Toy Soldier Size Reference Chart (1 Viewer)

[katana]

The attached charts may be useful as a visual reference to the comparative size of Toy Soldiers. The range of sizes is interesting; from 1/35 to 1/16. I did not include 1/72 or 1/48 as the figures are too small to have much detail. 1/6 and larger scales are a different catagory of collecting. The 70mm Tamiya figure is the same size figure that were standard in Europe in the 1930's and manufactured by Hausser and Lineol.

 

[theBaron]

...I did not include 1/72 or 1/48 as the figures are too small to have much detail...

You may want to reconsider. I disagree with your statement, and I suspect that there are others who will as well. There are very detailed figures available, that have very good detail. There have been such figures for many years.

Prost!
Brad

 

[katana]

Thank you for the information. I have some Warhammer 36mm knights that are very good and the TCS 28mm figures are well done too. I do not have suitable examples in 1/72 or 1/48 to include in the graph at this time. I am sure someone with a larger collection than could do a far more extensive and professional size comparison graph. I also tried to stay within one range of uniform type to avoid size confusion due to variations in headgear. The WB Fallschirmjager is the excepton as I did not have another 60mm figure. Most 60mm figures are actually 66-68mm except for WB and First Legion, as you probably know.

 

[hotel3alpha]

Katana,

Man thank you for the reference! Need more of those. Love Bellevue Washington...magnificent city.

John from Texas

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Great Reference guide ...thanks for posting.
A_C:salute::

 

[bradleyl30]

This is great. Would be very helpful to have a few more manufacturers included such as newer Britains, FL, K&C and TGM

 

[katana]

I do not have any First Legion or Thomas Gunn figures I can include in the chart. I encourage anyone with a larger collection to use this format and expand it to other manufacturers. Treefrog Treasures has access to a large variety of figures and such a chart posted by them would be a great aid to their customers in visualizing figure size. I am thinking of doing a similar chart for armor. Panther tanks from 1/72 to 1/18 scale. I have a Panther in each scale, so I could do it with a mix of various manufacturers. Let me know if you think an armor photographic scale chart would be useful.

 

[Major Busgen]

I agree completely. It would be a great help to see comparison Napoleonic figures from all those matte manufacturers listed on the forum page.
I know comparison pictures have been shown before but I (and other new collectors) would appreciate some more.
Thanks.

 

[Phantom Warrior]

I agree completely. It would be a great help to see comparison Napoleonic figures from all those matte manufacturers listed on the forum page.
I know comparison pictures have been shown before but I (and other new collectors) would appreciate some more.
Thanks.

Comparison of K&C, TGM and FL NAPs standing figures.

The first figure is a basic K&C (in pink), then an older TGM figure, then a just released TGM Landwehr figure and finally an FL figure. Clearly the size of TGM NAPs has changed.

Terry

 

[katana]

I would like to see a side by side comparison between the W. Britains and First Legion Fallschirmjager.

 

[hotel3alpha]

Hey Katana,

Why don't you just be the size comparison go to guy/expert. I mean it sounds kinda sexy...yes?

John from Texas

 

[katana]

I have a very modest collection; insufficient to provide an adequate number of figures for reference. A distributor like Treefrog Treasures has much greater resources available over many product lines. I think it would be great to have photograpic figure size reference charts for each major area of collecting; Greeks, Romans, Medieval, Renaissance, English Civil War, Revolutionary War, Napoleonic Wars, Civil War, Indian Wars, WW I, WW II, Korean War etc. The project would be viable if done as part of a book on Toy Soldiers. The effort involved would be repaid through sale of the book.