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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?
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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 staying close to 1:35 for my new ship, as I do for most of my
.military construction.
I’m not however certain that any dimensions were significantly reduced on ships
the Japanese produced before WWII to account for the size of the crews, in the
way it was done for tanks and later aircraft.
best
LFB
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