Reply To: Just Tell the Truth!

[General Slade]

Hi Nick,

I think you are right about the rationale behind it but frankly it has always struck me as pretty nonsensical.  I flat out don’t believe that anyone capable of sculpting a miniature is unable to tell where the top of the head of a figure is just because that figure is wearing a hat.

I also can’t see why anyone would measure a figure from anywhere other than from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head.

Personally, I think  a lot of it is down to the vanity of certain sculptors and manufacturers. They want to be able to claim that their figures are more detailed than the competition and they hate to admit that the main reason for this is that their figures are a heck of a lot bigger.

The one I find it hardest to get my head around is GHQ. They  pride themselves on making accurate 1/285th vehicles and then they match them up with infantry that are massively out of scale.  And apparently the reason they do this is that it allows them to make the infantry more detailed. If they want to do that why not just make the tanks bigger as well?