100) / (152.4)

If you find the height in feet, then simply divide by 5 to get the height of a 1/60 model in inches. E.g. if the height is 100 feet, the scale height will be 20 inches.

[F-ZeroOne]

Or you can use this even more straightforward formula:

It will be BIG.

[DARKWIND]

Cool!!

Now I just need to find a few 1/60 deck crews and and weapons.

Im leaning more towards the Asuka II. .

[JB0]

How long would a 1/60 scale carrier deck be, and how tall would the super structure need to be?

Need MW support with my new dream project. . .

Given up on the 1:1 VF-1J?

...

Wait, that was my dream.

[ewilen]

Cool!!

Now I just need to find a few 1/60 deck crews and and weapons.

Im leaning more towards the Asuka II. .

It's very hard to find 1/60 scale anything. The closest scale that's popular among model aircraft builders is 1/72. You can probably get away with this.

"S" scale in model trains is 1/64 scale, but I don't know how common it is to find accessories in this scale. Apparently Matchbox cars are also 1/64 scale so maybe someone out there (like Matchbox!) has made figures or utility vehicles to this scale.

http://www.thortrains.net/scale1.htm

http://www.nmra.org/beginner/scale.html

http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/rms_tips/rmsfaq.3.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=matchbox+scale

30mm wargame miniatures are also close to 1/60. (With wargame miniatures, 30mm is the height of a typical person, so if 5'10" is about average then 30mm/1.8m = 30mm/1800mm = 1/60. If you use 25mm miniatures the people are a little smaller, so they're either shorter individuals at 1/60 scale or average sized at 1/72 scale. Mixing scales is probably okay as long as you don't put them too close to each other.

Looking forward to seeing some WiP and final pictures!