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In lugnet.build, Carl Greatrix writes:
> Ok, I have not managed to read many posts in the last 4 weeks or so(I hold my
> head in shame) due to work comitments.I have recently purchased a Panther
> radio controlled model tank, 1.25th scale. As a teenager I used to have 1.35th
> scale tanks etc. Now, I always took it as Lego minifigs where comparible
> between 1/35 and 1/25, yet now when I take a 1/25 scale German helmet to a
> minifig it is still too small!! Yet the 1/25 tank matches the scale of my most
> recent ww2 street and Lego Russian tank perfectly!! (pics not yet posted).so,
> did Lego purposely design the minifigs as midget dwarfs or what?? I would say
> they must be more around 1/20 -1/15 scale yet this would dwarf them to
> comparible vehicles of this scale? I think this is relative to all minifig
> trains, trucks and cars, I dont know exactly what my point is here other than
> the question, has anybody actually agreed on a scale ?(noticing the 6-8 stud
> wide train debate), as sometimes I thought my models may be too big in scale
> yet now they must be too small!!
(A quick peek behind the scenes at TLC design department... "OMG, he's figured
it out! Quick let's leave work early before someone notices this post and we
actually have to create something non-juniorized to the correct scale...")
I've just come to the same conclusion. (warning: blasphamess statements
follow.) Lego Train, will never to scale. Not now, not ever. Not 6 wide, not 8
wide. 8 wide would probably be closer, but not quite make it.
I think that in a fantasy realm frame of referance, all minifigs are halfling
size. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna run with this. I'm gonna embrace the fact
that they are really totally out of "human" perspective. My next gaming world
is going to be inhabited completely by halflings, (hobbits for those more
Tolkenian). They wont have any class restrictions, (if we were talking AD&D
RPG rules here, we'd have to throw out the books). I'm going to give up my
efforts of trying to make them conform to the "real" world and make a world
that conforms more to their weird size.
Yep, they are odd, they are vertically challenged, but they can't help the way
that they are.
Rich
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