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Beginners Comparative sizes of large-scale figures

Comparative sizes of large-scale figures

By Marc Horovitz | May 25, 2020

| Last updated on February 17, 2023

Get a sense of how large your figure should be

five figures in different sizes — Marc Horovitz and Joe Crea photo

size_of_figures — This graphic shows the variance in sizes in figures from 1:20.3 down to 1:32. Marc Horovitz photo

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