Free Download: Scale guide for building models

This guide by Julieta La Valle will help you understand the main scales used in the construction of models for architectural projects

When entering the world of model making, one of the first elements that we have to take into account is the concept of scale: the size, relative to the real world, that we will give to each of the furniture and other elements that we want to build. For this reason, sculptor, filmmaker and art director Julieta La Valle (@julietalavalle) shares a scale guide with Domestika.

In it you will find very useful information: first, a graphic explanation of the usual scale measurement formula (for example, 1: 1, 1:10, 1:20 ...), which is nothing other than the size that would correspond to the object in the real world and its size transported to the model (for example, 1:10 means 1 meter in the real world and 10 centimeters in the model).

You will also find a scale (several rules indicating different scales, so that you understand how the different sizes are related to each other, with respect to the human body) and a compendium with the most common scales in model ironworks, from the G, the largest, to the T , a tiny scale 1: 450.

With this scale guide by Julieta La Valle, you will begin to better understand how measurements work in miniature model construction projects, so that your pieces are coherent with each other and the whole transmits a more organic and natural feeling.

Click the link below to download the .pdf file with the scale guide for building models. The file will be in your Downloads folder.

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If you want to learn more, sign up for the course Techniques to Create Scale Models, where Julieta la Valle will teach you to create a miniature universe from the general structure to the last detail.

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