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Ahh, the ageless question :)
Dave Eaton and I, in the course of our AT-AT Marathon (I'm still recovering ...)
e-mailed each other regularly on issues about scale. For the most part, I went by
the minifig's height, and said that it was equal to 1.8 meters (sans helmet - an
average american male height - which of course makes me question my entire
cultural basis for having made this assumption, but we'll save that lashing for
another post ...). From the 1.8 meter figure, I scaled constructions. Though,
realistically, there do come times when you have to just hold the minifig next to
the vehicle/building/whatever, and say "does that *look* right??" If it does,
you're all set!
One thing I've found is that a great many "minifig-scale" objects look very good
when they are not constrained to even-stud widths, which is our natural tendency.
A couple of my recent models have been 7 studs wide, and look to be scaled
appropriately. They're usually not as straightforward to build, but for some
reason I've found that they look great in some cases ... beyond that, the 1x2
tiles with the center stud can give even finer definition with half-stud
increments in width.
wow, what a grammatical mess.
shaun
Carl Greatrix wrote:
> 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!!
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