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16 December 2010 at 19:16 #29209
Mike Pendlebury
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Scale is calculated as follows:

512 ft x 12 = 6144 inches

6144 divided by 42 (length of model) = 146.285

so scale is 1/146.285. (If looking for crew figures that’s just about railway modellers N gauge!)
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