"Scaling down from 28mm to 15mm for buildings" Topic

I am in the process of scaling down some PDF buildings I made, and was wondering what your thoughts are on scale.

The building in question is this: TMP link

If something is 28mm, then technically I think a reduction of 53/54% is required. Calculation: (100/28)*15 = 53.57

However if it was 25mm, then a nice round 60% reduction.

My buildings are based around 5mm foam board, so doing 60% would be FAR easier as it would work on 3mm foam board. The only problem is, when I made the building for 28mm, it was slightly scaled up to make figures look right inside it. So if I scale it to 60%, the buildings would be slightly larger than they technically should be (not that much, but I know some people like to be super accurate!)

So my question is, is 60% ok, or should I go for something more like 53/54% (keeping in mind 2.5mm board isn't easy to find) would this be a major problem?

Building sizes tend to be pretty approximate anyway. Go with the 60% reduction.

15mm is really easy to scale for if you have the original scale. As it is 1:100 you need to print at the same % as the original scale – 1:56 is 56%, 1:87 is 87%, 1:72 is 72%.

60% is the best bet by far. Also bases for 15mm tend to be proportioanlly large than for 28mm so a proportionally slightly larger building would likely be better too. I'm with Bumsore (so to speak…)

Easier is better, buildings are rarely to scale in any game. If they are true to scale sometimes they look too big and take up too much room, so what ever is easier to produce and get on the table go with that. All that math gave me a head ache!

I usually scale stuff for 28mm at anywhere from 50-60% depending how chunky it looks.
The beauty of printouts is that if you make a mistake, you can easily make adjustments and print off some more!!

Print 2 pages onto one sheet. It's usually a standard option, and gives a reasonable result.

We seem to have two contrary arguments that appear all the time – one I'll call 'scale isn't what it used to be' and the other is 'ground scale is incompatible with figure scale so I'll do what looks right'.

For the former group (who usually end up including railway modellers in their forum threads) the maths of:

1/X * X/100 = 1/100

Gives a really simple way to accurately scale your buildings. Something I have done when printing out Scalescene buildings.

For the others, if you haven't found a flavour that suits your tastes, I suggest going slightly small. There has been a number of threads along the idea of 20mm buildings for 25mm, 15mm buildings for 20mm and N Gauge buildings for 15mm…

But, and this is the beauty of our hobby, it is all up to you!

Be sure to look at the doors and window height, compared to the models.

When making my stuff I always have the doors a bit bigger than scale says they should to make it look right.

but that might just be me :)

Lee

Cheers for the input guys. It's given me a decent amount to think about! :)