Conversion of JSC-HMS Lion 1:250 to 1:400 possible?

[carlolomjo]

Hey just want to ask the experts if I may be able to convert my JSC261-HMS Lion kit from 1:250 to 1:400 by scanning and resizing the images then printing it? Will it be possible to build the kit if it were shrunk to nearly 50% in size for that scale?

Thanks.

 

[eibwarrior]

The answer is most definitely.

I did the opposite on my 1/100 Arizona that is dispayed in this forum. It was designed to 1/250 so I increased the print out to 250% zoom. Everything fit like a glove, and the print clarity was surprisingly good at the upscale.

I can only imagine going down will be easier, but you might lose some clarity of printed details...

Just my two cents.

BTW, you'll want to use a 62.5% zoom reduction to get that 1/400 scale precise.

 

[carlolomjo]

Thanks. I'm just a little worried coz I'm not really an experienced modeler and I might have trouble assembling a kit shrunk to 62.5% and I'm a little fuzzt on this JSC hull design coz I'm used to their egg box method.

 

[Longshaor]

One piece of advice, don't use the reduction feature on a photocopier. Something involving the prisms in copiers causes the image to be distorted in one axis or the other. Hope this helps!

 

[carlolomjo]

Thanks. What I did was I scanned all the pages of the parts and used Adobe Photoshop to resize the image using the 1:400 Prinz Eugen(which is just 3 ft. shorter than Lion) for reference and printed it. Some parts really look small but I think I can manage with enough patience.