Scaling

A note re: scaling —

• A six-foot (1800mm) man at 1/56 would be 32mm tall. At 1/48 scale, he should be 37.5mm tall.
• A 28mm 6-footer would be more like 1/64 scale.
• A 1/72 scale 6-foot gent should actually be 25mm tall, so at least there's _one_ of the popular scales that is what it says on the tin.
• A 20mm figure scales out to 1/90 scale.
• At 1/100 scale, 6-foot men should be 18mm tall.
• A genuine 15mm tall figure scales to 1/120 scale.

All this is all very well, though it's not going to make one jot of difference to the people who are heavily invested in their "20mm" 1/72 scale wargames forces.

The arguments about what a given millimetre-sizing means are perennial, but basically fall into one of two camps: either

• a figure is measured from the soles of its feet to its eyes (to remove the possibility of error through measuring headgear of different sizes) 

or

• a figure is measured from the sole of its feet to the top of its head, ignoring any headgear.

The effect is that different manufacturers create figures of quite different heights from those of other manufacturers, and market them under the same supposed millimetre size. It's all a complete shambles, and I think the idea of describing figures by some arbitrary and highly mobile mm-size is an absolutely terrible one.