"An interesting perspective on scale" Topic

Gleaned this photo from a user on the Wargames Factory forum"

An interesting view on the variability of the human form. Seeing this makes it easier to justify different sculpting styles.

And I do bring it up when ever someone complains about scale creap or does this manufacturer match that manufacturer.

Forced perspective is great isn't it? Thr guys on the left are closer to the camera. At lesst a bit. Personally a little scale difference does not bother me though.

Sweet! My 25mm sikhs will look fine next to my 28mm British.

I think this is a fine example of scale creep. Really, what are these manufacturers thinking?

Seriously folks, really interesting picture, it definitely puts things, literally, in perspective.

Yep, there's a big variety in the human form and I am not too annoyed if some of my toy soldiers are taller or shorter, fatter or skinnier than others.

You'll notice that their weapons are all the same size, though. That can be a real problem (if you are bothered) in mixing manufacturers, or lines within the same manufacturer. The rifles of my Warlord metal Red Devils are about 5x as thick as the rifles of my Warlord plastic Brit soldiers. I'm not particularly fussed, though, as long as they look good.

Of course the length of their rifles is another thing entirely.

Of course the length of their rifles is another thing entirely.

Hey, I don't ask, they don't tell.

Heads look almost exactly the same all along the line (just the physiques vary) ..

Plus what Lentulus said (and Dynaman8789 – the bit about where they stand: we did that to the smallest of our group in college … he hates that picture, it makes him look like a midget)

This picture of reenactors also shows the ranges of shapes and sizes of the human frame. And the heads are definitely not all the same size.

Heads look almost exactly the same all along the line (just the physiques vary)

And the hands and the relative proportions of legs, arms etc. People vary but they do not vary in a completely random way, rather according to a bell curve. While it's true some nations are smaller than others on average the difference is not as great as depicted in this photograph, which has obviously been staged for effect.

shows the ranges of shapes and sizes of the human frame

More the effect of adipose tissue than frame. People vary but they cluster around the average.

In my experience when you deploy lots of toy soldiers on a well sceniced table many of the faults and flaws that are painfully obvious when looking at a handful of figures disappear.

I once played an entire game against a bunch of Indians that had only been primed and flesh washed. I didn't realize they hadn't been properly painted until the game was over.

That same game featured Redoubt giants vs Conquest shrimps. The Redout probably massed 3x what the Conquest did, taller, thicker, bulkier. It didn't show on the table either.