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Re: German Halftrack, Armored Car, etc. etc ...
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:25:50 GMT
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I have only just read lugnet for the first time in aggggggeess.
Shaun, what can I say?..COOL!! I think my tanks have something to shoot at
now! ;)
Regarding scale, I think if anything, the halftrack is slightly too long.
Other than that..perfect. I dont want to sound like I am critising. Just input!
We all need it to acheive perfection! :)
Bout time we saw another tank from someone methinks!
In lugnet.general, Shaun Sullivan writes:
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> "Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
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> > > The rear bed is a little too large, but you would only need to cut
> > > about 1/2 stud off its length to bring it into line, I think.
> > > Anyways, it's great looking, and I just think of it as an extended
> > > bed model for a gun mount ;)
> >
> > Actually, I meant the scale of the vehicle, not only the length. I
> > belive the scale is too large (about 25%?) for minifigs. Just look at
> > the wheels, which reach the minifigs to well above the hips! And the
> > scale of the wheels is what I started out with in the first place, so
> > the rest of the vehicle is pretty much to the scale of them.
> >
> > But of course, a Willys Jeep to minifig scale would be even harder to
> > make and would be much less playable, not seating more than one (or
> > two) figs.
> >
> > But the scale of the other military vehicles you made also seem to be
> > too large. For example the wheels of the 4x4 armoured car are roughly
> > as tall as a fig!
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> You're right ... I think some smaller wheels would be more accurate in terms • of
> size, but I had made the decision to go with the big old' tires 'cause I • thought
> they looked cool. The overall effect is very similar to the original, but the
> size is inflated somewhat.
>
> The Halftrack is also significantly larger than it technically "should be" in
> order to be scaled to minifig height - the ideal example of this is with the
> tracks themselves. If you look at one of the pictures on the brickshelf page
> (sdkfz251_book2.jpg, uploaded this a.m.), you can see German Stormtroopers • next
> to an Sd.kfz 251 ... and the tracks are only about thigh-high. Unfortunately,
> the technic wheels themselves stand about chest-to-neck high on a minifig. As
> with your jeep, the rest of the car is scaled to that, with an emphasis on
> keeping the appearance dimensionally similar to the real-world counterpart.
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> I guess I can reconcile myself to these proportionas by noticing that although
> the height seems wrong, the width of the vehicles as compared to minifigs • seems
> just about dead on - in your jeep, for example, there is just room for two • people
> side by side in the front, and the overall vehicle width is perfect. Same • with
> the halftrack ... it is crowded, but the widthwise dimension seems perfectly
> scaled to the breadth of a minifig. Since we all know that minifigs are not
> proportional to a grown contemporary person, having a construction that is
> minifig-scale in one dimension (any dimension) fits my bill of • requirements ;) *
>
> shaun
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> * it is possible to model something that is proportionate to all dimensions • of a
> minifig - the caveat is, if the object is modelled after something in • the "real
> world", it will not be dimensionally self-similar to its real-world • counterpart.
> That is, a "truly" mini-fig scale halftrack would look short and squat, being
> about the same width, a bit shorter in length, and much shorter in height.
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