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Subject:	Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military
Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:00:05 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jumpei Mitsui wrote:

This is my biggest challenge and still under construction.

1/40 Battleship YAMATO

It’s minifig scale, and it will come to 6.5m (21ft).

Is 1:40 minifig scale?

I’d like to ellicit a wide number of opnions because I’m just about to start building a (much smaller) minifig scale model.

I assumed a minifig to be 6ft tall, giving me a ratio of 1 to 46 (rounded).

The japanese are a lot smaller, so to them perhaps minifig scale is 40:1.

Has their ever been an agreed standard for Minifig scale? or is their just an acceptable range?

LMKWYT

Steve

Message has 4 Replies:

		Re: Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
(...) Heh, I've done some checking... (URL) the answer is "whatever you think is right". Minifigs are just built very un-humanly. Very thick front-to-back, very wide, or very short. Or all three. In general, people usually derive scale by minifig (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military)

		Re: Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
(...) If you use 1 inch = 1 meter, a minifig is about 4 1/2 feet tall, a good size to relate to kids, I think. Then use four studs = one "inch", or one meter. It's not really accurate, but it sure is easy! Tim (Smith) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)

		Re: Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
(...) I personally advocate 1 stud to the foot, which is about 1:38. If the stud size is exactly 8mm then it's 1:38.1. If a stud size is 5/16" then it's 1:38.4. There's little difference between the two, unless you build something 14630 plates high (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military, FTX)

		Re: Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
(...) I always accord minifigs 1:35 scale, possibly 1:32, because those are the closest "standard military" scales. But also, I go by the average of the minifigs' dimensions, which sort of implies they are 5' tall and very, very broad. So I am (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military, FTX)

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		Project YAMATO
(...) Thank you for your introduction of my project, Bruce. This is my biggest challenge and still under construction. 1/40 Battleship YAMATO It's minifig scale, and it will come to 6.5m (21ft). (URL) It has passed 2 years since I began to build, (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!

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