FG C-47 Scale???!!!

**John Bowden** · #1 03-16-2013, 11:39 PM

Anybody know at what scale FG's C-47 was originally published ??!!

Too dang lazy to print and do the measurements.......... ok there I admitted it.

john

**Duaner** · #2 03-17-2013, 12:56 AM

Do you mean the original '99, or the '03 redraw, or the '07 redraw. I checked with Photoshop, pixels to inches. The '99 model is about 18.6 inches. The C-47 has a wing span of 95 ft. That works out to a scale of about 1/61.3. I could be wrong, but it's what I came up with.

**Jan Kytop** · #3 03-17-2013, 03:07 AM

I make the measurements on the black and white model and for this file it is about 1/63.

**John Bowden** · #4 03-17-2013, 08:56 AM

OK....... man I didn't know there were so many redraws. I'm working with Rob's 2007 version.

**nikischutt** · #5 03-17-2013, 10:40 AM

If I remember correctly, if it's WSAM = 100%, it's approximately 1:60 scale.

**lepercan** · #6 03-17-2013, 11:02 AM

The FG DC-3 I have shows WSAM 100%. WSAM is 1/60.
Check somewhere on the upper left of the first page of any FG model for the WSAM %. That will tell you what % of 1/60 the model is.
Lep

**Sidewinder81777** · #7 03-17-2013, 01:24 PM

Never believe FG's claimed scales, they are mostly off. Sometimes wildly so.

**Wad Cutter** · #8 03-17-2013, 04:05 PM

The scale question was one I raised at FG. Most of my models are 1:28 scale and I wanted the C-47 and the glider for a version of a Invasion Normandy 1944 above my desk. But as it was pointed out to make the C-47 match scale of the other models, the C-47 would be huge. That won't work. .So forget the scale question. Thank you for the help. wc

**Frank Johnson** · #9 03-17-2013, 04:42 PM

I have been building FG since the beginning and I think most come in around 1/60. I built that one and think that it is pretty close to it.

**Zakopious** · #10 03-17-2013, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wad Cutter

The scale question was one I raised at FG. Most of my models are 1:28 scale and I wanted the C-47 and the glider for a version of a Invasion Normandy 1944 above my desk. But as it was pointed out to make the C-47 match scale of the other models, the C-47 would be huge. That won't work. .So forget the scale question. Thank you for the help. wc

C-47 wingspan = 29.41 m

1/28 C-47 wingspan = 1.05 m or 41.35 inches

Suffice it to say, that would be a huge model.