"Wargame Figure Scale Madness on the Madaxeman Podcast" Topic

This week the podcast that triggered the discussion about how much wargame figures should cost shamelessly attempts to trigger another discussion about the wild inconsistencies of wargames "scales", this time as part of our new regular weekly feature "I'm Sorry, I Think You're an Ar**" featuring a fully motivated Adam who approaches the delicate subject of "wargames figure scales" with much the same finesse as a WW2-vintage M16 quad 20mm AA half track might bring to the art of making an omlette.

There is also a whole slew of actual proper wargaming podcast-type content, including a discussion about how to cheat when painting tartan, Danish infantry coat colours, whether hobbits featured in the ACW, as well as a first look at the new O Group rules, a quick flirt with how to make money selling rats on eBay, what basing might look like in ADLG v4, the merits of waterslide vs LBMS transfers, and a chat about how big Victrix horses (and specifically their ar**s) actually are.

Normal service is resumed however when we get onto the topic of identifying suspicious badgers when they are in ambush, in a section in which Adam uses his newfound knowledge of honey badgers to make his pitch to replace David Attenborough in the BBC presenter roster. We also discuss gearing up for competitions again, how to buy cycle wheels succesfully, whether "Tirpitzness" is best as an adjective or an adverb, and how to paint eyes on small scale figures.

The aftermath of ISITYAA leaves Andy's Quiz somewhat floundering as a quivering wreck on the floor, with Andy barely capable of coming up with a subject matter for this week's question. Instead he simply mutters the gnomic phrase "Words" before sloping off back into his techno dungeon in the heart of the French undergound Le Disco scene once again.

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Isn't 'scale' for scale modelers that put hundreds of hours in ONE Tamiya 1/48 model of a F14 D Tomcat VF-101 Grim Reapers with weathering?
And those often strange and bizarre anatomically inconsistent monstrosities of toy soldiers for grown up boys playing war?
At the same time laughables and loveables I already described elsewhere:
TMP link

Definition of 25mm miniatures scale wise:

Head and hands about 1/35, weapons nearly 1/25 in two directions but never in the third at the same time, torso 1/48, legs and arms 1/55 but not always on both sides of the sagittal plane.
Scale of the frontal and sagittal axis differs by about 15% depending on the skills of the caster.

Add between 1mm and 10mm for 28mm/32mm etc. depending on your customer base segmented by age, disposable income, nearsightedness (I admit, they are associated.) and your genre of fiction.
Be it science fiction, hysterical, historical or other fantasy miniatures.
(Allthough nobody would ever dare to admit it, they are more or less the same.)

And yes, allthough personally I do not like them for the most part, I rather tolerate technically well sculpted and as such intended over-the-top fantasy and sf models, the like Tango linked here in better times, than out of sheer sculpting incompetence, cheapness and inferior casting technology resulting historical miniatures wich I even like.
I have, e.g. a heart for Dixon miniatures.
Highly recommended.
That is the range of overweight Tyrion Lannister Dwarfs cloned over the centuries and genres, in case you don't know them.
Lovely and practical but at least anatomically pure fantasy.
And there are many such ranges out there.

Allthough, of course they did get better over the last years, I admit.