Scales of Justice - For the Average Diorama Builder

[suchomimus]

What say we create a list of scales corresponding to the figures we have? Then we could use it a reference sheet! 

This spreadsheet I made could be tested out for editing.

Whatcha think?

[Brachiosaurus]

Awesome start

[Manatee]

I added the Carnegie Tylosaurus and Schleich Edmontonia.

[Arul]

Same thread like i started about months ago federeptile reply it, he said stegosaurus and allosaurus from papo  and another member, pachyrhinosaurus said tylosaurus safari ltd with bull shark from safari ltd >  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=419.msg76056;topicseen#new

[DC]

Good idea.  I think we are good on the large Carnegie but how about something for the feather dinosaur toob.  We are all short of the small stuff for dioramas and I am always looking for something compatible in the scale. 

thanks

[Halichoeres]

Really good idea. For the purposes of dioramas a lot of the Kaiyodo figures work well too. Mine seem to range from approximately life size (Paleozoic arthropods) to ~1:200 scale (sauropods, Shantungosaurus).

[Halichoeres]

Bump. Added a few things.

[CityRaptor]

The Jurassic World blind bags add a nice little Dimorphodon for, fittingly enough, Jurassic Dioramas.

[Halichoeres]

The Jurassic World blind bags add a nice little Dimorphodon for, fittingly enough, Jurassic Dioramas.

Eyeballing it, I would guess it's around 1:15 scale, but I have only seen photos. Do you have one in hand that you could use to confirm?

[CityRaptor]

Sadly not. They are not out in Germany yet ( if they appear at all ) and I'm not gonna pay those scalper prices on ebay and shipping costs to get it.

[Dinoguy2]

This is a great resource! I went through and added a bunch from my collection, but I wanted to mention that I also changed/updated some existing info. Many model length entries seem to have been added as the "catalog length"  rather than the length of the "specimen". For example, the 1996 Carnegie Allosaurus is actually 28.5cm long when measured along the curvature of the neck, back, and tail. This is important to remember because published dinosaur length estimates almost never take nay kind of pose, even neural pose, into account. Instead, they just add up all the vertebrae and skull length as if laid out in a straight line.

The other thing is that I've been entering these based on MAXIMUM known size of the actual animal. This can result in a somewhat small scale for some models, but I figure that can be useful itself since it provides a range of use for diorama makers. For example, the Battat Gallimimus is exactly 1:40 when scaled based on a 6m individual... but 8m individuals are also known. Therefore I entered it in as a tiny 1:60, in case anybody is working in small scales like that, but obviously if you're making a 1:40 diorama anything 1:40 and above would work since animals come in a wide range of sizes, even within the same species.