Scale Issues (1 Viewer)

[Peter Reuss]

Today I received a wonderful package from my cousin filled with photos of my grandpa, 2nd Lt. Charles Henry Dodd, KIA in France, 1944 and buried in Epinal.

2nd Lt Dodd was SHORT. In his wedding photo (which I now have) he looks the same height as my grandma...but apparently her dress is hiding the box he's standing on. In another photo their are the same height, but if you look closely you can see that she has her knees bent to crouch down.

Included was this photo that must have been taken shortly before he deployed and must be the officers he served with. Note the problem of scale. The two guys on the ends are WAY out of proportion. If a toy soldier manufacturer did that folks would have a fit. Grandpa is the one on the left. The dude on the right is even shorter!

I guess people come in all shapes and sizes!

 

[jazzeum]

They do but that in no way should trivialize the question of scale. I can see you've been visiting other parts.

 

[trooper]

Mr Reuss is quite right, people are all different. With regard to figures the weapon should determine the scale. A ghurkha standing next to a guardsman should be much shorter but if the rifles are the same length then that is correct. weapons are factory produced to a set pattern, people are not. Trooper

 

[Martin Tabony]

Also please notice that although the officers are of varying heighst, their heads hardly differ in size. This is why the human head is used as a point of measurement. For example the ancient Greeks believed that the ideal (gods etc.) should measure 8 x heads in height.

Martin