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Re: Units and the like (was Re: Erik leaves home)
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:47:30 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeff Stembel writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Eric Lind writes:
> > > Back on topic: I probably missed it, but how would standard, Earth units
> > > (metric or American/British Standard) translate to the various stud units? A
> > > direct to the proper post would suffice for me.
> >
> > Using the "Star Wars" standard, there are 2.85 studs/meter.
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> Basing it off of minifig height, my estimate comes to very close to that--
> about 2.87 studs = 1 minifig meter (this is based on your average minifig being
> 6 minifig feet tall, and actually being 42mm tall (5.25 studs or 4.375 bricks
> tall)
But remember that medieval minifigs were actually much shorter than modern
ones because they didn't have as good nutrition. Shouldn't we take that
into account? 8)
I think that 1 stud = 1 foot would work pretty well for CW. At least
for us non-metric Americans. (All this technology and we can't figure out
how to convert to metric...)
J
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| (...) lol (...) I'm all for it. That's usually what I use as my estimate, except that it means my minifigs are all 5 feet tall. On a side note, Altavista will spit out a bunch of conversion tools if you ask it for "metric conversion" (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Units and the like (was Re: Erik leaves home)
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| (...) about 2.87 studs = 1 minifig meter (this is based on your average minifig being 6 minifig feet tall, and actually being 42mm tall (5.25 studs or 4.375 bricks tall) So for metric, estimating about 3 studs = 1 meter is not too bad... for (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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