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Anyone remember the dealer that had all the wonderful scale rulers for kit building in the Orange Hall.  He was against the back of the front wall kind of behind the back wall of the snack bar?  Should have bought one while I was there now I cant remember who it was.

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I would have LOVED to buy one of the rulers since I do a fair amount of 1:48 modeling.

 

I didn't buy one though.  Why?  Because none of them are down to the 1" scale (1/48 real inch).  I have rulers, not scale rulers but rather "regular" rulers, where the first inch has finer gradations.  For instance, I have a ruler where the first inch has markings at the 1/32" spacing.  The rest of the ruler is limited to the normal 1/16" spacing.  But that first inch comes in awfully handy at times.  When you're building models you have to do better than using a ruler that has as its smallest measurement what scales to 6", like the ones at York.

 

I talked to the table owner and expressed my issue.  He didn't really seem to care though.

 

Too bad.

 

- walt

Originally Posted by walt rapp:

I would have LOVED to buy one of the rulers since I do a fair amount of 1:48 modeling.

 

I didn't buy one though.  Why?  Because none of them are down to the 1" scale (1/48 real inch).  I have rulers, not scale rulers but rather "regular" rulers, where the first inch has finer gradations.  For instance, I have a ruler where the first inch has markings at the 1/32" spacing.  The rest of the ruler is limited to the normal 1/16" spacing.  But that first inch comes in awfully handy at times.  When you're building models you have to do better than using a ruler that has as its smallest measurement what scales to 6", like the ones at York.

 

I talked to the table owner and expressed my issue.  He didn't really seem to care though.

 

Too bad.

 

- walt


WALT,

  If you are looking for precision here is what you need.

Starret Tools are the best these 6 inch rulers go down to 1/64th of an inch.

 

http://www.starrett.com/metrol...cision-Rules/C310K-6

Originally Posted by John Hutt:

Twelve of these lines jammed  into a scale foot (0.25") would be very close and it is more than likely that the ink will "bleed" into one blob.

 
 
 I don't want to confuse anyone by using technical terms such as "blobs", however, if you could get it to bleed into 12 blobs, the result would be an architctural ruler as suggested by the previous poster.
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