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Re: Helfire - a microfig scale castle town
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lugnet.castle.org.cw
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:19:32 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Jason Catena writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > Yah, my vision of nanofig scale would be somewhere around 1/1000 or even
> > smaller. Your town looks something like 1/200 or 1/300, which is in
> > the microfig range to me. Actually, it looks like it'd be very close to my
> > Kriegsmacht scale of 1/384. You wanna couple of mecha to battle with the
> > dragon? :-,
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> I've used three scales in setting up my CW realm and environs (progressively
> larger scales):
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> - minifig scale
> - (Shiri's Helfire scale)
> - terrain scale
> one stud=one 32x32 minifig baseplate
> useful for modelling rivers, mountains, etc., and large city layouts
> - realm scale
> one stud=one 32x32 microfig baseplate=1024x1024 microfig studs
> useful for modelling adjacent CW realms (4x4 studs at this scale)
> also useful for modelling continents and seas
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> I've found the terrain scale very helpful in suggesting additonal minifig
> scale models, since the minifigs have some surrounding geographical features
> to build against.
Yeah, it sounds like a great thing! I might try it soon, the 6766 I got will
help a lot... lots of brown and green. My terrain is very hard to show
normally, since I'm planning on having many islands and a small part of a
mainland. (I sorta hinted that by mentioning the Lioness Archipe-lego :o)
> Shiri's scale looks a really good way to get the feel for the shapes of
> buildings. I assume the scale is one minifig wall (6 high) to one brick
> height?
Just about. It's not exact, of course; but that's probably the closest
approximation.
-Shiri
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| (...) I've used three scales in setting up my CW realm and environs (progressively larger scales): - minifig scale - (Shiri's Helfire scale) - terrain scale one stud=one 32x32 minifig baseplate useful for modelling rivers, mountains, etc., and large (...) (27 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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