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Re: Scale (Was: New MOC: A-Wing Fighter)
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:41:10 GMT
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A. Mark Wilburn at mwilburn@magnetargames.com wrote:
> Muffin Head, believe it or not, if you consider 1 stud = 1 ft as minifig
> scale, then this is minifig scale (the 'official' length of 9.6 m would
> become 31.5 studs, or 32 as he's done here). Yeah, I know Mark, you eyeball
> what you think looks good;
I do this mainly because of the fact that minifigs have no scale. If you
consider 1 stud = 1 foot, then your minifigs are only about 5 feet tall,
which is well under average height for a human. But if you decide that a
minifig is 6 feet tall, then they end up being about 2.5 feet wide, which is
a pretty rotund person. :^)
Sometimes I scale things simply from of a lack of parts. My Skipray
Blastboat was scaled small because I just don't have enough parts to build
one to scale. A "realistically" scaled Skipray would have been 2.5-3 feet
long.
> I myself used to scale it off official measurements as much as I could, but
> found certain ships looked wrong'officially' scaled (e.g. BattleStar Galactica
> Viper is officially 9m long... but it doesn't LOOK shorter than an A-Wing!? And
> the official length of a Snow Speeder is 5.3 m, just over half the length of
> the A-Wing ... but to me, it looks like it should be about the size of an
> A-Wing! Yeah, I gave up)
You also have to figure that the "official" measurements in books like the
Essential Guide are often just made up numbers. Then there are problems like
the controversial Millennium Falcon scale issues.
I try just to build stuff that "feels" right. It works for me. :^)
~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
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Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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| In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes: ... (...) ... Right, so now I try to scale based on other things (e.g a sitting minifig, is around 1/35th scale but with super short legs... but if he's to be sitting, I scale it to his sitting height). And (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Muffin Head, believe it or not, if you consider 1 stud = 1 ft as minifig scale, then this is minifig scale (the 'official' length of 9.6 m would become 31.5 studs, or 32 as he's done here). Yeah, I know Mark, you eyeball what you think looks (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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