Scale 1 to 10 converter

Or do you want a lot of hills, valleys, gullies and streams? Will your layout be round, curved, rectangle or maybe a different shape altogether? Whatever you decide is fine as long as you are prepared to do the work to make sure your scenery is to scale.

A good rule of thumb is to make your layout on multi-levels and this will give you a perspective of size and distance. A mountain is a good way to make your layout multi-level and where you place your trees and bushes can affect the perspective. Taller trees toward the front of your layout will make it appear that the mountains or hills at the back are farther away.

In order for this illusion to take place your scenery must be sized right for your HO trains. Make sure your trees are a realistic size in respect to your model trains. Use your engine as a guide always having it available to measure against. Make sure the scene you create matches the cars you are using. Do you want bridges and roads in your scene? Make sure the cars are in proportion to any HO scale scenery you construct. You can easily carve a mountain side that the train might climb up around from foam board but it takes practice, persistence and patience.

You will want to measure where your buildings and roads will go before you draw or attach anything to your layout baseboard. Then draw your roads and rivers or creeks onto the board. If you have roads going to, from or around model buildings, be sure you place the buildings where you want them first and then measure where the roads will go. If you've found this free tool remotely useful, please consider donating a few cents to go towards a beer.

Because beer is good. Check out our new Online Scale conversion tool. Convert from any scale in any unit of measurement to any other scale in any other unit. Convert from scale to actual real size. Enter the dimensions of the actual object or measurements of the scaled object if you are planning on converting a scale to an actual size 4. Select the unit of measurement from the drop-down list 5. Click on the "Convert" button to generate the results. Scale Factor 1 : Actual Real Size mm millimeter cm centimeter m meter km kilometer in inch ft feet yd yards mi mile.

Supporting Information A scale factor is the number that is used as the multiplier when scaling the size of an object. Currently 4. You can do this by dividing both the numerator and the denominator by the numerator. Our fraction simplifier can help with this step too, if needed. Finally, rewrite the fraction as a ratio by replacing the fraction bar with a colon.

Since the drawing is scaled down, then the scale factor should be reduced to a fraction with a denominator of 1. Use our ratio calculator to reduce a ratio. You can also reduce a ratio by dividing both the numerator and the denominator by the numerator.