"Objective grading of Miniature Lines" Topic

I'm inspired by this: link
specifically the information table and ratings part.

Generally when you ask for recommendations of a figure line you get a person's personal favourite, sometimes with some comments.

Is there a set of measurements for metal figure ranges anywhere e.g. historical accuracy, anatomical accuracy, moulding quality, completeness of range, number of poses per item and so on?

Would people use this if it was created?

mainly28s.com is rather good for 28mm gamers :)

No. I look for full color, action pix on the web, either provided by vendors or gamers. A good example is Jeff Jonas' AncientBattles site. The very dry kind of technical review just doesn't provide enough info nor inspiration.

Link
ancientbattles.com

Nothing really in depth out there. The now defunct Courier and MWAN Magazines used to do some pretty good reviews.
link

The Courier used to use The "Barrett Scale": link
This was useful if you planned on mixing manufacturers.

I would say the best out there right now is the effort put forth by our very own Scale Creep: link

Amazing enough there are two excellent sites for 10mm collectors: link
madaxeman.com/index.php

To answer your question. In a word absolutly!

To a degree figures are artistic so there will always be a (quite high?) degree of subjectivity about anyone person's feelings about a figure range.

I'd rather see them myself. I've seen some pretty bad figures (and owned some) – some looked comic bookish when they were supposed to be serious and some were just goofy (poorly sculpted, poorly proportioned, both). Heck, a couple of years ago, I purchased some brand new 15mm historical casts sculpted by an artist people raved about that looked more like apes than people (legs are too short, arms are too long, faces look like monkeys, etc.). Yet the company that produces them is still proudly selling them, touting the artists name. I also brought to the attention of one company that their artist made a mistake in the scupt – it had a crossstrap that didn't have anything at the end of it. They made an excuse that it was for attaching a separate, optional piece. If that was true, the artist still made a mistake because that particular configuration was never carried historically. Nope, I'd rather see them myself.

There are standards in place for comparison. But most gamers have favorites and dislikes. Sometimes it may not have anything to do with sculpting other times it does.

factors like relationships with companies or their owners, preferences for a particular scale (25mm-15mm-6mm), availability, and price. many subjective factors and more.

Sometimes it is about sculting, some gamers prefer high detail, other like easy to paint, some look at flash and ease of mounting, others do or do not like many parts to work with.

The very dry kind of technical review just doesn't provide enough info nor inspiration.

PSR is a very solid reference for plastic figures. Full colour action pics often hide the sort of ridiculousness Sundance describes.
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Tim