"M113 1/2 Lynx - Little and large" Topic

This shows some of the pitfalls when simply scaling up. This from 1/144 to 1/72

If you look carefully the tracks are too big on the 1/72 model. The turret is not quite scaled up as the 1/144 turret is artificially a big big for handling reasons, the advantage if you are sponsoring the model. The gun on the 1/144 was a bit big so I got the correct sized gun on the 1/72 STL (its corrected for the STL that will be available form Shipyards) and used the scale turret, not my enlarged one. Even so the gun is way to big on the 1/72 model.. However as 1/72 is not really my scale I was not going to pay for a rescale effort, direct scale is good enough for me. I'm a wargamer not a modeler so its good enough as a marker.

It's serviceable. I generally don't need much more than that, either.

Cut off turret, drill hole, glue in appropriate rod.

It's not rocket science.

You could also try just trimming it down with a knife first, to save even that minor effort.

Using opposable thumbs and being a modeller are two different things.

The H Man _ to be honest I think it would look worse. The whole thing is "out of scale" in fine detail, refining one item would make it look worse, highlighting many other failures. The MG would now be "unrealistically Bulky" with a "realistic barrel" not a good look for me and additional work I cannot be bothered to do. Pairing down the barrel is impractical with 3D printed barrels in any sensible (quick) timescales.

It would be good to see a pic of the two with a more accurate 1/72 version.

Without reference, they don't look too bad.

The H Man Can't help there only have the scaled up version as That is all I have available at that scale.

As an example a Track at 1/144 is 1mm thick, way too big for scale. At 1/72 the same track is 2mm model scale, where it should still be 1mm thick and that (1mm thick) is probably a bit much even at 1/72, it implies a 72mm thick track in the real world way thicker then the real thing. Same with the gun a 7.62mm barrel should be about 15mm in the real world, so about 0.1mm at 1/144 and 0.2mm at 1/72 instead my gun is 2mm in diameter and for practical reasons can't be less than 1mm. I have had 1/72 tanks with really realistic 7.62mm barrels but they did not stand the rigors of play, though they wer proably close to real scale.