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I have a papercraft pattern of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter that says it's 1:33 scale, but I want to make it 1:6 scale for my dolls. Does anyone know how I can convert it and scale it up? I know it will be huge, but that's what I need for it to be 'life-size' for my dolls. I tried using Google, but I don't understand the calculators and I'm horrible at math. I have the .pdf file if anyone needs it. Thanks so much~

Go about it the opposite way, take the dimensions of the original and scale them down. It's 64 feet 10 inches, divide that by 6 feet. That's going to make it just over 10 feet long to be in scale if I did my math correctly.

I usually scale things down. To get a 1/12 pattern from 1/3; I divide it by 4 or shrink it to 25%. To get a 1/6 pattern from a 1/33 I would multiply by 5 or make it 500% bigger.

Thanks guys! Wow DollyKim, it's going to be even bigger than I thought! I saw some other people make 1/6 Blackhawks, and they said they were about 7 or 8 feet long. But I think you're right, dividing the length of a real one by 6 would make it over 10 feet long!

Richila, thanks for doing the math for me, I had no clue how to figure out what size to make the papercraft pattern. Did you divide 33 by 6? I had no idea how to even do that, so thank you so much. The calculator is saying 5.5, but I need to make it 500% bigger to make it exactly 1/6 from 1/33? I just want to make sure since I have no clue and want to make it the perfect size for my dolls.

There's also this. He even walks you through how to convert scale measurements to another scale. this is how I get my prop dimensions in 1/6th most of the time. Hope it helps!

~TurkishDelight~ wrote:Thanks guys! Wow DollyKim, it's going to be even bigger than I thought! I saw some other people make 1/6 Blackhawks, and they said they were about 7 or 8 feet long. But I think you're right, dividing the length of a real one by 6 would make it over 10 feet long!

Richila, thanks for doing the math for me, I had no clue how to figure out what size to make the papercraft pattern. Did you divide 33 by 6? I had no idea how to even do that, so thank you so much. The calculator is saying 5.5, but I need to make it 500% bigger to make it exactly 1/6 from 1/33? I just want to make sure since I have no clue and want to make it the perfect size for my dolls.

I did an estimate from 30, but if the calculator says 5.5 then you need 550%.

Thank you Richila! I couldn't do it without you! <3

ShadowKat, thanks for the link. That's a really good thing to know how to use. It's good it has a tutorial, I'll need to try my best to concentrate and figure it out so I can make cool props for my dolls too.

Hmm, I have a question about scaling and editing patterns. If I open the .pdf pattern as images on a photo editing program (I have GIMP), will they be the same size they were on the .pdf? I want to edit the colors off the pattern and leave only the outlines so I can print it without wasting a ton of ink. But I want the images to be the exact same size they were on the .pdf so I can scale them 550% and have them still all be accurate sizes to each other and 1/6.