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In lugnet.build, Steve Lane wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jumpei Mitsui wrote:
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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).
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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
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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 (47m), in which case there’ll be 1 plate difference!
I use a scale just between the two, primarily because the gauge of 9V railway
track is 37.66mm and I build models of trains of real gauge 4’8.5” (1435.1mm),
giving a scale of 1:38.1067. (The trains are not 8-wide for British prototypes,
but a little larger, and US boxcars would be a little over 10-wide).
In these scales, a 6ft person would be 48mm tall, so a 42mm minifig would be
5’3”, or a bit taller with neck attachments. As long as your adults average
between 5ft and 6ft no-one will worry.
That’s 3 opinions!
Mark
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