Scales: No lies, just standardize please ! (1 Viewer)

[theBaron]

Spitfrnd, thanks for the link to the Toy Soldiers Club! I had never heard of them, and I've added their home page to my Toy Soldiers Favorites list.

As to the discussion of scale, I feel your pain (wow-I can't believe I quoted that fat....). One thing that used to bug me, well, still does, with Stadden's old castings of Frederick the Great, Seydlitz and Ziethen was that Frederick was 5' 9", Seydlitz was over 6', and Ziethen was around 5' 2". But all three of the Stadden castings are the same size. And they all look like linebackers, too. Ziethen was a wiry little guy, Sedlitz was tall but well-built, not stocky, and Frederick became a little stooped as he got older.

Same goes for a figure of Washington. He should be a head taller than most of the figures around him, as he was in his own day (and 2 heads taller than John Adams, who was also a little guy).

Of course, by mixing and matching figures of the same scale designation, from different manufacturers, we can make displays that look more realistic, at least as far as human height goes.

Prosit!
Brad

 

[Spitfrnd]

...Of course, by mixing and matching figures of the same scale designation, from different manufacturers, we can make displays that look more realistic, at least as far as human height goes.

Prosit!
Brad

Thanks Brad. I revisited this thread after recently looking at some of the size comparisons provided for some of the lines I am considering and I wanted to acknowledge that very good point. There is easily more than a 20% variation in height and even more in bulk between humans and horses so a little variation in scale between the various manufactuers should be tolerable so long as the proportions do not appear to much out of sync. Of course that is at the (near) extremes for military purposes so a better range might be 10-15%. Putting this in figure context at a "standard" 54mm would mean something like:
10%: 51.3 - 56.7mm
12.5%: 50.6 - 57.4mm
15%: 50mm - 58mm
20%: 48.6 - 59.4
So a variation in height of 5-10mm would seem to be well within the real world variations.

In practice, it does not seem to be as simple. As one example, my Conte Greek / Persians (58-60mm) just do not look right with the EoI Greek Persians (51-53mm) even though the variation is around the 12.5% range. I am sure many have other examples which would be interesting to explore.