ORIGINAL: BiggTony
Ahh...I get it. <div>
</div><div>Well, I get it for the most part. lol</div><div>
</div><div>I'm still not sure why density and material is not a consideration. We're talking steel over plastic. Certainly, if I were to build a tank to match a true to life 1/1 tank out of feathers...it would not equate to 25 tons of feathers, or is that the case? </div>
If a 1:1 tank was made of feathers (a "feather tank"), it wouldn't weigh anywhere near 25 tons. So your 1/16 feather tank should be the weight of the real 1:1 feather tank divided by 4096 as explained above, apparently.
How about a Maus tank.. What would its scale weight be in 1/16th? According to the 16x16x16 formula the 188 ton (414,540 lbs) Maus would weigh in at 101.2 lbs at 1/16 size. Can you imagine picking up and carrying your 101 lb mouse around? Or if it ran over your foot! Ouch! lol The bridges at the DAK field would collapse under the weight of this Maus, in a scale manner like the real thing..
A 1/16 Tiger should weight 30.1 lbs. KT would be 36.6 lbs.
A 1/6th scale Maus would weight 1,919 lbs! Then you could kill someone with your mouse by running them over with it. At 1/4 scale the mouse would be 6,477 lbs and would flatten Hatakashi's King Tiger like a pancake. Just destroy it without even having to fire a shot.
This thread is fun, I am glad "diabolic-mind" started it.