What you need
- The assembled model, on the floor or a table
- Good light
Steps
- Open Bench and tap Tape measure. Or, on the aircraft's page, tap Measure wingspan with camera.
- Under Size, choose what to measure, such as Wingspan.
- Stand about an arm's length from one wingtip. Move the iPhone slowly until the dot turns yellow.
- Aim the dot just inside the tip, on the model itself, and tap Set start.
- Move to the other tip, aim just inside it, and tap Set end.
- Measure two or three times. Maiden averages the readings.
- Tap the Save button to store the average on the aircraft.
Good to know
- Plain or shiny surfaces are hard to track. A strip of masking tape at each end helps.
- If the readings are far apart, a point probably landed on the floor behind the model. Measure again.
- To remove a reading, tap the remove button next to it.
- On a model with a tail, it can also measure the wing-to-stab distance.
If it doesn't work
- Camera access is off
- Tap Open Settings and turn on Camera for Maiden.
- Camera measuring isn't available
- This iPhone can't track its position. Measure the wing from a photo instead.