That's a great question! I too have wondered what the true scale weight would be for the various scales.

I have a 1/8 scale King Tiger. The original KT weighed about 70 tons (140,000 lbs.) If we were to take the scale value of 1/8 of 140,000 lbs (or, 140,000/8), we would get 17,500 lbs.

For a 1/16th scale KT, 140,000 lbs divided by 16 = 8,750 lbs).

I don't think this kind of conversion is valid. Common sense would suggest that your 1/16th scale KT should weigh in excess of a large, 4-ton truck. Kind of like an elephant on roller skates.

Does anyone have the proper conversion for weight-to-scale?

Cheers....