"Musket length" Topic
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| 14Bore | 01 Oct 2016 11:21 a.m. PST |
Painting today again I noticed 15mm figures muskets, from just about every manufacturer are not long enough. I have a Brown Bess replica and the thing comes up to my shoulder, the figures I'm painting have carbines at best. |
| clibinarium | 01 Oct 2016 12:15 p.m. PST |
Depends on how much attention is being paid to detail by the sculptor. If I have muskets to do I try to get an exact length, which with the internet isn't too hard to do with Napoleonics.
Earlier or obscure periods can be harder, then you have to come to an estimation from a relation to human height according to whatever illustrations are available; "up to my shoulder" as you put it. There's a fair bit of room for error there, but you can get it to "look right" that way. |
Sho Boki  | 01 Oct 2016 1:27 p.m. PST |
French musket must be 15mm long in 15mm scale, plus bayonet. |
| Cerdic | 02 Oct 2016 5:35 a.m. PST |
So that is why 15mm is called 15mm? All that 'to the eyes' stuff is just nonsense! |
| Sho Boki | 02 Oct 2016 6:13 a.m. PST |
Not nonsense, the French musket must be "to the eyes" of average soldier. ;-) |
| attilathepun47 | 02 Oct 2016 8:54 a.m. PST |
I suspect that most muskets are depicted much too short not because of carelessness, but for technical reasons. In the smaller scales a musket barrel of proper length would be very fragile, and probably difficult to cast too. But it is very annoying from a visual point of view to have the muskets so obviously wrong! |
| Winston Smith | 02 Oct 2016 9:40 a.m. PST |
Doesn't bother me at all. |
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paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
