Ztrains Scratchbuilder’s Calculator

Here’s a tool that can help you establish and maintain scale accuracy when scratchbuilding your next Z scale building, piece of rolling stock or pine tree. To show you how this calculator works, let’s say you wanted to know how large a 75′ prototypical tree would be in Z scale.

Step 1:
At the top of the calculator, in the “From” column, click on the 1:1 (or “Actual”) button. In the next column over to the right, the “To” column, click on the 1:220 (or Z) button.

Step 2:
In the “Input Measurements” area, enter 75 in the “feet” box.

Step 3:
In the “Result Options” area, click on the button next to the “Results in U.S”. option, then just click on the “Calculate” button.

You now know a 75′ tall prototype tree is 4.091″ in Z scale!

U.S. & Metric This calculator also functions as a U.S. to Metric, and Metric to U.S. conversion calculator. I hope you use and enjoy the Ztrains Scratchbuilder’s Calculator.

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