Re: Math/Scale Question

On Jul 15, 7:45 am, "Val Kraut" <marv...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Part of the problem is figures versus mechanical things like tanks. The
military miniatures (figures) were popular in what was called 54mm scale.
That is the distance from the base to the eyes was 54mm. I believe this kind
of measure was selected because head gear differed greatly in height - kepi
versus bearskin hat as an example. Then much later military equipment
standardized in scales like 1/32 and 1/35. Close to 54mm but not exactly.
Many today refer to 54 mm as 1/35th - the figures are scaled to go with the
tanks. The war game folks used smaller figures - and many of them - they
called it 25 mm. Again selected independently of the 1/N scales. So its a
matter of coming as close as you can. Scaling against a "standard height" as
mentioned by other posters is the only way I know. But for 54 mm then you'd
have to scale height of the figures eyes. Which is probably less than 6
feet. There were some interesting early sets I can remember when Tamiya
scaled British troops the same as Japanese and they all looked too short.
Then they overcorreceted with a set of 8th army infantry that looked like
tall bean poles. - I also remember some sets where you couldn't match with
each other - the figures were the same height - but the equipment was of
different sizes. At any rate the formula provided in the earlier post is
probably the best way to go.

Val Kraut

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I was terrible at algebra.

Anybody here know the answer to this one:

20 mm is equal to 1/76 scale

25 mm is equal to 1/72 scale

28 mm is equal to what?

TIA,

Tom- Hide quoted text -

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1/64 scale it is. I think that the scale is a bit too large to fit
1/72-1/76 figures. The buildings and diorama items such as trenches
should look right.

I think that the equipment worn/carried by the figures would look out
of scale, especially if used with 1/72 scale items, even worse with
1/76 items.

Thanks guys,

Tom

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